Drytron Deck #773338 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Combo, Ritual, Xyz, Link
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual or Xyz summon a large Drytron or Ritual boss (Drytron Meteonis Draconids, Meteonis Quadrantids, Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX, Demise) from a Drytron/Meteonis Drytron engine; Xyz and Link boss plays from the Extra Deck (Super Starslayer TY-PHON, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS, Number F0 variants) once the board is stabilised
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Drytron Level 1 monster or Meteonis Drytron, tribute into a Drytron Ritual, then keep Ash Blossom / Infinite Impermanence up for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Evenly Matched, Infinite Impermanence and Dominus Impulse to slow the opponent's first board, then rebuild with Drytron Ritual Summons from the GY and deck
• Recovery: Drytron monsters can be Special Summoned from the GY (Drytron Nu II, Drytron Alpha/Gamma/Zeta/Delta) and Meteonis Drytron Ritual-summons from GY, so the engine rebuilds from the graveyard
• After siding: No side deck is registered (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists in a best-of-3 context

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in OCG (3 copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a limit of 2), so the score is capped and reported as theoretical/structural only. The system reliably opens a Drytron starter: the archetype core group of 22 copies has an estimated 94.5% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred, hypergeometric). Interaction density is high, with 8 hand traps and 16 negation-text and 18 removal-text cards, and the Drytron graveyard recursion supports continuity. Closing power comes from several 4000-ATK Ritual bosses and multiple 3000-ATK Extra Deck monsters. The score is driven by consistency, interaction and recursion on the system as a whole, not by averaging card scores and not by the archetype's popularity; no combo boards or tournament data were supplied, so output and matchup dimensions are text-inferred or provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Illegal list cap (-40). Final formula: Illegal: capped at 20 (theoretical/structural only). Structural 60 (Midrange profile) and TR 55 are informational; no Final Contextual formula applied. Meta Power null (provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense Drytron engine with multiple Level 1 starters and GY Special Summon routes
• High interaction density with 8 hand traps and negation/removal text
• Strong Ritual and Extra Deck boss ceiling at 3000 to 5000 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy count for Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (3 vs 2)
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Low archetype purity (42.4%) with many one-off off-archetype slots
• Complex Ritual and Tribute sequencing

Critical choke points

• Meteonis Drytron (2 copies) as the main Ritual enabler
• Drytron Level 1 monsters cannot be Normal Summoned, so the hand depends on a Drytron or Ritual monster on field

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 52, Extra 14, Side 0; within OCG size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring: 3 copies vs 2 legal (Semi-Limited), so the list is Illegal; Archetype purity 42.4% and the composition counts above; Card stats and banlist statuses from the evidence pack
• Inferred: Core-group consistency 0.945 and full-brick 0.055 (hypergeometric); Interaction, recursion and closing estimates from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format-fit scores (D13)
• 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/second, matchups, brick or starter rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck is Illegal (Ash Blossom copy limit), so the final score is capped