Cyber Dragon Deck #773081 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Fusion/Link/Xyz engine
• 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: Fusion/Link/Xyz boss monsters, chiefly Cyberdark End Dragon (5000 ATK) and Cyber End Dragon (4000 ATK), reached through Cyber Dragon / Cyberdark / Train summon chains (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS and Cyber Eternity Dragon as follow-up bosses if Extra Deck access is achieved (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Cyber Dragon Core for a Cyber Spell/Trap search, then convert the search into a Cyberdark or Cyber Dragon board for a Fusion or Link Summon (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and the Cyber Dragon Nachster / Herz line to disrupt the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Power Bond or Cyber Emergency (Inferred; over-limit Ash makes this plan partly illegal as built)
• Recovery: Regenerate from the GY through Cyberdark Chimera, Cyber Eternal, Superdreadnought Rail Cannon, and Therion King Regulus effects (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has zero Side Deck cards (see data gaps)

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal as built: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run three times against a Semi-Limited limit of two, so the score is a theoretical, structural-only read and is capped at 35. The deck's core engine is only partly present: exact-name Cyber Dragon purity is 23.6%, with 42 of 55 cards off-archetype across Cyberdark, Train, generic and other sub-archetypes, so the engine does not cohere cleanly. Starter access is the main positive: the searcher text hits 26 cards (P of at least one in a 5-card hand is about 0.996) and the Cyber Dragon archetype core is about 93% likely to appear in an opening hand, both Inferred. Resource economy and interaction are reasonable on paper (about 11 removal-text and 8 negation-text cards, plus GY recursion), but no recorded boards exist, so combo floor and ceiling are text-only and Low confidence. The score is not an average of card scores, and popularity of the Cyber Dragon archetype did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 44, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); Engine conflict (-4); Illegal-list cap (0). Final formula: Structural 51.3 (Combo profile) → 0.80·51.3 + 0.20·40 = 49.0 → modifiers −12 → 37.0 → Illegal cap applied → 35 (theoretical / structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.33 · 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 (26 searcher-text cards), so the starter is almost always found
• Real Fusion, Link and Xyz boss options (Cyberdark End Dragon 5000 ATK, Cyber End Dragon 4000 piercing ATK)
• Multiple GY recursion routes for rebuilding after a broken opening

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: three Ash Blossom copies against a limit of two
• Low exact-archetype purity (23.6%) and four competing sub-archetypes
• No Side Deck; post-side plan cannot be evaluated
• No recorded combos, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only

Critical choke points

• Cyber Dragon Core (3 copies) is the only starter with 3 copies; its absence weakens the opening
• Dependence on Power Bond and Fusion/Link access for the closing boss; without Extra Deck access there is no win condition
• Ash Blossom over-limit copy: legal play requires cutting one copy

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2, which makes the list Illegal; Main Deck 41 cards (inside the OCG 40–60 range) and Extra Deck 14 cards (inside the 0–15 range); Exact-name Cyber Dragon purity is 23.6% with 42 off-archetype copies; Side Deck count is 0
• Inferred: Starter access P(at least one Cyber Dragon Core in opening 5) ≈ 0.33 and archetype core ≈ 0.93; Searcher density (26) gives near-certain starter retrieval; Going-second hand-trap coverage ≈ 0.39; Combo plan built from card text only, with no recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit; no tournament link or dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: Illegal list: score is a theoretical, structural-only read No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent One CardIDList passcode (10443957) could not be resolved and is counted as Main No Side Deck cards, so D12 post-side plan is unassessable No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; all consistency values are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample