Armed Dragon Deck #772462 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Xyz/Synchro
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dragon Ruler Xyz and Synchro boss monsters (Chasma, Eclipse, Blaze, Tempest, Blaster) built from Dragon Ruler chain starters and 2800+ ATK beaters; Armed Dragon Xyz and Synchro pressure from Pile Armed Dragon, Armed Dragon Thunder LV3/LV5 and Sangenpai Bident Dragion
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dragon Ruler starter (Burner, Reactan, Lightning, Stream or Spectral) and use its discard-to-summon effect into Blaster, Tempest or Tidal, then Xyz or Synchro on the next turn; without a starter the hand has no reliable T1 line
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 10 hand traps (D.D. Crow, Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit, Skull Meister, Ghost Belle and Haunted Mansion, Nibiru) and Typhoon or Twin Twisters to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through the Dragon Ruler monsters
• Recovery: Dragon Ruler monsters return to the hand at the opponent's End Phase and can be re-summoned from the Graveyard, so a cleared board can be rebuilt; Redox and Tempest are the main recursion pieces
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has zero Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal: three copies of Sekka's Light against a Limited cap of one, so it receives a structural-only score and is capped low. Its engine is a Dragon Ruler chain: three-copy Blaster, Spectral and Tempest are reliable, but the single-copy discard-to-summon starters (Burner, Reactan, Lightning, Stream) make the T1 plan dependent on drawing one of about six cards, with P(at least one three-copy starter in a 5-card opening) of about 0.25 (Inferred). Interaction is the strongest part of the system, from 10 hand traps and a wide removal text set, which gives P(at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand) of about 0.72 (Inferred), and the 2800+ ATK boss monsters close games. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction on the whole system, not from averaging the cards, and not from Armed Dragon's popularity: exact archetype-name purity is 4.3% and the core cards are only 41.7% present in this list, so popularity earned no points. With no combo corpus, no side deck and no meta sample, the floor and median are unmeasured and the score carries a wide band.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); no side deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(51) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 49, then context modifiers (-12) = 37, capped low to 35 for the illegal list; 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

• Broad interaction: 10 hand traps plus Typhoon, Twin Twisters and My Body as a Shield
• Strong boss ATK in the Extra Deck, from Blaster, Tempest, Blaze and Shiina at 2800 to 2900
• Dragon Ruler recursion gives some route redundancy after a board clear

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Sekka's Light is run at 3 copies against a limit of 1
• Starter access is thin: the discard-to-summon starters are mostly single copies
• Weak archetype cohesion: exact-name purity is 4.3% and the core is only 41.7% present
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Dragon Ruler starter draw on T1 (no 3-copy starter in most openings)
• Sekka's Light overage makes the list illegal until corrected

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Sekka's Light is 3 copies against a Limited cap of 1 (OCG BanList); Main 55 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; Zero Side Deck cards; Exact archetype-name purity 4.3%; core presence 41.7%
• Inferred: Starter access probability 0.25 (3-copy starter in a 5-card hand); Hand-trap probability 0.72 in a 6-card going-second hand; Dragon Ruler T1 plan and recursion lines read from card text
• Provisional: Meta and format fit (no dated sample); Going-first and going-second splits
• 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 No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second and matchup rates unknown Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed