Fire King Deck #772316 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±12 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Xyz boss pressure (Garunix Eternity 3000 ATK, Promethean Princess 2700 ATK, Salamangreat Raging Phoenix 2800 ATK) reached through Fire King monster recursion; Dark Hole Dragon and Sacred Fire King Garunix board presence after Fire King monster trades
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Fire King starter (Kirin, Arvata, Ulcanix, Garunix, Ponix), use its destroy-a-FIRE-monster effect to reach a second monster, and Link Summon toward Promethean Princess or Garunix Eternity
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Dominus Impulse) to stop the opponent's first summon, then pivot to Fire King recursion from the GY
• Recovery: Fire King monsters destroyed by card effect can be Special Summoned from hand or GY (Ponix, Barong, Kirin, Garunix), and Oil or the searchers add the next starter
• After siding: Not evaluable: the side deck is empty, so no post-side plan exists in the submitted list

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal because Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse are each run three times against a Semi-Limited cap of two, so it receives only a structural read capped at 35. Structurally the deck opens its engine reasonably: the 24-card archetype core gives about a 96% chance of at least one archetype card in a five-card opening hand (Inferred), and 11 searchers plus Fire King recursion give it a real chance to rebuild after a disruption. Interaction is layered through six hand traps, a Dark Hole and a Torrential Tribute, but the 53-card main deck is only 46% exact-name Fire King with 25 generic and off-archetype copies, and it has no side deck. No combos or tournament results were supplied, so the combo ceiling, floor and meta fit rest on card text alone, and popularity or archetype usage stats did not earn any points. The score was built from the system's consistency, recursion and interaction, not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51.3, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers = 0.80*51.3 + 0.20*40 - 10 = 39.0, then capped at 35 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural read only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.04 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core is dense: 24 Fire King cards give about a 96% chance of at least one in a five-card hand (Inferred)
• Multiple recursion routes let destroyed Fire King monsters come back from hand or GY
• Layered interaction: 6 hand traps, 13 negation texts, Dark Hole, Torrential Tribute and Harpie's Feather Duster

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two cards run over the Semi-Limited copy limit
• Only 45.6% exact-name archetype purity; 25 generic and off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• Empty side deck: no post-side plan exists
• No combo, tournament or meta data, so the consistency and power read rests on text and probabilities

Critical choke points

• Fire King starters that are destroyed by card effect are the main restart point; removing or stopping them cuts recursion
• Only 1 copy each of Harpie's Feather Duster and Monster Reborn; both are Limited
• Only 1 copy each of S:P Little Knight and Hiita-style Extra routes, so Extra Deck access is single-threaded

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 53 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts and the Semi-Limited copy violations for Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse; Card text and stats for all listed cards; Exact-name purity 45.6% and archetype spread
• Observed: Usage stats: 23 archetype rows; 10 of 20 core cards present (50%)
• Inferred: Starter access (96% at least one archetype core card in hand 5); Brick and recursion estimates from text; Interaction breadth from text role hints
• Provisional: Meta fit (D13) and Meta Power (null); Matchup and going-second values
• 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; going-first/second, matchup, brick and OTK rates are Inferred or unknown Side deck is empty; no post-side evidence Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null; archetype label is from the export