Salamangreat Deck #772788 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, FTK/Alternate-Win
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 18 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Special Summon and Fusion Summon Mementoal Tecuhtlica - Combined Creation (5000 ATK) and Memento Fusion Monsters (Creation King, Twin Dragon) off Memento recursion, then close with large attackers; Mementotlan-Horned Dragon (2850 ATK) and Starving Venom Fusion Dragon (2800 ATK) from Extra Deck access
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Memento starter (Mementotlan Angwitch, Mementotlan Dark Blade, Mementotlan Bone Party, or Mementotlan Fusion) to chain Memento searches and Fusion Summon a Memento Fusion Monster; hold Droll & Lock Bird or Infinite Impermanence for the first opponent interruption
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Nibiru, or Infinite Impermanence to slow the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Memento Graveyard recursion and a Fusion Summon
• Recovery: Recover from the Graveyard with Mementotlan Ghattic, Mementotlan Akihiron, and Mementotlan Shleepy, which add or Special Summon other Memento cards
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck has 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in OCG as built: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization are each run 3 times against a limit of 2, and the Extra Deck holds 18 cards against a maximum of 15. It is labelled Salamangreat, but only 1 card carries that exact archetype name and 69 of 70 cards are off-archetype; the actual engine is a Memento and Fusion package with Mulcharmy and Goblin support. The structural score of about 50 comes from the system: Memento recursion and Fusion access give a plausible floor, while 10 hand traps and several Quick-Play interruptions give some resilience. Popularity did not earn points: the Salamangreat core that usage statistics show is almost entirely absent, so the deck does not reflect the archetype's standard list. No card scores were averaged. The illegal-list cap holds the final score at 30 even though the uncapped formula gives about 35.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox used for the non-engine tech and hand-trap mix. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); extra deck overflow (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + Modifiers = 0.80*50 + 0.20*35 - 12 = 35, capped at 30 because the list is Illegal

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.27 · 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

• Memento recursion gives redundant Graveyard and hand routes
• 10 hand traps and multiple Quick-Play interrupts give layered interaction
• Strong Extra Deck closers (5000, 2850, 2800 ATK) once a Fusion is live

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: 2 copy-limit violations and 3 Extra Deck cards over the limit
• Little exact-archetype coherence: 1.4% purity and 69 off-archetype copies
• No side deck
• Heavy reliance on Fusion access, with no alternate win if Fusion is disrupted

Critical choke points

• Fusion Summon access depends on Mementotlan Fusion, Super Polymerization (over limit), and Memento monsters in hand or field
• Memento card recursion depends on Graveyard Memento monsters, so one early wipe can leave the Graveyard empty

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Copy-limit violations for Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization; Extra Deck count of 18 exceeds the OCG maximum of 15; Card text and stats for all listed cards; Archetype purity of 1.4% and sub-archetype spread
• Inferred: Starter and brick probabilities from hypergeometric estimates; Interaction density from card text and role flags; Structural dimension scores and profile weights
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample exists; Matchup coverage (D13) is provisional
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so the combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and pilot match records are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second or matchups Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null and the archetype label does not match the card composition