Mathmech Deck #791919 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Stun, Link Summon
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 15 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Salamangreat Pyro Phoenix or Raging Phoenix (2800 ATK each, two copies each) and convert the board with Geomathmech Final Sigma (3000 ATK); Salamangreat Miragestallio and Promethean Princess as additional Extra Deck closers once the Link Monsters are on board
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Salamangreat Gazelle, Mulcharmy Fuwalos or Salamangreat Circle; the searchers (Circle, Cynet Mining, Salamangreat of Fire, Foxy) fetch the next Salamangreat piece and build toward a Link Summon of Balelynx or Sunlight Wolf
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre as hand traps against the opponent's first engine play, then use the same searcher and Link line on the following turn
• Recovery: Graveyard-triggered Special Summons (Gazelle, Falco, Spinny, Weasel) and the Link Monsters' GY effects rebuild board presence after a clean removal or negation
• After siding: Bring in Raigeki, Forbidden Droplet, Ghost Belle and Fantastical Dragon Phantazmay against boards that rely on Link Monsters or Spell/Trap pressure; Blaze Dragon and Iron Thunder cover the remaining gaps

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens into a Salamangreat engine: three copies each of Gazelle, Fuwalos and Circle, plus two Circle-style searchers and a Foxy, give a high chance that at least one starter or searcher is in hand, and the probability estimates put the core group at roughly 90 percent to open with one piece. Its conversion is strong on paper because the Extra Deck is built around 2800-ATK Link Phoenixes and a 3000-ATK Synchro finisher, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling is text-based and the median is not measured. Interaction is the system's best feature: two Ash Blossom, two Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Salamangreat Rage and Roar, plus Harpie's Feather Duster and Dark Ruler No More, give layered protection against the common first plays. The score comes from consistency, interaction density and closing power acting together, not from Mathmech being a popular archetype and not from averaging the individual card scores; the Mathmech archetype label covers only six exact-name copies, and the engine is mostly Salamangreat.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine conflict (-2); transformational side deck (1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*63.4 + 0.20*60 - 3 = 59.7

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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 Salamangreat searcher and starter package (Gazelle, Fuwalos, Circle, Foxy, Cynet Mining)
• Layered interaction: two Ash Blossom, two Ghost Ogre, Impermanence, Rage, Roar, Duster and Dark Ruler No More
• Strong Extra Deck closers (two 2800-ATK Pyro Phoenix, two 2800-ATK Raging Phoenix, 3000-ATK Final Sigma)
• Side deck offers real post-side changes including Raigeki, Droplet and Phantazmay

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so the median and ceiling are not measured
• Mathmech identity is thin: only six exact-name copies in a mostly Salamangreat build
• Five hand traps and eight tech cards add dead-card risk in some hands
• Sanctuary's 1000 LP cost and Cynet Mining's hand discard limit grind

Critical choke points

• Salamangreat Circle and Gazelle as the early searcher and starter; losing them removes most early access
• Link Summon of Pyro or Raging Phoenix needs the right Link Monster material on board

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 15 and no size violations; Six restricted cards run within their legal copy limits; Card stats and text for the listed cards; Extra Deck breakdown: twelve Link, two Synchro, one Xyz
• Inferred: Starter access and brick risk from the hypergeometric draw table; Interaction density and negation coverage from card text; Going-second hand-trap value from the hand-trap probability
• Provisional: Meta and matchup fit, since no dated metagame sample is supplied
• 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 unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no guides attached to this archetype