Fur Hire Deck #389010 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 32/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Link and Fusion monsters (Folgo, Geri, Sleipnir, Underworld Goddess) closing after Fur Hire and Runick board-building (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Rafale, Champion Fur Hire (2800 ATK) as a single-copy threat, supported by Fur Hire summon-from-hand effects (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Rex or Fossil Dig and search a Dinosaur or Fur Hire monster, then Rookie Fur Hire or Beat/Donpa to Special Summon further Fur Hire and reach a Link or Fusion (Inferred; no combos to verify the line)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand for hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C) and a Quick-Play Runick spell to remove or negate the opponent's board before rebuilding through Fur Hire (Inferred)
• Recovery: Runick Fountain and Quick-Play recursion, plus Rex and Donpa re-summons from the GY (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not applicable: side deck is empty, so no post-side plan exists in the list as submitted

Why it scores here

The list is capped low because it is illegal in Master Duel: Maxx C is run three times against a limit of one, and Called by the Grave is run twice while Forbidden, so this is a structural read only. The engine is split across three sub-archetypes (19 Runick, 9 Spright, 11 exact Fur Hire, 13 generic cards), so only 20% of the main deck is exact-name Fur Hire, which weakens starter coherence. Rex and Fossil Dig (about 34% each to appear in a five-card opener) and the Quick-Play Runick spells give a playable but unreliable opening, and the 22 removal and 11 negation text hits give real interaction on paper. There are no recorded combos, no tournament context and an empty side deck, so the ceiling and median cannot be measured and are not credited beyond text. The score comes from consistency, interaction and resilience on the system as submitted, not from the Fur Hire archetype's popularity or from averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 45, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 46, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal list capped: 0.80*Structural(45) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(38) - 12 banlist modifier = 31.6, rounded to 32 (Meta provisional; theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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 and 22 removal-text effects give several interaction options
• Rex and Fossil Dig are 3-copy searchers that give some opening consistency
• Runick Fountain and Quick-Play recursion support recovery after disruption
• Extra Deck covers Link, Fusion and Xyz routes, so it is not reliant on one summon type

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Maxx C over the copy limit and Called by the Grave Forbidden
• Archetype purity is 20%, with cards spread over Runick, Spright and generic pieces
• No side deck, so there is no best-of-3 adaptation
• No combos or tournament data, so ceiling and median are text-only

Critical choke points

• Rex and Fossil Dig (3 copies each) are the main searchers, and each has about a 34% chance of appearing in a five-card opener
• Skip-Battle-Phase costs on the Quick-Play Runick spells limit repeated plays

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal: Maxx C 3 copies (limit 1) and Called by the Grave 2 copies (Forbidden); Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 against Master Duel size rules; Archetype purity 20%; 15 Extra Deck cards split 8 Link, 5 Fusion, 2 Xyz; P(at least one 3-copy card in 5-card opener) = 0.3376 (hypergeometric, computed)
• Inferred: Consistency and starter reliability from the hypergeometric draw table; Interaction density from card-text hits (22 removal, 11 negation); Going-first and going-second plan read from card text, not from recorded games
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament context)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent usage statistics in this deck flags appear to miss Extra Deck cards: Donner, Spright Elf and Folgo are in the cards list but flagged in this deck false, so core-card presence = 28 is probably understated No win-rate telemetry exists for this deck Side deck is empty, so no post-side evidence exists Deck title is null