Monarch Deck #774998 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tribute Summon a 2400+ ATK Monarch-family monster (Eidos, Erebus, Ehther, Caius) and convert the board with 2800-ATK bosses and Monarch-based removal and negation; Mulcharmy draw and Monarch Spell/Trap recursion grind, with Domain of the True Monarchs gaining Tribute-Summon-only value because the deck runs no Extra Deck cards
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening hand searches or Special Summons a Tribute enabler (Tessera, Edea, Eidos the Underworld Squire) and Tributes into a Monarch boss, backed by Typhoon, Solemn Strike and Ash Blossom for interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand holds Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment, Solemn Accusation or Solemn Strike to stop the opponent's board, then rebuilds a Monarch boss through Tenacity or Pantheism
• Recovery: Banish Monarch Spell/Trap cards from the Graveyard to Special Summon The Prime Monarch or Eidos, and use Mulcharmy Fuwalos or Purulia to draw when the hand is empty
• After siding: No Side Deck is present, so there is no post-side plan in the evidence; the deck cannot adjust between games

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal as submitted: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run three times against an OCG limit of two, so the normal Final Contextual score is capped low and this result is theoretical and structural only. Structurally, the list has a real Monarch engine: Tribute enablers (Tessera, Edea, Eidos the Underworld Squire) reach 2400 to 2800 ATK bosses, and about 17 searcher-text cards plus Mulcharmy draw effects give the hand a reasonable chance to find a Monarch piece (roughly 86% for at least one searcher in a five-card opening hand, Inferred). Interaction is dense (7 hand-trap and 13 negation-text cards), which earns the end-board and going-second scores. Consistency is held back by 29 off-archetype copies, eight singletons, and no Side Deck, and the zero-card Extra Deck means the deck has no Extra Deck backstop. No combos, archetype usage statistics, or tournament records were supplied, so the median output and matchup scores rest on text inference only, and popularity did not earn points. The score was built from the deck as a system, not by averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Control secondary (no weight blend applied; Combo profile used). Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (-12); No Side Deck (0). Final formula: No dated meta sample, so Meta is provisional: 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 49.4, then the Illegal cap (copy-limit violation) applies a -12 modifier and caps the final score at 30 (theoretical/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

• Dense negation and hand-trap interaction (13 negation-text cards, 7 hand traps) protects a single Monarch boss line
• Multiple Tribute enablers and 2800-ATK bosses give a real closing threat
• Searcher density (17 cards) gives a high chance of finding a Monarch piece in the opening hand

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring copy limit is exceeded
• Low exact-name purity (47%) and 29 off-archetype copies weaken engine coherence
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• Empty Extra Deck removes a backstop and the deck depends on Tribute Summons

Critical choke points

• Eidos and Erebus require a Tribute enabler; without one in hand or the Graveyard, the boss line stalls
• Ash Blossom copy count is over the limit, so a legal build must cut a copy before it can be used at all

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck is 55 cards, inside the OCG 40-60 size range; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run 3 times against a Semi-Limited limit of 2 (Illegal); Extra Deck and Side Deck are both empty
• Inferred: A Tribute enabler is needed for the 2800-ATK boss line; Hypergeometric starter odds: 0.2529 per 3-copy card in a 5-card hand; ≈0.86 for at least one searcher; Interaction density is high from the 7 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (D13); no dated metagame sample or tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No archetype usage statistics: core and meta-standard comparison unavailable No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or unknown Meta Power is Provisional (no dated sample)