Volcanic Deck #773235 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Volcanic Emperor (3100 ATK) and Nibiru/Dogoran style boards, reached through Volcanic Blaze Accelerator and Volcanic Trooper/Shell searches. Win conditions are inferred from card text only.; Link and Fusion beatsticks in the Extra Deck (Promethean Princess, Amblowhale, Mudragon, Garura) with Blaze Accelerator removal support. Little recorded evidence that these convert.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Volcanic Trooper or Volcanic Shell and search a Volcanic or Blaze Accelerator card, then use Blaze Accelerator and Volcanic Emission to set up a Volcanic Emperor summon. Inferred from text.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Solemn Judgment, Solemn Accusation, Droll and Maxx C as hand interaction and use Volcanic Inferno and Blaze Accelerator to clear or negate the opponent's board. Inferred.
• Recovery: Volcanic Shell and Volcanic Rimfire recur from the GY, and Volcanic Blaze Accelerator and Blaze Accelerator Reload keep resources flowing. Inferred from text.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan. The deck is also illegal as built.

Why it scores here

The deck does not earn its score from popularity or from averaging its cards. The Volcanic core (Trooper, Shell, Rimfire, Blaze Accelerator, Emperor) is the most consistent part of the list: 23 archetype-core copies give P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.94 (Inferred). Its interaction package (Ash Blossom, two Solemn cards, Droll, Maxx C, Red Reboot, Harpie's Feather Duster, Lightning Storm, Crossout Designator) is dense, which lifts the interaction dimension. Combo evidence is absent, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference and are scored conservatively. Purity is low at 28.6% exact-name, with 19 generic and several off-archetype copies, which weakens engine coherence. The list is illegal because it runs one copy of the Forbidden Triple Tactics Talent. The deck has no Side Deck, so post-side adaptability is minimal. Under the illegal-list rule it is capped at 25 and labelled theoretical and structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Stun secondary (interaction-heavy build); weights shown are Midrange. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (Forbidden card in list) (-10); Engine conflicts and no Side Deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*49.7 + 0.20*48 = 49.4; modifiers total -12 gives 37.4; illegal-list cap applied, final score 25 (theoretical and structural only)

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

• Archetype core is well represented (23 copies; about 0.94 chance of at least one in a 5-card hand)
• Dense hand-trap and spell/trap interaction package
• Recursive searchers and recursion from the GY (Shell, Rimfire, Reload)
• Volcanic Emperor and link beatsticks give end-board closing power

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Forbidden Triple Tactics Talent is run for 1 copy
• Low archetype purity (28.6% exact name) with many generic and off-archetype slots
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• No combo or tournament evidence, so output is largely text-based inference

Critical choke points

• Volcanic Blaze Accelerator and Volcanic Trooper as the main starter gate
• Single-copy Limited cards (Droll, Maxx C, Red Reboot, Solemn Judgment) reduce redundancy
• Triple Tactics Talent must be removed before the list is playable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 55 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Triple Tactics Talent is Forbidden and over copy limit; Copy-limit status of the Limited and Semi-Limited cards is within legal copies; Archetype purity 28.6% exact name; 20 of 70 archetype-tagged copies are exact Volcanic
• Observed: Usage statistics: Volcanic Emperor, Trooper, Shell, Emission and Blaze Accelerator at 100% inclusion (46 stat rows)
• Inferred: Consistency: P(at least one starter in 5) = 0.2529 for 3-copy cards; archetype-core P = 0.9421; Interaction quality from negation and removal text; Midrange primary strategy with Stun secondary; Going-first and going-second estimates from text and hand-trap probability (0.5176 going second)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability
• 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 win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups or brick rates Side Deck is empty Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample