Relinquished Deck #775070 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 45/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 4 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Kaiju boss monsters (Thunder King 3300 ATK, Jizukiru 3300 ATK, Radian 2800 ATK, Dogoran 3000 ATK) summoned from hand onto the opponent's field by tributing one of their monsters, then kept alive through the Kaiju chain and Kaiju-based removal and negation text.; Relinquished ritual route (Black Illusion Ritual plus a tribute) and Eyes Restrict fusion/equip play using Relinquished Fusion, Millennium-Eyes Illusionist and the two Eyes Restrict Fusion Monsters in the Extra Deck.
• Turn 1 (going first): Going first the Kaiju hand-summons are gated: each Kaiju text requires either a tribute of an opponent monster or an opponent Kaiju on the field, so a T1 Kaiju line is usually unavailable. The realistic opener is a searcher (Nightmare Apprentice, Millennium-Eyes Illusionist, Pre-Preparation of Rites, Ragged Records, Preparation of Rites) into the Relinquished ritual route, with Kaiju kept as a T2+ follow-up.
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with six hand traps in the Main Deck (Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Battle Fader, Maxx C, Effect Veiler, Tragoedia) to slow the opponent's first play, then Kaiju hand-summons onto the opponent's board once they commit a monster.
• Recovery: Recursion through Relinquished Fusion and Kinka-byo from the GY, Ragged Records and Pre-Preparation of Rites for search, Kyoutou Waterfront for Kaiju search, and Monster Reborn to revive from either GY.
• After siding: None: the deck runs zero Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan and no way to adapt between games of a best-of-three.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan on the going-first turn only about 23 percent of the time through any single three-copy starter (hypergeometric, Inferred), so consistency is the main drag on the score. Its conversion ceiling is high: several Kaiju and Eyes Restrict boards reach 2800 to 3300 ATK, and the Kaiju hand-summons can swing a board once the opponent commits a monster. Six hand traps and a tuned set of negation and removal text give it real interaction density for a going-second game, which earns the endboard and going-second dimensions. The score does not come from Relinquished being a popular archetype, since archetype purity is only about 2 percent of the main deck, and it was not built by averaging card scores; it reflects three loosely connected sub-engines (Kaiju, Eyes Restrict, Relinquished) that conflict and punish a going-first draw with dead Kaiju. With no Side Deck and no combo or tournament record, the post-side and median-output dimensions stay low and provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.7*Midrange + 0.3*Toolbox. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 41. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-2); unrecoverable going-first choke point (-2); no post-side plan (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.23 · 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

• Six hand traps give real going-second interaction and disruption
• Kaiju bosses of 2800 to 3300 ATK give a high board ceiling
• Multiple independent starter routes (searchers, Kaiju, Relinquished ritual) reduce single-card dependency
• Recursion from GY and search effects (Relinquished Fusion, Ragged Records, Pre-Preparation, Kyoutou Waterfront)

Weaknesses

• Three-copy starters seen in only about 23 percent of going-first openings
• Kaiju hand-summons are gated on an opponent monster, dead on an empty board going first
• Three archetype sub-engines with 1.6 percent exact-name purity and no unifying engine
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Eight one-of tech and searcher slots reduce consistency

Critical choke points

• Going-first turn: no opponent monster means Kaiju hand-summons are dead, so the T1 line must come from a searcher or the Relinquished ritual route
• Black Illusion Ritual plus a tribute for Relinquished; a single ritual line with no alternative when the tribute is unavailable
• Eyes Restrict fusion depends on only two Eyes Restrict Fusion Monsters in the Extra Deck

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal: 60 Main, 4 Extra, 0 Side within OCG size rules (40-60, 0-15, 0-15); Restricted card copies are within limits (Limited copies all at 1, Ash Blossom at 1 of 2); Kaiju summon text requires tributing an opponent monster or an opponent Kaiju on the field; Archetype purity 1.6 percent exact name; 63 off-archetype copies; Hand trap count 6 and searcher text count 9 from role tags
• Inferred: Going-first Kaiju dead-hand rate from card text plus opening-hand logic; Going-second hand-trap coverage from the six-card hand group probability; Ceiling and interaction ratings from card text; Dimension scores D1 to D14 and the Structural blend
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup and format fit (D13); Post-side adaptability (D12) beyond the zero-Side-Deck observation
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional: no dated metagame sample Data inconsistency: usage_statistics marks Millennium-Eyes Restrict and Relinquished Anima as not in the deck (copies_in_deck 0), but cards lists both in zone extra with copies 1 and extra_deck_breakdown (fusion 2, link 2) agrees with cards. This evaluation treats them as present; the usage in_this_deck flag likely checks only the main zone. core_present_pct 50 is therefore probably undercounted. No guides or archetype guide mentions attached