Fire King Deck #772917 — 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 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Snake-Eye and Fire King chains that Special Summon Snake-Eyes Flamberge Dragon, Garunix Eternity or Diabellstar-type boards (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Link and Xyz beatdown from the Extra Deck, including Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis and Promethean Princess (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Snake-Eye Ash, Poplar or Birch searches and Fire King searchers to set up a Snake-Eye or Fire King board, protected by Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence) to break the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Snake-Eye and Fire King recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recur Snake-Eye and Fire King monsters from the GY through Snake-Eye Oak, Fire King Island and Sacred Fire King Garunix effects (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan (Verified: Side Deck size 0)

Why it scores here

Scored as a system, not an average of card scores: the deck opens Snake-Eye and Fire King searchers with about 93% probability in the opening 5 (searcher-text group, Inferred), and its core archetype cards have roughly an 85% chance of at least one in hand. Nine hand traps give about 81% at least one hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand (Inferred), which drives the going-second and interaction scores. Output is high-ceiling but combo data is absent, so the median is capped at a conservative estimate and the ceiling is not reported as the average. Popularity (Fire King usage stats) confirms the list is real and accessible but earns no points on its own. The score is capped at 35 because the list is Illegal: four cards exceed their OCG copy limits (Snake-Eye Ash, WANTED, Ash Blossom, Snake-Eyes Poplar), and the deck has no side deck, so no post-side plan can be scored.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.8 Midrange + 0.2 Combo (Midrange primary; hybrid engine with interaction). Structural ≈ 57.7, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Banlist and copy-limit exposure (-6); No side deck (-3); Engine conflicts (-3); Illegal-list cap (-9). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(57.7) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) + ContextModifiers(-12) = 44.2, capped to 35 because legality is Illegal (theoretical/structural read only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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 searcher density (16 searcher-text cards) gives reliable early access to the engine (Inferred)
• Nine hand traps and ten negation-text cards give strong going-second interaction (Inferred)
• Extra Deck threats with 2700 to 3000 ATK provide real closing power (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Four copy-limit violations make the list Illegal as submitted (Verified)
• Only 25.5% exact-name Fire King purity; sub-archetype mixing (Snake-Eye, Diabellstar, Knightmare, Salamangreat, Charmer) weakens engine coherence (Verified composition, Inferred)
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability (Verified)
• No combo data, so the median and ceiling are both unverified (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Snake-Eye Ash and Snake-Eyes Poplar both feed the engine; if the over-limit copies are reduced, the search and special-summon redundancy drops
• Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler are the main protection against the opponent's starter; losing them on the play leaves few answers

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal with four copy-limit violations (Snake-Eye Ash, Ash Blossom, WANTED, Snake-Eyes Poplar); Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 (size rules satisfied for main and extra; no side deck); Archetype purity 25.5% with 41 off-archetype copies; Card stats (ATK/DEF) and banlist status from the card table
• Observed: No recorded boards or combo data in the evidence
• Inferred: Engine access probabilities (searcher 0.935; archetype core 0.851; hand trap 0.808 going second); Interaction and going-second strength read from negation and removal text; Closing power from Extra Deck ATK values and text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null: no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13); no tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first or second, matchup, brick or starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck registered, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Deck title is null in the export