Red-Eyes Deck #772646 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Large Synchro/Link Dragon boss (Bystial Dis Pater, Chaos Angel, Red-Eyes Black Fullmetal Dragon, Crimson Dragon) reached through a mixed Bystial/Dragon/Chaos resource chain. Route reliability is Inferred from text only.; Bystial recursion and banish-from-GY Special Summons (Saronir, Druiswurm, Baldrake, Magnamhut) building multiple boards over several turns.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dragon or Bystial starter, use Branded Regained or Etude of the Branded to draw and Synchro, and hold Ash Blossom or Effect Veiler for the first opposing activation. The deck has no single reliable T1 starter, so this line is Inferred and fragile.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Nibiru) to disrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild from the GY through Bystial Saronir or Baldrake. The 6-card hand has the stronger interaction odds, but there is no side deck to adapt it.
• Recovery: Recover through GY-based Bystial and Branded effects (Druiswurm, Saronir, Baldrake, Branded Beast, Dragon Ravine). Recovery depends on the Bystial sub-count, which is only 11 of 55 Main Deck cards.
• After siding: None. The Side Deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck reaches its scores through interaction and a high-ceiling finisher pool, not through a consistent engine. Its 17 searcher-text cards and 11 hand traps give a strong chance of seeing an answer or a search in the opening hand (P≥1 searcher in 5 ≈ 0.86, Inferred), so interaction quality (D7) and closing power (D9) are its best-supported dimensions. Starter access and brick management score low because the 55-card Main Deck mixes Bystial (11), Red-Eyes exact-name (5), Branded, Chaos, Hieratic, Mulcharmy, Starliege and Dragunity cards, with 24 singletons and only 7.1% exact-archetype purity; no single starter is reliable. No combos were recorded, so the ceiling and median (D3, D4) are text-only inference, and the score does not come from averaging card scores. Popularity was not credited: the Red-Eyes label and the 3 core usage cards, of which only Droll & Lock Bird is present, do not make the list strong. The list is Illegal (Ash Blossom at 3 copies vs a limit of 2, and The Bystial Lubellion at 3 copies vs a limit of 1), so the structural score is shown for transparency only and the final score is capped at 25.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflicts (-4); hard-garnet burden (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*48 + 0.20*30 ≈ 44, plus modifiers (≈ -12) gives ≈ 32 uncapped. Illegal-list cap applied: final = 25 (theoretical/structural-only).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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: 11 hand traps, 12 negation-text cards and 26 removal-text cards, including Solemn Judgment and Feather Duster.
• Strong closing package: Chaos Angel, Bystial Dis Pater, Red-Eyes Black Fullmetal and Crimson Dragon are all 3400+ ATK or 3500 ATK.
• High search density (17 searcher-text cards), so most opening hands can find something.

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom and The Bystial Lubellion are over the OCG copy limit.
• No reliable T1 starter; three engines (Bystial, Red-Eyes, Chaos) plus Branded and Dragunity compete for the same slots.
• Empty Side Deck, so no post-side plan in best-of-3 play.
• Exact-archetype purity is 7.1%, so the Red-Eyes label does not describe the list's real engine.

Critical choke points

• Bystial GY-banish Special Summons depend on 11 Bystial cards, and most of their starters are Limited or singletons.
• The Extra Deck relies on Synchro/Link materials from a Main Deck that is 65 off-archetype copies.
• Several engines need a Dragon in the GY or banished zone; without it the boss lines stall.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: OCG Main 55 (40–60), Extra 15 (0–15), Side 0 (0–15); Illegal due to Ash Blossom (3 vs 2) and The Bystial Lubellion (3 vs 1).; Archetype purity 7.1%; Bystial 11, Red-Eyes exact 5, Branded 4, Chaos 3.; Card text for the 17 searcher-text, 11 hand-trap and 26 removal-text cards.; Usage stats: 3 core cards, 1 present (Droll & Lock Bird).
• Inferred: P(≥1 searcher in 5) = 0.8557; P(≥1 hand trap in 6 going second) = 0.7565.; Starter access is fragmented across at least three engines.; Interaction density is high from text (negation and removal text counts).
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link.
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty; no post-side evidence No guides attached (0 mentions) Deck title is null; the deck is identified only by its exported archetype