Tri-Brigade Deck #772360 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Lunalight Dancer monsters (Liger Dancer 3800 ATK, Sabre Dancer 3000 ATK, Leo Dancer 3500 ATK) from 9 Fusion monsters in the Extra Deck, enabled by Lunalight searchers and Polymerization; Link and Xyz pressure (Outer Entity Nyarla, Brotherhood of the Fire Fist - Tiger King, W:P Fancy Ball) and Mulcharmy draw-based attrition
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Lunalight searcher (Gold Leo, Black Sheep, Kaleido Chick or Masquerade) and a Polymerization path to a Lunalight Dancer; the opening hand must also hold a hand trap to protect the line
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Infinite Impermanence to stop the opponent's first summon, then rebuild the Lunalight line from the GY through Luna Light Perfume and Lunalight Yellow Marten
• Recovery: Lunalight monsters returning from the GY and banish-based recursion (Perfume Dancer, Silver Hound, Emerald Bird) rebuild a board after one interruption, but the 13-card hand-trap suite leaves little room for a second threat
• After siding: Not evaluable: the side deck is empty, so no post-side plan exists in this list

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: its Lunalight searchers (18 searcher-text cards, P(at least one searcher in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.87) give it a fairly reliable route to a Fusion Summon, and its 9 Fusion Monsters give it a high ceiling in the Liger and Sabre Dancers. Its 13 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards make it hard to interact with, which supports going-second and mid-turn play. Those strengths are reduced by a large brick risk (the list relies on archetype-specific Lunalight cards that may not be in hand), a complex multi-step line (pilotability 40), and an empty side deck. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype is labelled Tri-Brigade, but the list runs only one Tri-Brigade card and is almost entirely Lunalight, Mulcharmy and generic staples, while three of the five Tri-Brigade core cards are missing. The score is not an average of the card scores. Because the list is illegal (Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against a limit of 2), the normal Final Contextual score is capped at 20 and this evaluation is structural-only, with no recorded combos or tournament data.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (Semi-Limited copies over limit) (-4); No side deck (-3). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*60 + 0.20*45 - 7 = 50 pre-cap; capped at 20 because the deck is Illegal (structural-only evaluation)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · 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 searcher suite (18 searcher-text cards) gives high P(≥1 searcher in opening hand)
• Nine Fusion Monsters with strong ATK (Liger Dancer 3800, Sabre Dancer 3000) give a high ceiling
• 13 hand-trap cards and 14 negation-text cards provide layered going-second interaction

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against a legal limit of 2
• Empty side deck: no post-side plan in best-of-3
• Archetype label (Tri-Brigade) does not match the list, which is mostly Lunalight (29 cards) with only one Tri-Brigade card and three of five core cards missing
• Heavy reliance on Lunalight-specific Fusion chains, so pilot error is costly

Critical choke points

• Polymerization / Lunalight Fusion access: most of the Dancer routes depend on the Fusion Spell and a Lunalight searcher in the same hand
• Hand-trap density is high, so a hand with only hand traps and no starter is a dead hand

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse are each run 3 times against a legal limit of 2; Main 55 / Extra 14 / Side 0 are all within the OCG size rules; Limited cards (Droll & Lock Bird, Foolish Burial, Harpie's Feather Duster, S:P Little Knight) are each run once, which is legal; Archetype spread: Lunalight 29, generic 22, Mulcharmy 6, Dominus 3, Polymerization 2; exact Tri-Brigade purity 1.4%; Extra Deck: 9 Fusion, 3 Link, 2 Xyz
• Observed: Usage stats: 2 of 5 Tri-Brigade core cards present; missing Arms Mouser (54.5%), Springans Kitt (51.5%), Ferrijit (51.5%)
• Inferred: Consistency estimates (P(≥1 searcher) ≈ 0.87, archetype core ≈ 0.32, hand-trap group ≈ 0.82) from the hypergeometric draw table; Going-first and going-second power are estimates from card text and the draw table, not from match results; Lunalight Fusion chains are the main ceiling, based on card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup coverage and format fit (no tournament or meta-share data)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null, so the deck name is unknown side deck is empty, so post-side behaviour is not evaluable