Gold Pride Deck #772120 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro/XYZ/Fusion boss monsters (Ukiyoe-P.U.N.K. Amazing Dragon x2, P.U.N.K. JAM Dragon Drive, Adamancipator Risen - Dragite, Gold Pride - Pin Baller) reached through P.U.N.K. and Gold Pride Tuner/Level-3 bridges (Inferred); Hand-trap disruption (17 hand traps) stalling the opponent's board before the boss lands (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Tuner or Level-3 starter (Noh-P.U.N.K. Ze Amin, Gold Pride - Leon, Effect Veiler) and bridge to a boss while holding one hand trap for the opponent's first activation (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to present a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird) against the opponent's engine, then rebuild through P.U.N.K. recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover from GY through P.U.N.K. JAM Extreme Session, Noh-P.U.N.K. Foxy Tune and Rising Scale special summons and Level-3 Psychic recursion (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck (side_count 0), so no post-side plan exists in this list

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in OCG because it runs three copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a Semi-Limited limit of two, so the score is capped and labelled structural-only. Structurally the deck is built around a dense interaction shell (17 hand traps, 20 removal-text cards) that gives it a going-second plan, and the P.U.N.K. and Gold Pride engine gives reasonable starter access (the archetype core is about 98% likely to show at least one card in a five-card hand, a proxy estimate). The weak points are the absence of any recorded combo boards, so ceiling and median output are text-only inference, and an 18.6% exact-archetype purity with 57 off-archetype copies, which weakens engine coherence. No side deck and no tournament or meta data leave the post-side and matchup dimensions provisional. The score was built from consistency, interaction and going-second strength on the system; it was not derived from averaging card scores, and the popularity of Gold Pride and P.U.N.K. did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange weights used; Stun noted as secondary only. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring x3, limit 2) (-15); No recorded combo boards (-5). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(56) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) = 55, then Illegal cap applied via modifiers to 35; Meta Provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense hand-trap and negation shell (17 hand traps, 9 negation-text cards) for going second
• Strong archetype-core access (Ze Amin x3, Foxy Tune x3, Rising Scale x3)
• Multiple 3000-ATK bosses across Synchro and Fusion

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring x3 exceeds the Semi-Limited limit of 2
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Low exact-archetype purity (18.6%) with 57 off-archetype copies weakens engine coherence
• No recorded combo boards to validate conversion

Critical choke points

• Legal correction to two copies of Ash Blossom is required before any normal score can apply
• Boss access depends on Extra Deck summons that the hand-trap-heavy main may not leave room for

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs legal limit 2; Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within OCG size rules; Gold Pride and P.U.N.K. copy counts from the card list; Extra Deck breakdown: 8 synchro, 3 xyz, 2 fusion, 2 link
• Observed: Archetype usage statistics show high core-card inclusion in this archetype
• Inferred: Starter access ~0.98 proxy from usage core; Hand-trap going-second estimate ~0.90; Interaction density from card text; Midrange strategy label
• Provisional: Meta power (null); Matchup and format fit (D13); Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchups or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics flags S:P Little Knight, Psychic End Punisher, P.U.N.K. JAM FEVER! and others as in_this_deck:false although the cards list shows them in the Extra Deck; the extra-deck list was taken from cards[] and the discrepancy is noted, not resolved deck title is null