Tenpai Dragon Deck #775287 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro boss beatdown from Angelechy, Sangenpai and Trident/Tenpai Dragon synchro monsters, enabled by the FIRE Dragon search engine (Paidra, Genroku, Fadra, Sangen Kaimen, Sangen Summoning).; Link and Synchro board presence after hand-trap and removal exchanges (Promethean Princess, Crystron Phoenix, Kuibelt).
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Tenpai Dragon Paidra or Genroku, search a Sangen spell, set up Sangen Summoning or Kaimen, and Synchro into a 3000-ATK boss; Angelechy Opening to e4 is only live when the opponent goes first.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment and Dominus Impulse to stop the opponent's first summon or search, then convert with the FIRE Dragon engine.
• Recovery: Recur FIRE Dragons from the GY with Genroku, Fadra and Bident Dragion, and rebuild with Sangen Kaimen or Sangen Summoning searches.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan; best-of-3 play cannot adapt.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: a FIRE Dragon search engine (Paidra, Genroku, Fadra, Sangen Kaimen and Sangen Summoning) feeds synchro and link bosses, and the 14 negation and 17 removal text hits give it strong interaction density. The archetype core is well represented (P(at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.89, Inferred), and the deck has several redundant hand traps and recursion routes, which supports D1 and D5. Floor and median output cannot be assessed because no combos were recorded, so D4 is held down, and the lack of any side deck caps D12 near the floor. The list is Illegal as built (three Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a limit of two), so the final score is capped at 30 and the evaluation is theoretical and structural only. Popularity (about 75% core presence in usage stats) confirms the list is real and accessible but did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-3); engine_compactness (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*55 + 0.20*42 - 5 = 48; ILLEGAL list capped at 30 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.11 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered interaction: 3 Ash Blossom, 2 Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird, 2 Solemn cards, Dominus Impulse, Forbidden Droplet
• Redundant FIRE Dragon search and recursion (Paidra, Genroku, Fadra, Sangen Kaimen, Sangen Summoning)
• High-ceiling synchro bosses at 2700-3000 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: 3 copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring exceed the Semi-Limited limit of 2
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Low archetype purity (10.1%) and 19 tech slots dilute the engine
• Heat Wave and other symmetrical locks also hit the deck's own Effect Monsters

Critical choke points

• Sangen Summoning and Sangen Kaimen are Limited; losing them to a banlist change removes the main searcher route
• Single Tenpai Dragon Chundra (Limited) is the only Synchro-summonable FIRE Dragon starter at 1 copy

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status and Ash Blossom copy violation (3 vs 2); Main 55 and Extra 14 within OCG size rules; All Limited cards run at 1 copy; Zero Side Deck cards
• Observed: Usage stats: archetype core inclusion around 75%
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and core-group probabilities; Structural dimension scores from card text and composition; Going-first and going-second power from text and turn-order reasoning
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13) need a dated metagame sample
• 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/starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck registered (side_count 0) Deck title is null