Dragon Ruler Deck #772463 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±5 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Midrange
• 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/Synchro boss (Chasma, Blaze, Dark Armed, Disaster, Tempest/Blaster via Spectral and Burner chains) pressuring the board; Hand-trap and removal disruption (Twin Twisters, Typhoon, Mulcharmy, Tidal and Tempest bounce/destroy effects) grinding the opponent
• Turn 1 (going first): Starter Spectral or Burner, then search or summon a Tempest/Blaster/Tidal-tier Dragon Ruler and go to Xyz or Synchro boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Skull Meister or D.D. Crow to stop the opponent's first play, then rebuild through Dragon Ruler recursion from the GY
• Recovery: Revive Dragon Ruler monsters from the GY and banishment via Nebulus, Spectral and Chasma effects, plus Tempest and Blaster return loops
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: a Dragon Ruler starter chain (Spectral, Burner, Reactan, Lightning, Nebulus) reaches Tempest, Blaster and Tidal, which search and recur through the GY and banishment, so it opens a functional plan in most hands (searcher-text group P of at least one in a 5-card hand about 0.86, Inferred). Interaction is broad (10 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards, 28 removal-text cards), which lifts end-board and disruption scores. Floor and median output are unmeasured because the deck has no recorded boards, so those scores are text-only and Inferred. Popularity and archetype share did not earn points (no tournament link, and archetype purity is only 12.9% exact-name), and the individual card scores were not averaged. Legality is the main limit: three copies of Sekka's Light against a Limited slot-of-one, and no side deck, so the structural score is capped to 30 under the Illegal rule.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 100% Combo profile; Toolbox noted as secondary strategy only, not blended. Structural ≈ 57.6, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); weak post-side plan (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*57.6 + 0.20*50 - 10 = 46 raw; Illegal deck capped to 30 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · 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

• Dragon Ruler starter-to-searcher chain gives an accessible T1 route in most hands (Inferred)
• Ten hand traps and broad negation/removal text give strong disruption density (Inferred)
• Extra Deck covers Xyz and Synchro bosses at a high ATK (Verified structure)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three Sekka's Light against a Limited slot of one (Verified)
• Off-archetype copies make up 61 of 55 main slots and exact-name purity is 12.9% (Verified)
• No side deck, so no post-side plan at all (Verified)

Critical choke points

• Sekka's Light is a Limited card run 3x; the list cannot be played legally as built (Verified)
• Dragon Ruler starters all need a second Dragon or a specific attribute to proceed (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, Sekka's Light 3 copies vs Limited 1; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 within size rules for ocg; Archetype purity 12.9% exact-name; 61 off-archetype copies; Usage stat: 5 of 6 core Dragon Ruler cards present (83.3%)
• Inferred: Searcher-text group P(at least one in hand5) 0.86; Core group P(at least one in hand5) 0.69; Hand-trap group P(at least one in hand6) 0.72; Disruption and recovery scores from card text; Going-first and going-second scores from D-dimension reads
• Provisional: Meta Power null; Tournament Reliability 50; D13 matchup/format fit 50
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: 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, starter/brick rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck has no side deck, so no post-side evidence deck_name is null in the source record