Salamangreat Deck #773115 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Beatdown through Fire King and Tri-Brigade boards, closing with Garunix (2700 ATK) and Tri-Brigade Shuraig (3000 ATK) Link/Xyz bodies (Inferred from card text); Fusion/Synchro bosses (The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon) reached through The Fallen & The Virtuous and Fallen of Albaz text (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Fire King or Mulcharmy starter, then convert through Tri-Brigade Kitt/Tenki and a Link Summon; hold Ash Blossom or Solemn Warning for the opponent's first activation (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Play Droll and Lock Bird, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Solemn Warning to stall the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Fire King or Tri-Brigade recursion from the GY (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover from the GY and banish zones via Fire King Avatar monsters, Tri-Brigade Link Summons from banished Beast monsters, and Mulcharmy draw effects (Inferred)
• After siding: None. The deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The score is built from the deck as a system, not from its cards. Two Fire King and Tri-Brigade starters and several Beast-type Link Summon routes give redundant openings and recovery, and the 10 hand traps plus 15 tech and removal cards make interaction dense (D7 80, D8 70). The Extra Deck gives real finishers, with 2700 to 3000 ATK bodies (D9 70). The deck is not a Salamangreat deck: exact-name archetype purity is 1.4%, and only 3 of the 15 core cards from the usage stats are present, so popularity and archetype label earned no points. Brick risk is high, with 21 spells and traps and 14 single copies (D2 45), and there are no combos, so the floor and median are Provisional. The list is Illegal: three cards run 3 copies against a limit of 2, so it does not receive a normal Final score. Its score is capped at 25 and the evaluation is structural-only. The score was not reached by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox primary; Midrange used only for strategy-tag context, not for weights. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist / copy-limit exposure (-8); No post-side plan (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: unclamped 0.80*Structural(56) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-10) = 43; the Illegal cap sets the reported score to 25 and it is structural-only. Meta Power is provisional.

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

• Dense hand-trap and negation package with 10 hand traps and 10 negation-text cards
• Redundant Fire King and Tri-Brigade starters and recursion
• Strong Extra Deck closers at 2700 to 3000 ATK
• Full 15-card Extra Deck with 12 Link monsters for flexible Link Summons

Weaknesses

• Illegal under OCG copy limits: three cards run 3 copies against a limit of 2
• No Side Deck
• High non-starter count (21 spells and traps) and 14 single copies
• Archetype label is misleading: exact purity 1.4%, and only 3 of 15 usage-stat core cards are present

Critical choke points

• Any single hand trap or Solemn Warning used in response can stall the opening, and Solemn Warning is an illegal third copy until trimmed
• The Link Summon chain depends on Beast, Beast-Warrior and Winged Beast monsters in the GY or banish zone

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal under OCG copy limits: Ash Blossom, The Fallen & The Virtuous and Solemn Warning run 3 copies against a limit of 2; Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0 (within size rules); Archetype purity 1.4%; core-card presence 3 of 15
• Inferred: Engine redundancy across Fire King and Tri-Brigade starters; Brick and dead-draw risk from 21 spells and traps; Interaction density from hand-trap and removal text; Going-first and going-second estimates from card text
• Provisional: Median output and floor (no combos); Matchup and format fit (no dated meta sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists for this deck Side Deck is empty, so post-side adaptability cannot be measured Meta Power is Provisional because no dated metagame sample was supplied