Volcanic Deck #773239 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Volcanic Emperor and Link/Fusion boss monsters (Promethean Princess, Salamangreat Raging Phoenix, Snake-Eyes Flamberge Dragon, Nibiru) converting a Volcanic/Mulcharmy engine into board pressure; Snake-Eye and Mulcharmy draw and recursion engines grinding through card advantage
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter such as Volcanic Trooper, Volcanic Shell, Fire Ejection or Mulcharmy; search via Volcanic Trooper/Volcanic Shell/Snake-Eye Ash, then reach a Volcanic Emperor or link boss (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C, Droll, Red Reboot, Linkuriboh) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draws and Volcanic recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recursion from the GY: Volcanic Rimfire, Snake-Eye Oak/Poplar and Blaze Accelerator revive or re-search Volcanic monsters (text-based, Inferred)
• After siding: Not defined: side deck is empty, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

This list cannot be played as built: it runs two Forbidden OCG cards (Triple Tactics Talent and Original Sinful Spoils - Snake-Eye), so it receives a theoretical, structural-only score capped at 35 rather than a normal Final Contextual score. The structural read is still meaningful: the Volcanic core (Trooper, Shell, Fire Ejection, Emperor, Blaze Accelerator) and the Mulcharmy draw engine give a high chance of a live starter (about 0.94 that at least one core card is in a 5-card hand, Inferred), and 8 hand traps plus 14 removal/negation effects give good interaction. The score does not come from Volcanic being a known archetype, and the card scores were not averaged. Scoring is held down by the empty side deck, the absence of any recorded boards (no combo floor, median or ceiling), no tournament or meta data, and a loose Main Deck (exact-name Volcanic purity 20%, with 56 off-archetype copies).

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Control secondary not blended (the Midrange profile is used as-is). Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure: Forbidden cards in list (-8); No side deck (-4). Final formula: Illegal deck: theoretical cap applied. Uncapped 0.80*Structural(57) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-12) = 43; capped to 35 per the illegal-deck rule. Meta Power is null (Provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.06 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Very high probability of a live starter from a large Volcanic and Mulcharmy engine
• Eight hand traps and multiple removal/negation effects give layered interaction on both turns
• Strong closers at Extra and Main Deck levels: Volcanic Emperor, Snake-Eyes Flamberge Dragon, Nibiru, link bosses

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: two Forbidden cards are in the Main Deck
• Empty side deck: no post-side plan for best-of-3
• Loose Main Deck: 20% exact-name Volcanic purity and 56 off-archetype copies
• No recorded boards, so no measured combo floor, median or ceiling

Critical choke points

• Volcanic Emperor summoning condition (banish 3 Pyro or 1 Blaze Accelerator) if Blaze Accelerator and Pyro count drop after the Forbidden cards are removed
• Snake-Eye line depends on Original Sinful Spoils - Snake-Eye, which is Forbidden and cannot be played

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Two Forbidden OCG cards in the Main Deck (legal copies 0), deck status Illegal; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; Side 0 is legal but empty; Copy limits are otherwise met for Limited and Semi-Limited cards; Card text and stats for all 55+15 cards come from the evidence pack
• Inferred: P(>=1 core card in 5-card hand) ~0.94 and ~0.78 for searchers (hypergeometric, Inferred); Hand-trap coverage of going-second hands ~0.63 (Inferred); Route redundancy and recursion from text (Inferred)
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup/format fit (no dated metagame sample or tournament link); Tournament reliability (no win-rate telemetry)
• Data gaps: combos_evidence has no parseable boards: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference The deck has no side deck (0 cards), so post-side and D12 are not measurable usage_statistics marks Extra Deck cards that are present in this deck (Promethean Princess, Garura, Norden, Amblowhale, S:P Little Knight, Sea Monster of Theseus, Accesscode Talker, etc.) as in_this_deck: false; the usage matcher seems to ignore the Extra Deck, so usage-based core reads are unreliable for Extra cards No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates); those signals are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional: no dated metagame sample supplied Deck title is null