Red-Eyes Deck #773159 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 34/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Large Fusion and Ritual bosses (Red-Eyes Black Fullmetal Dragon 3400 ATK, Metalzoa X 3000 ATK, Sauravis, Saffira) reached through Metalmorph Special Summon chains and Ritual lines.; Fusion beaters from the Extra Deck (Cyber Blader, Invoked Purgatrio, The Last Warrior from Another Planet), which also serve as the bridge for Metamorphosis.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with searchers (Primite Lordly Lode, Incoming Machine!, Pre-Preparation of Rites) to set up a Metalmorph Trap and Ritual or Fusion access, while holding Ash Blossom or Effect Veiler as protection.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to present hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Nibiru) against the opponent's engine, then rebuild a board through Metamorphosis or Ritual summons.
• Recovery: Recover through searchers (18 searcher-text cards, about 87% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening) and Metalmorph recursion from the GY.
• After siding: Not assessed: the list has no side deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from its system, not from averaging card scores or from Red-Eyes' popularity. Its engine is spread across Metalmorph, Primite, Voiceless Voice and Ritual lines, so only 4 of 66 archetype-tagged copies are exact Red-Eyes cards (5.7% exact-name purity), which weakens engine coherence. Interaction is the strongest part: 8 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards and 17 removal-text cards give a dense, layered answer set. Bricking is moderate. The 18 searchers give about an 87% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening, but the Metalmorph chain itself is a narrow, multi-step route. Combo evidence is absent (0 parsed boards), so ceiling and floor are text-only inference. The deck is Illegal: it runs 3 copies each of Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon and Baronne de Fleur, which are Forbidden in OCG. It therefore gets no normal Final score, and the 34 is a theoretical structural read capped low. The side deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal: theoretical structural-only. 0.80*Structural(48) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 46 before modifiers; Meta provisional; context modifiers -12 gives 34

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 interaction: 8 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards and 17 removal-text cards
• Searchers (18 cards) make the opening reliable at finding a starter
• Boss ATK of 3000 to 3400 on the field, with Ritual and Fusion options

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: 3 Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon and 3 Baronne de Fleur, both Forbidden
• Low engine coherence: 5.7% exact-name purity across mixed sub-archetypes
• No side deck and no post-side plan
• No combo data, so ceiling and floor cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• The Metalmorph Special Summon chain depends on a few Trap and Spell starters
• Illegal Forbidden cards occupy 6 main-deck slots and must be removed before any legal evaluation

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 3x Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon and 3x Baronne de Fleur, both Forbidden with 0 legal copies; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side is 0; Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts match the banlist; Exact-name archetype purity is 5.7%
• Inferred: Starter probability of about 0.25 for 3-copy starters in a 5-card opening; Searcher coverage of about 0.87 in a 5-card opening; Hand-trap coverage of about 0.63 in a 6-card going-second hand; Interaction density is high based on card text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit
• 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 1 passcode (card_id 74677422) could not be resolved to a card and was counted as main no side deck: post-side plan cannot be assessed no win-rate telemetry for this deck Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied