R.B. Deck #772290 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 48 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link, Fusion and Xyz boards from Cyber Dragon (Sieger, Nova, Chimeratech Rampage Dragon) and R.B. Link monsters, protected by searcher-driven hand traps and negations (Inferred); K9 Xyz and Link pressure (K9-17 Ripper, S:P Little Knight) once the Cyber Dragon or R.B. engine is live (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Cyber Dragon Core or Cyberdark Claw, search an engine piece, and build toward a Link or Xyz board next turn (Inferred, text-only; no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Forbidden Droplet or Cyber Emergency against the opponent's first activations, then Special Summon Cyber Dragon or Cyber Dragon Nachster to rebuild the board (Inferred)
• Recovery: Twenty searcher-text cards plus Clockwork Night, Cyberdark Realm and Speedroid Terrortop refill the hand from the Deck; Cyber Dragon Herz and Cyberdark Wurm can return from GY (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is present (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan in this list; a best-of-3 plan is absent and this is the largest structural gap.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a searcher-driven starter: the probability of at least one searcher-text card in the opening 5 is about 0.94 (Inferred), and the archetype core group is in hand about 0.86 of the time (Inferred). Its interaction package (4 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards, Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Forbidden Droplet and R.B. Next Phase) is broad, so the system scores better on resilience than on raw output. Conversion is only text-inferred because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median stay near the middle of the scale and the floor is not measured. The score is weighed on the whole system (consistency, interaction, Extra Deck coverage), not on averaging card scores, and the popularity of the R.B. archetype earned no points. The deck is Illegal (Ash Blossom and K9-17 Izuna at 3 copies against a limit of 2), so the Final Contextual score is capped at 35 and this evaluation is theoretical and structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox primary with Midrange as secondary; Midrange not separately weighted. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); engine conflicts (-3); data_integrity (-1). Final formula: Structural 54 -> 0.80*54 + 0.20*45 = 52.2; modifiers -8 = 44; capped to 35 because the deck is Illegal (copy-limit violations). Meta Power provisional/null; theoretical/structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.14 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher package (20 searcher-text cards) gives a high chance of a live starter in the opening hand (Inferred)
• Layered interaction: 4 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards and 11 removal-text cards (Inferred semantic read)
• Extra Deck covers Link, Fusion and Xyz routes, so several board shapes are available (Verified composition)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and K9-17 Izuna at 3 copies each (Verified)
• No side deck, so there is no best-of-3 plan (Verified)
• Low archetype purity (16.1%) with 52 off-archetype copies, so the engines compete for slots (Verified composition)
• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are unmeasured (Verified data gap)

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and K9-17 Izuna are the copies that make the list illegal; fixing them is the precondition for any normal score
• Cyber Dragon Core and the Cyber Dragon / Cyberdark searcher chain carries most of the starter reliance

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and K9-17 Izuna at 3 copies against a legal limit of 2 (OCG Semi-Limited); Size counts: 48 main, 14 extra, 0 side; size rules satisfied for OCG; Exact R.B. purity 16.1% with 52 off-archetype copies; Banlist statuses: Droll & Lock Bird, S:P Little Knight and A Case for K9 are Limited at 1 copy each (legal)
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher-text card in opening 5) about 0.94; Core-group brick proxy about 0.14; Going-first and going-second plans are text-derived, not from recorded boards; Interaction strength from card text (negation and removal read)
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; Matchup and format fit (D13) is provisional: no tournament data
• 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 side deck: post-side plan cannot be assessed Passcode 10443957 could not be resolved and is counted as a main-deck card Deck title is null No win-rate telemetry: brick, starter and matchup rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied