Code Talker Deck #772629 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Salamangreat Link monsters (Pyro Phoenix, Raging Phoenix, Heatleo) and attack through the board, with Mulcharmy and Salamangreat extenders adding bodies.; Salamangreat Miragestallio and Decode Talker Heatsoul as extra-deck follow-up for board pressure.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Salamangreat starter (Gazelle, Spinny, Foxy, or of Fire), search a Salamangreat monster or Sanctuary, and build toward a Link-4 Phoenix. Hand traps are held for the opponent's first interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched, Nibiru, or Droll & Lock Bird to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild the board through Salamangreat extenders.
• Recovery: Recover from the GY through Salamangreat Falco, Jack Jaguar, Weasel, and Charge, which can return a monster to hand and special summon from the GY.
• After siding: No side deck is listed, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This list is not a Code Talker build. Only one card carries the exact archetype name, and the Salamangreat family (32 copies across the Main and Extra Decks) forms the engine, with Mulcharmy, Forbidden, Book of, Kaiju, and Dominus support. The Salamangreat engine reliably opens a starter in the opening hand (about 0.67 for the core group in a 5-card hand), and the 13 hand traps give strong going-second interaction (about 0.84 for at least one in a 6-card hand). The score is capped low because the deck is illegal: it runs 3 copies each of Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse (Semi-Limited, 2 allowed) and has 16 Extra Deck cards (limit 15). No combo boards, win-rate data, or tournament link exist, so the floor, median, and ceiling are not measured. Archetype popularity did not earn points, and the score was not built by averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox secondary, disclosed and not blended numerically. Structural ≈ 48.5, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: illegal list cap (-12); banlist exposure (0). Final formula: Illegal cap: pre-cap 0.80*48.5 + 0.20*40 = 46.8; modifiers -12 gives 34.8; capped to 30 for an illegal list (theoretical/structural only). Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.67 · 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 hand-trap and negation package (13 hand traps, 16 negation-text cards) gives strong going-second interaction.
• Salamangreat engine has several starters and recursion routes, so single-card dead hands are less common.
• Link-4 Phoenixes at 2800 ATK give a real closing threat from the Extra Deck.

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: over-limit Semi-Limited cards and an Extra Deck of 16.
• Almost no Code Talker core (1 exact-name card), so the deck is an off-archetype Salamangreat list with an archetype name it does not run.
• No side deck, so there is no post-side plan.
• Low main-deck compactness: 26 distinct cards with many singles and tech slots.

Critical choke points

• The Salamangreat starter pool depends on a few 3-copy cards, so a single missing starter can stall the turn-1 plan.
• Link-4 Phoenix lines require a specific Link-3 base, so losing that base removes the main closing route.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against an OCG limit of 2.; Extra Deck holds 16 cards against a maximum of 15.; Main Deck holds 52 cards, within the 40-60 range.; Exact-name archetype purity is 1.5% (1 of 68 non-Extra copies).
• Inferred: Starter access is about 0.67 for the Salamangreat core in a 5-card hand.; Going-second hand-trap coverage is about 0.84 in a 6-card hand.; Brick rate and interaction quality are estimates from card text.
• Provisional: Meta power is null because no dated metagame sample exists.; Matchup fit and side-deck adaptability are unmeasured.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link: archetype meta share and pilot match record are absent. No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup, and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown. Meta power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample. No side deck is listed.