Assault Mode Deck #772159 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Combo
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro Summon into a large Synchro boss (Shooting Majestic Star Dragon, Centur-Ion Auxila, Stardust Dragon/Assault Mode) and protect it with Negates and hand traps.; Assault Mode Activate tribute line into Assault Mode Synchro monsters, using Psi-Reflector and Assault Lich to put Assault Mode Activate in hand.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Synchron/Junk starter (Junk Synchron, Stardust Synchron, Assault Synchron), search a Synchron or Junk monster, and Synchro Summon into a board boss.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence) to interrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Synchro.
• Recovery: Recover through GY-based Synchron effects (Junk Synchron and Scrap Synchron revive from the GY) and searchers (Junk Converter, Full-Speed Warrior, Psi-Reflector, Assault Sonic Warrior) that refill the hand.
• After siding: No Side Deck in the export, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games (Inferred from the export, not from match data).

Why it scores here

The deck opens a Synchro line reliably: 18 searcher-text cards and an 84% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand give it a steady start (Inferred). Its strongest value is interaction: 11 hand traps, several Quick-Play negates and destroy effects, and a 72% chance of holding a hand trap on the draw, which keeps the engine alive through disruption. Its closing power comes from Synchro bosses at 3000 to 4000 ATK, and the scores come from consistency, interaction and closing power on the system as a whole. The list has no combo data and no tournament data, so combo output and matchup fit stay at neutral/provisional values. Popularity was not credited and card scores were not averaged; the score is held down by the scattered archetype base (about 5% exact-name purity), the absence of a side deck, and a high-skill, multi-step line.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Engine conflicts / scattered archetype base (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*63.08 + 0.20*60 - 3 = 59.46, rounded to 59

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.84 · 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 interaction suite: 11 hand traps, several Quick-Play negates and destroy effects.
• Multiple searchers (18 searcher-text cards) and Synchron GY recursion keep the hand refilled.
• Strong Synchro closers at 3000 to 4000 ATK.

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation.
• Scattered archetype base (about 5% exact-name purity) causes engine conflicts.
• Multi-step tribute and Synchron sequencing is error-prone.

Critical choke points

• Assault Mode Activate is a single copy and gates the Assault Mode line.
• Synchro summoning depends on a Synchron/Junk starter plus a Tuner in the same hand.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 60 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; Main 40-60, Extra 0-15, Side 0-15 for ocg.; Reinforcement of the Army (Limited) runs 1 of 1 legal copy; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (Semi-Limited) runs 2 of 2 legal copies.; Composition: 25 singletons, 10 two-of, 5 three-of in Main; 15 Synchro monsters in Extra.; Hypergeometric draw figures recomputed and consistent with the evidence pack.
• Observed: Usage stats: 65.2% of the 23 archetype-core cards are present in this list.
• Inferred: Starter access, brick rate and interaction density are text-based estimates.; Going-second strength from hand-trap density.; Consistency estimate combines searcher density and starter count.
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link.
• 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 in YGOVN; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. No Side Deck in the export, so post-side performance cannot be assessed.