Salamangreat Deck #773093 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 33/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fire King boss beatdown (Garunix / Legendary Fire King Ponix recursion) backed by hand-trap interaction, but the Salamangreat engine that should drive it is absent; Dragon that Devours the Dogma / Ecclesia Synchro boss, which is largely dead without Fallen of Albaz in the Extra Deck
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Fire King starter (High Avatar Kirin, Courtier Ulcanix, Ponix) and search via Fire King Island or Ponix; the hand carries 3x Ash Blossom and 3x Evenly Matched as cover
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Evenly Matched, Droll and Solemn to stop the opponent's summon, then rebuild from Fire King Sanctuary and Island
• Recovery: Mulcharmy draw effects and Pot of Sloth replace cards; Fire King recursion from the GY through Garunix and Kirin
• After siding: Not evaluable: no Side Deck list is supplied, so the post-side plan is absent

Why it scores here

The deck is a Fire King, Jurrac, Mulcharmy and Branded toolbox built around 10 hand-trap and negation cards, not a single engine. Its strongest opening-hand behavior is the Fire King starter set plus Ash Blossom and Evenly Matched, which give it real interaction when going second, where the hand-trap probability is about 0.71. The Salamangreat core is nearly absent (3 of 15 core cards present, and no Salamangreat engine in the Main Deck), so the list does not reliably open or convert a single plan. Several Extra Deck cards that point to Ecclesia and Albaz Dragon need Fallen of Albaz, which is not in the Extra Deck, so those routes are dead and the list is penalized for it. The score is capped as illegal: three cards exceed their OCG copy limits and the Side Deck is empty. Popularity and archetype usage were not credited, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violations (-6); Engine conflict: Albaz and Ecclesia Extra Deck cards without Fallen of Albaz (-3); Empty Side Deck (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); illegal-deck cap applied to the result (structural-only theoretical score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Ten hand-trap and negation cards give real interaction when going second
• Fire King starter density (about 24 cards) gives a recognizable core
• Mulcharmy draw and Pot of Sloth provide card flow

Weaknesses

• Three cards exceed their copy limits, so the list is illegal as built
• No Salamangreat engine in the Main Deck despite Salamangreat in the title
• Ecclesia and Albaz Extra Deck cards are dead without Fallen of Albaz
• Empty Side Deck leaves no best-of-3 plan

Critical choke points

• Fire King starter draw (about 0.25 for 3 copies in a 5-card hand)
• Fallen of Albaz absence blocks the Albaz and Ecclesia routes

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts and size rules; Copy-limit violations: Ash Blossom, The Fallen & The Virtuous, Dominus Impulse each at 3 copies against 2 legal; Hypergeometric draw odds (0.2487 for 3 copies in 5 cards; 0.7115 hand-trap at hand 6); Archetype purity 2.8% exact, 69 off-archetype copies; Core presence 3 of 15 from usage stats
• Inferred: D1 engine accessibility; D2 brick risk from dead hand-trap and Fire King cards; D5 and D7 interaction depth; Going-first and going-second split estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup fit (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 match record absent No Side Deck list: post-side plan not evaluable No win-rate telemetry: going-first and going-second and matchup signals are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied