Rescue-ACE Deck #772529 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Rescue-ACE boss monsters (Turbulence 3000, Preventer 2800, Fire Engine 2500) reached through Hydrant-protected Rescue-ACE pressure; Rank 4 Xyz Extra Deck monsters (Exciton Knight, Tornado Dragon, Magnum Excalibur) fed by Air Lifter and Skull Meister, which are the only Level 4 monsters in the Main Deck
• Turn 1 (going first): Hydrant / Quick Attacker / Impulse into ALERT! or EMERGENCY! to reach a Rescue-ACE boss, with Air Lifter as a searcher and Hydrant protecting the board
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 10 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Skull Meister, Ghost Ogre) and CONTAIN!/EXTINGUISH! to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through RESCUE! and the GY recursion lines
• Recovery: Recover from the GY via RESCUE!, ALERT!, Rescue-ACE Preventer (banish a Rescue-ACE from the GY) and Turbulence (banish 2 from the GY), with Hydrant and EMERGENCY! re-enabling the field
• After siding: Not defined: the deck runs no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Rescue-ACE starter: the archetype core (27 Main Deck copies) has a 0.98 hypergeometric chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and the 11 searcher-text cards hit about 0.71 of the time (Inferred). Its ceiling comes from the Rescue-ACE boss and GY-recursion chain, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only estimates. It survives disruption well because it runs 10 hand traps, with about 0.74 odds of at least one going second, plus several backrow and monster answers. The score is held back by a 0-card Side Deck, a 14-Xyz Extra Deck where few Xyz have enablers in the Main Deck, and a Main Deck that is about 48% non-archetype staples. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage stats show the core is real and accessible, but they do not add power, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 67, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: Engine conflict (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core Rescue-ACE starters (Hydrant, Impulse, Quick Attacker, Air Lifter) run 3 copies each, so the opening-hand starter rate is very high
• Dense hand-trap and backrow interaction (10 hand traps, plus CONTAIN!, EXTINGUISH!, Typhoon, Cyclone) gives strong going-second resilience
• GY recursion (RESCUE!, ALERT!, Preventer, Turbulence) gives the deck several routes after a board is broken

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck (0 cards) and therefore no post-side plan
• Extra Deck is mostly splash: 14 Xyz, of which few have Main Deck enablers (Utopia, Lswarm, Heroic, Number)
• About 48% of the Main Deck is non-archetype staples and situational cards (Dogoran x2, Harpie's, Mutually Affured Destruction, Dark Hole)

Critical choke points

• Rescue-ACE Hydrant (3 copies) gates the full-strength versions of ALERT!, RESCUE!, CONTAIN! and EXTINGUISH!
• Air Lifter and Skull Meister are the only Level 4 Main Deck monsters, so Rank 4 Xyz summons depend on both
• Diabrocken (3 copies) is the only source of Level 6 monsters for the Rank 6 Xyz (Dragonlark, Wollow)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status; Main 52, Extra 15, Side 0 are within OCG size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 1 copy (Semi-Limited limit 2) and Harpie's Feather Duster runs 1 copy (Limited limit 1); Copy histogram: 11 cards x3, 3 cards x2, 13 cards x1 (Main Deck); Main Deck exact-name Rescue-ACE count is 27 of 52 (51.9%); Usage stats: Rescue-ACE Impulse, EXTINGUISH!, RESCUE!, ALERT!, EMERGENCY!, CONTAIN! at 88.9% inclusion
• Inferred: Starter access: P(>=1 core in 5) = 0.98; searcher access 0.71 (hypergeometric); Brick and dead-card risk from situational Main Deck cards (Inferred semantic read of card text); Ceiling and median output from card text only (no recorded boards); Interaction layering and going-second hand-trap coverage (0.74) from card text and hypergeometric estimates
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample or tournament link); Post-side plan (no Side Deck supplied)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo 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, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Side Deck is empty (side_count 0), so post-side adaptability cannot be measured Meta Power is Provisional: no dated metagame sample supplied