Fire King Deck #773033 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fire King boards (Garunix, Kirin, Ponix, Ulcanix) that trade into large Fire King monsters and Garunix Eternity, with Link and Fusion finishers such as Promethean Princess and Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed; Mulcharmy card advantage and Dark Time Wizard fusion access, which convert a stalled board into card advantage and a 3400 ATK body
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Fire King starter (Kirin, Ponix, Ulcanix, or Garunix) that self-destructs or destroys a FIRE monster to search or Special Summon, then extend into Garunix or a Link finisher while holding hand traps (Ash, Ghost Ogre, Droll) for the opponent's first answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Nibiru and Solemn effects in hand to negate the opponent's first starter, then rebuild through the Fire King graveyard recursion (Garunix, Ponix, Rangbali, Arvata)
• Recovery: Fire King graveyard recursion (Sacred Garunix, Ponix, Rangbali, Arvata) and Mulcharmy draw effects refill a hand after the board is cleared
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Fire King starter: the archetype core group gives P(at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.96, and the three-copy Kirin, Ponix, Ulcanix and Garunix lines are all present (Inferred). Its strongest quality is interaction density: Solemn Judgment, Solemn Warning, Droll, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Nibiru, Lightning Storm and Sky Burn give broad negation and removal (Inferred from card text). Recovery through Fire King graveyard recursion and Mulcharmy draws supports the midrange structure. No combo boards were supplied, so the ceiling and median scores come from text reads, not recorded lines, and the score is not derived from averaging card scores. Popularity (core usage around 63%, archetype share not provided) did not earn points. The deck is Illegal under OCG copy limits, so the final score is capped as a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: off_archetype_splash (-2); empty_side_deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal list: no normal Final Contextual score. Structural 60 (Midrange profile) capped to a theoretical/structural-only 35 for the copy-limit violations. Normal formula would be 0.80*60 + 0.20*55 = 59 before the cap. Meta Power provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.04 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core Fire King starters are 3-copy and the archetype core group is about 0.96 to appear in a 5-card opening hand
• Broad interaction suite: Solemn Judgment, Solemn Warning, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Nibiru, Lightning Storm and Sky Burn
• Graveyard recursion (Garunix, Ponix, Rangbali, Arvata) recovers from disruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal under OCG copy limits: Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse and Super Polymerization each run 3 against a limit of 2
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• No combo data, so the ceiling and median are text-only estimates
• Low purity: 50 of 72 archetype-related copies are off the exact Fire King name, with several 3-copy off-archetype pieces

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are over the Semi-Limited limit and will be illegal until one copy each is removed
• Fire King starters all depend on a FIRE monster on the field or in hand to function; a clear board removes the starter route
• Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed needs a Dark Time Wizard monster and a destroyed-monster window, so it is not a reliable finisher

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: 3 copy-limit violations under OCG Semi-Limited rules; Main 57 and Extra 15 are within the OCG size rules; Side is 0; Archetype core group contains 26 copies; exact-name purity is 30.6%; Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies, against a legal limit of 2
• Observed: Core usage stats: Kirin 90%, Arvata 85%, Garunix 82.5%, Ponix 80%; 12 of 19 core cards are present (63.2%)
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter availability ≈ 0.96 for the archetype core group; Interaction density is high based on card text and role flags; Going-first and going-second estimates are based on card text and hand-trap counts
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample was supplied; Format fit (D13) is provisional with no tournament context
• 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 for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rate Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck supplied, so post-side plans cannot be evaluated