Buster Blader Deck #772881 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Blue-Eyes end-boards (Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit Dragon, Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon) reached through Blue-Eyes searchers, Fusion, and Synchro summons; Buster Blader Destruction Sword line via Buster Blader, Dragon Buster Destruction Sword and Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Tuner (Sage with Eyes of Blue, Maiden of White, Effect Veiler, Buster Whelp) or use Wishes/Melody to find a Blue-Eyes starter, then go to Synchro or Fusion; hand traps held for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler and Nibiru to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Blue-Eyes searchers and Extra Deck summons
• Recovery: Maiden of White and Mausoleum of White recur from the GY; Wishes for Eyes of Blue banishes from the GY to equip a Blue-Eyes monster
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan in the evidence; this is an Inferred gap, not a measured one

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system under the Midrange profile: it reliably opens Blue-Eyes access through three Blue-Eyes searchers and about 0.81 odds of at least one searcher in an opening five (Inferred hypergeometric estimate), but only about 0.23 odds of a Blue-Eyes White Dragon starter. Interaction is dense, with 11 hand traps and 10 removal-text cards giving strong end-board and going-second answers. Consistency is held back by hand-trap and Maiden of White dead-card risk, Chaos MAX Blue-Eyes lacking its Chaos Form enabler (not in the list), and a Semi-Limited copy overrun that makes the list Illegal. No points were given for OCG archetype popularity, and card scores were not averaged. The Illegal status caps this to a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 46. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflict / unenabled Extra card (-2); hard garnet burden (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*51 + 0.20*46 = 50.0; modifiers -10 gives 40; Illegal-list cap gives 35 (theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power null (provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.23 · 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 suite (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler, Nibiru)
• Three Blue-Eyes searchers at 3 copies each give access to the engine
• Large Extra Deck with Blue-Eyes Ultimate and Neo Blue-Eyes end-boards

Weaknesses

• List is Illegal: Ash Blossom at 3 copies exceeds the Semi-Limited limit of 2
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Chaos MAX Dragon is dead without Chaos Form
• Sub-archetype spread is wide, with a 0% exact-name archetype core

Critical choke points

• Single Blue-Eyes White Dragon starter: 2 copies, about 0.23 odds in opening five
• Buster Blader Destruction Sword line depends on one Buster Blader

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is 3 copies vs a Semi-Limited limit of 2 (Illegal); Main 41 and Extra 14 are within size rules; Side 0 is within the 0-15 range; Deck contains 0 exact-name archetype copies (purity 0%)
• Observed: Usage statistics show Blue-Eyes core presence; no board data
• Inferred: Opening-hand access and brick estimates from hypergeometric probabilities; Structural score and dimension scores from text and composition
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample or tournament link)
• Data gaps: Legality is Illegal (Ash Blossom 3 copies vs Semi-Limited limit 2); the score is theoretical/structural-only usage statistics missing core cards lists Blue-Eyes Tyrant Dragon, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit Dragon, Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, Spirit with Eyes of Blue, Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon, Buster Blader the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman, Stardust Sifr, Crimson Dragon, Hieratic Seal, Protector Whelp and Buster Dragon as absent, but they are present in cards[] as Extra Deck entries; the usage ref matching for Extra Deck cards looks broken, so this evidence was not used as a missing-core signal One main-deck passcode (23995346) could not be resolved to a card and is counted as main No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No Side Deck registered; post-side plan is unknown No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample