Power Patron Deck #774490 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Combo
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 59 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Power Patron Link and Fusion boards (Mediclius, Nerva, Vidolium, Black Chaos) converting through Medius and Theorealize searches, if the list were legal; Light and Darkness Ritual boards (Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos, Black Luster Soldier) as a second threat package
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Medius, Mulcharmy and Pendulum Treasure to reach Power Patron Extra Deck pieces; protect the T1 line with Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Solemn Judgment
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 10 hand traps (Ash, Kuriboh, Nibiru, Ghost Ogre, Droll and others) to break the opponent's first summon and then rebuild from the GY via Medius and Theorealize
• Recovery: Mulcharmy and Pot of Sloth draw effects refill the hand once the board is spent; Theorealize Past Lull and Ars Magna recursion return Extra Deck monsters from GY and banishment
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck registers no Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck's real engine is the Power Patron archetype core (24 copies, about 93.5% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand per the hypergeometric estimate), backed by 25 searcher-text cards that make a starter reachable on turn 1 in most hands (Inferred). Its interaction package is dense: 10 hand traps and 12 negation-text cards give it layered answers to the opponent's first summon, which is what earns the endboard and resilience scores. Conversion is the weak point: with no recorded boards, the ceiling and median cannot be measured, so the combo dimensions stay near neutral and are marked Inferred. Only 8 of 59 Main Deck copies are the exact Power Patron name (10.8%), and the list spreads across Ars Magna, Mulcharmy, Light and Darkness Ritual, Artmage and Medius, so engine coherence is limited. Popularity did not earn points: archetype usage stats confirm the list is real and accessible but do not raise the score, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score. The score is capped at 35 because the list is Illegal (three copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a limit of two), so it is a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy limit (-8); Limited-tier exposure (-2); No side deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(48.1) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 47.5; modifiers -12 gives 35.5; Illegal-deck cap sets the final score to 35 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.07 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core engine has high access: about 93.5% chance of at least one Power Patron core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred)
• Dense interaction: 10 hand traps and 12 negation-text cards cover the opponent's first summon and most spell and trap activations (Inferred)
• Extra Deck has real closing threats: Vidolium, Nerva, Mediclius, Junora and Black Chaos (Verified stats)
• Recursion from GY and banishment through Theorealize and Ars Magna keeps the engine going after a disruption (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• The list is illegal as built: three Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring copies exceed the Semi-Limited limit of two (Verified)
• Low archetype purity (10.8% exact name) and 66 off-archetype copies dilute engine coherence (Verified)
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation (Verified)
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unmeasured (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring copy limit: the deck must drop one copy before it can be played legally
• Medius the Pure as the entry point for most Power Patron and Theorealize lines (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 59, Extra 15, Side 0 counts and size limits (40-60, 0-15, 0-15); Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring run 3 vs Semi-Limited limit 2, making the deck Illegal; Limited status of Droll and Lock Bird, Prohibited Power Patron Portal, S:P Little Knight and Solemn Judgment, each run at 1 copy; Exact-name purity 10.8% and off-archetype count 66; Archetype usage stats available (31 rows, 13 of 25 core cards present)
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.935 in a 5-card hand and searcher access about 0.944; Brick rate proxy about 0.065; Interaction density from text: 10 hand traps, 12 negation-text cards; Going-second and board-breaking reads from text only
• Provisional: Meta Power left null; no dated metagame sample supplied; Matchup fit (D13) scored at provisional 40
• 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 are absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups or brick rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null, so the deck is identified only by its id and archetype