Dragon Link Deck #772654 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 34/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 51 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz boss pressure (Arc Rebellion Xyz Dragon 3000 ATK, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS 3000 ATK, Time Thief Redoer 2400 ATK) built from Time Thief, Raidraptor and Rokket Xyz lines; Link and Xyz recursion through Raidraptor, Phantom Knights and Time Thief GY effects (text-only, no recorded boards)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter from the Time Thief, Raidraptor or Rokket lines and reach a Xyz; protect it with hand traps and end-board negations (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler) as the opponent turns to act
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 12 hand traps (about 82 percent of six-card hands hold at least one) to negate the opponent's first engine, then convert the surviving Xyz into a board
• Recovery: Recover through GY-based summons (Raidraptor Strangle Lanius, Time Thief Adjuster, Time Thief Bezel Ship, Raider's Wing) and Xyz material attaching from the GY (Time Thief Flyback, Time Thief Chronocorder)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated; the deck cannot adapt between games as built

Why it scores here

The score is built from the deck as a system and is capped because the list is illegal: three copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring exceed the OCG Semi-Limited limit of two, and the list has no side deck. Interaction is the strongest part of the build, with 12 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards and 20 removal-text cards, so most going-second hands carry a disruption piece. Engine access is the weakest part: the 51-card main is spread across four unrelated archetypes (Time Thief 16, Raidraptor 10, Phantom Knights 8, Rokket 7, with 19 generic cards and no Dragon Link card), so the starters compete for the same hand slots and the 3-copy engines reach an opening hand only about 27 percent of the time on the going-first draw. The Xyz boss cards give real closing power, but there are no recorded boards, so the combo floor and median cannot be measured and are inferred from text only. Popularity and archetype share were not used: the archetype stats and tournament context give no meta signal, and card scores were not averaged into the result.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (Ash Blossom x3, limit 2) (-12); Engine conflicts across five sub-archetypes (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 49.6, then context modifiers totalling -16 = 33.6, rounded to 34; the Illegal status caps the result as a theoretical, structural-only score

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

• Dense interaction: 12 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards and 20 removal-text cards
• Boss Xyz options at 2400 to 3000 ATK for closing
• Recursion from the GY across several archetypes gives some resilience after interruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 3 copies against a limit of 2
• Four to five engines split the main deck, so starters are often absent from the opener
• No side deck, so the deck cannot adapt between games
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor, median and ceiling cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• Each Xyz engine needs its own starter; a hand without a starter is mostly hand traps
• One unresolved passcode (10443957) in the Main Deck makes the card list unverified

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 3 copies against a limit of 2; Composition: 51 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; 12 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards, 20 removal-text cards; Probabilities from the hypergeometric draw table; Archetype spread: 66 off-exact-archetype copies
• Inferred: Engine access and consistency estimates from draw probabilities and text; Interaction quality from card text and role tags; Going-second hand-trap coverage from the 0.82 estimate; Closing power from boss Xyz ATK
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no tournament or dated meta sample); Meta power (null)
• 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 One passcode (10443957) in the Main Deck could not be resolved to a card and is counted as main No side deck registered, so best-of-3 adaptability cannot be evaluated No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups, bricks or starters Meta power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied