Machina Deck #772638 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 34/100 (±12 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-summon R.B. Link-3 monsters (The Brute Blues, Shepherd's Crook) and attack through boards using The Brute Blues' second attack and ATK gain from R.B. monsters it points to (Inferred from card text); Sky Striker Ace link monsters with direct attack and GY-count ATK gain (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a conditional special summon (R.B. Ga10 Driller, Ga10 Cutter or R.B. Lambda Blade), link into an R.B. Link monster from the Extra Deck, and use a Spell/Trap to continue; hand traps are held for the second turn (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird and Ga10 Cutter-style negations for the opponent's first combo, then rebuild the link board from the GY via R.B. Operation Test or R.B. Stage Landing (Inferred)
• Recovery: Search with Sky Striker Mobilize, Clockwork Night or Clockwork Knight, recycle R.B. monsters from the GY, and rebuild through R.B. Funk Dock (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan; best-of-3 adaptation is not supported by this list

Why it scores here

The deck can reliably put one interaction layer into play: 7 hand traps and 15 negation-text cards give it strong end-board and going-second interaction, which is the main reason it scores above the floor. Its engine is split across R.B., Sky Striker, Mecha Phantom Beast and Clockwork sub-archetypes with only 0 exact Machina copies, so starter access is weak (P of at least one 3-copy card in a 5-card hand is about 0.34) and many conditional summons conflict with each other. Its Link-3 finishers provide a credible ceiling, but no recorded boards exist, so the floor and median are text-only estimates. The Side Deck is empty and no meta sample exists, so adaptability and matchup fit are scored low and provisional. The score comes from consistency, interaction and the structure of the system, not from averaging individual card scores or from Machina's usage stats. Because Ash Blossom is over the OCG limit, the list is Illegal and the score is capped low as structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine_conflict_and_purity (-4); no Side Deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional), 46 before modifiers; Illegal list capped low via modifiers

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Layered interaction: 7 hand traps and 15 negation-text cards
• Going-second hand traps plus Droll & Lock Bird
• Compact 40-card main with a 15-card Link Extra Deck used by one engine family

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy count on Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring
• No single coherent engine: R.B., Sky Striker, Mecha Phantom Beast and Clockwork compete for slots
• Conditional summons (empty field or R.B.-only field) conflict across cards
• No Side Deck

Critical choke points

• R.B. link-material chain: the Link Extra Deck requires specific Machine materials, and a few 1-copy starters carry the opening
• Going-first hand has a low chance (~0.34) of holding any 3-copy starter

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 against OCG size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 3 copies against an OCG limit of 2; Card text and archetype composition from the resolved list; Usage statistics show the Machina core is absent (15.8% present)
• Inferred: Starter and hand-brick probabilities from the hypergeometric draw table; Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Interaction density from role tags and negation text
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament data)
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck, so post-side performance cannot be scored