Snake-Eyes Deck #772411 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Snake-Eyes boss monsters (Diabellstar, Flamberge Dragon, Doomed Dragon) plus Diabell/Sinful Spoils support, with Link and Xyz boss options in the Extra Deck; Diabellze / Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord large-body finishers, Chaos Hunter and Ultimate Slayer as board-control backup
• Turn 1 (going first): Starter from hand (Snake-Eye Oak or Poplar) into a Snake-Eye search and Snake-Eye Ash, then Diabellstar or Flamberge Dragon. Hit rate per 3-copy starter is about 25% in a 5-card opening (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Artifact Lancea, Dominus Impulse) to stop the opponent's first board, then a Snake-Eye engine rebuild from the Deck or GY
• Recovery: Snake-Eye GY recursion (Oak, Poplar, Ash effects) and Filia Diabell / Small World searches to refill the hand. Recovery depends on the GY-to-Deck loop working, which is not verified
• After siding: None. The Side Deck is empty, so the deck has no post-side plan and cannot adjust to matchups

Why it scores here

This list is scored as a structural, theoretical read only, because it is illegal in OCG: four cards exceed their copy limits (Snake-Eye Ash, WANTED, Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies). The core Snake-Eye engine is present, with about 56% of 5-card openings containing at least one core card and about 44% of openings having no core card (Inferred from hypergeometric estimates). The combo evidence is empty, so the deck's floor, median and ceiling cannot be measured and are inferred from card text only. The mix of Snake-Eye, Diabell, Sinful Spoils, Charmer and Code Talker sub-archetypes dilutes engine coherence, and the empty Side Deck removes any post-side plan. Popularity was not credited: usage statistics show the deck is only partly on the archetype standard core (about 44% core present), and no score was averaged from individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; secondary Combo weights not blended because the combo evidence is empty. Structural ≈ 44, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-7); engine_conflicts (-3); no_side_deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(44) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 42.2; modifiers total -12 -> 30.2; Illegal cap applied -> 25 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.44 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered interaction: 9 hand traps and about 15 negation-text cards
• High searcher density (20 cards) gives T1 access to the engine
• Strong boss monsters (Diabellstar the Black Witch 2500, Snake-Eyes Diabellstar 2800, Doomed Dragon 3000)

Weaknesses

• Four cards over their OCG copy limit, so the list is illegal
• Engine split across Snake-Eye and Diabell with 0% exact-name purity
• Empty Side Deck and no post-side plan
• No recorded combos, so consistency and conversion are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Snake-Eye starter in hand (25% per 3-copy card in a 5-card hand)
• Single-copy Extra Deck bosses (Flamberge Dragon, Diabellstar Vengeance, Snake-Eyes Diabellstar) that cannot be recovered after removal without the GY loop
• Removal or negation of the first starter with no second route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is OCG legal in size (55 main, 15 extra, 0 side); Four cards exceed legal copy limits (Snake-Eye Ash, WANTED, Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse); Side Deck is empty; Archetype purity is 0% exact-name; Card stats and banlist status for all listed cards
• Observed: Usage statistics: core Snake-Eyes cards present in about 44% of archetype decks
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities (starter, core group, hand traps, searchers); Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Interaction density and recovery routes from card text; Scores for all 14 dimensions
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup signals are inferred No guides attached for the archetype Side Deck is empty, so post-side behavior cannot be assessed Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample