Cyber Dragon Deck #772320 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss pressure: Cyber Dragon Nova, Chimeratech Megafleet/Rampage/Fortress Dragon, and high-ATK Xyz/Link bosses, all reached through the Cyber Dragon summon chain (text-only read, Inferred); Off-archetype boss and removal pieces: Chaos Angel, Vallon, Number C101, Therion King Regulus, Bystial Druiswurm/Magnamhut
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Cyber Dragon Core (2 Level, searches a Cyber Spell/Trap), then use Cyber Dragon Nachster/Herz or Cyberdark Chimera for follow-up searches and summons (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) to disrupt the opponent's first board, then stabilise and reach an Extra Deck boss (Inferred)
• Recovery: Cyber Dragon Core can be banished from the GY to Special Summon a Cyber Dragon from the Deck; Cyberdark Claw and Cyber Dragon Herz add GY/Deck recursion (Inferred)
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt in best-of-3 play (Verified: Side Deck size 0)

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected system and not as an average of its card scores. Its engine is reliable on paper: the searcher text is present in about 91% of opening hands (P(>=1 searcher in 5 cards) = 0.915, Inferred), but the Cyber Dragon Core starter is live in only about 25% of opening hands (0.2487, Inferred). Interaction is dense, with 14 hand traps, 17 removal-text cards and 14 negation-text cards, which lifts the endboard and going-second scores. The Extra Deck supplies strong closing bosses, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences and are kept low-confidence. Popularity of the Cyber Dragon archetype did not earn points: only 14.3% of the main deck is exact-name Cyber Dragon, and the 60 off-archetype copies across Cyberdark, K9, Mulcharmy, Bystial and others raise engine-conflict and brick risk. The deck is Illegal (Ash Blossom and K9-17 Izuna at 3 copies against a limit of 2), so the final score is capped at 30 as a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: uncapped 0.80*Structural(57) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-12) = about 43; capped at 30 because the deck fails copy limits. Theoretical and structural-only. Meta Power provisional/null.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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: 14 hand traps, 17 removal-text and 14 negation-text cards
• Searcher access is high (P>=1 in 5 cards = 0.915)
• Strong Extra Deck closing bosses (ATK 2100-3500)
• Multiple GY recursion routes to rebuild after disruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts for Ash Blossom and K9-17 Izuna
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Low archetype purity (14.3%) with mixed engines that conflict
• Starter live in only about 25% of opening hands

Critical choke points

• Cyber Dragon Core as the main Normal Summon starter (3 copies, P>=1 in 5 = 0.2487)
• Engine cards that need 'if you control no cards' or opponent card counts

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom and K9-17 Izuna at 3 copies vs a legal limit of 2; Main 56 / Extra 14 / Side 0 counts; Archetype purity 14.3%, 60 off-archetype copies; Card text for the Cyber Dragon Core, Nachster, Herz and Nova, Chaos Angel and Chimeratech bosses
• Observed: Usage statistics: Cyber Dragon Nova (89.5%), Chimeratech Megafleet (81.6%) and Regulus (78.9%) are archetype-standard cards, and Nova and Megafleet are missing from this list
• Inferred: Starter, searcher and hand-trap hypergeometric odds; Interaction density and endboard read from card text; Going-first and going-second plans and recovery routes
• Provisional: Meta Power and format 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 record absent One passcode (10443957) in the Main Deck could not be resolved to a card No win-rate telemetry; matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample