D.D. Deck #407599 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
40 Main, 12 Extra, incl. D.D. Crow x3, Droll & Lock Bird x3, Drytron Alpha Thuban x3.
Created by: YGO Mod (20517634)
Created On: 01/13/2025
Main Deck (40)
- D.D. Crow x3
- Droll & Lock Bird x3
- Drytron Alpha Thuban x3
- Drytron Delta Altais x2
- Drytron Gamma Eltanin x3
- Drytron Nu II x3
- Drytron Zeta Aldhibah x3
- Ultimate Bright Knight Ursatron Alpha x1
- Cyber Angel Benten x3
- Drytron Meteonis DA Draconids x1
- Diviner of the Herald x1
- Cyber Emergency x3
- Drytron Fafnir x3
- Drytron Nova x3
- Jack-In-The-Hand x3
- Meteonis Drytron x1
- Meteoroa Drytron x1
Extra Deck (12)
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Deck — Deck Power Evaluation
Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±12 · Confidence: Low)
| Overall score | Value |
|---|---|
| Structural Deck Power | 53 |
| Going First | 55 |
| Going Second | 42 |
| Meta Power | provisional |
| Tournament Reliability | 45 |
- Primary strategy: Midrange
- Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Combo
- Format: master-duel
Legality
Main 40 / Extra 12 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).
Identity & game plan
- Win condition: Drytron ritual and Xyz/Link pressure: Meteonis Drytron ritual-summons Drytron Meteonis DA Draconids (5000 ATK) or Benten, with Drytron Mu Beta Fafnir and ZEUS as extra-deck closers; Drytron Nu II and Gamma/Zeta/Alpha loops that recycle banished Drytron monsters into a repeated board
- Turn 1 (going first): Open on a searcher (Drytron Fafnir, Zeta Aldhibah, Alpha Thuban) to reach a Drytron monster, Special Summon Nu II or a Ritual-route monster, and extend into Meteonis Drytron for the Draconids ritual (text-only read, Inferred)
- Turn 2 (going second): Use D.D. Crow and Herald hand-trap or negation text to slow the opponent, then rebuild through Drytron searchers; the deck has no side deck to adjust this plan (Inferred)
- Recovery: Drytron Meteoroa and GY-banish recursion (Nu II, Gamma, Zeta, Alpha) plus Meteonis Drytron's GY effect to rebuild a Ritual route after a single board wipe (Inferred from card text)
- After siding: None: Side Deck size is 0, so there is no post-side plan and no adaptation after game one
Why it scores here
This list is Illegal in Master Duel because it runs 3 copies of Droll & Lock Bird against a limit of 2, so the score is capped and labelled structural-only. The structural read (about 53 before the cap) comes from the Drytron engine: 24 searcher-text cards put a searcher in the opening hand about 99% of the time, and the Meteonis Drytron ritual route gives a high closing ceiling (5000 ATK Draconids). Consistency is held back by a 5.8% exact-name archetype purity (the deck is mostly Drytron sub-archetype plus generic staples), by a Ritual route with no Machine Angel Ritual for Benten, and by a 0-card side deck that gives no post-side plan. No recorded boards, tournament record, or guides exist, so every combo and matchup read is Inferred. The score comes from consistency, closing power, and interaction on the system, not from D.D. being a popular archetype, and not from averaging individual card scores.
Dimension scores
| # | Dimension | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| D1 | Engine Accessibility & Consistency | 62 | Searcher-text cards put a searcher in the opening hand ~99% of the time; a 3-copy starter is live in 5 cards ~34%; 2-card bootstrap via Drytron searchers (Inferred) |
| D2 | Opening-Hand Quality & Brick Management | 50 | Several ritual/Drytron-dependent pieces need a specific partner (Benten needs a ritual spell not in the deck; Ursatron Alpha needs Ursarctic/Drytron on board), so some hands are dead; hand-trap group P≥1 going second 0.65 (Inferred) |
| D3 | Combo Conversion & Ceiling | 55 | No parseable boards; ceiling is the text-only chain Meteonis Drytron → Draconids 5000 ATK with Drytron recursion (Inferred semantic read) |
| D4 | Combo Floor & Median Output | 45 | No recorded boards, so median output is unknown and rests on the same text read with lower conversion (Inferred, low confidence) |
| D5 | Interruption Resilience & Route Redundancy | 55 | Multiple independent Drytron starters and GY recursion give some redundancy, but no recorded interruption data exists (Inferred) |
| D6 | Resource Economy, Recovery & Grind | 60 | 24 searcher-text cards and GY-banish recursion (Nu II, Gamma, Zeta, Alpha, Meteoroa) rebuild resources well; no net-advantage data (Inferred) |
| D7 | End-Board & Interaction Quality | 50 | Negation text 7, removal text 10, hand traps 6 (one illegal at 3 copies); none of the usage-stat staples (MST, Heavy Storm, Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute) are run (Inferred) |
| D8 | Going-Second & Board-Breaking Power | 55 | Going-second relies on hand traps (Crow, Droll) and Herald negation with no side deck; Droll's excess copy is a legality issue, not extra power (Inferred) |
| D9 | Offensive Pressure & Closing Power | 65 | Closing power via Draconids (5000 ATK), ZEUS (3000 ATK), Dawn Dragster piercing text; the closers need the Ritual/Xyz setup to be live (Inferred from card stats and text) |
| D10 | Main Deck Efficiency & Flexibility | 60 | 40 main cards across 17 distinct names with 11 cards at 3 copies; 5 cards at 1 copy keep the ritual/link slots focused (Verified composition, Inferred efficiency) |
| D11 | Extra Deck Efficiency & Coverage | 60 | 12 Extra cards across Xyz 5, Link 5, Synchro 2; Mu Beta Fafnir (2 copies) is the main Drytron Xyz; several Extra cards need Drytron/Ritual setup (Verified composition, Inferred use) |
| D12 | Side Deck Adaptability | 20 | No side deck (0 cards) in a best-of-3 format, so there is no adaptation; scored low by rubric (Verified) |
| D13 | Matchup Coverage & Format Fit | 45 | Tournament meta-share is unavailable and no dated meta sample is supplied; matchup fit is Provisional (Provisional) |
| D14 | Pilotability & Error Tolerance | 35 | Multi-zone Ritual, Xyz, Link and Synchro sequencing with Tribute/banish costs and multiple decision points; high error sensitivity (Inferred from card text) |
How the score was computed
Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Toolbox secondary; secondary weights not separately blended, Midrange profile used as-is. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine_conflicts_ritual_route (-3); no Side Deck (0); illegal_cap (-8). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(53.3) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 51.6 pre-modifier; context modifiers -9 gives 43; the Illegal cap (list over copy limit) lowers the final to 35. Structural-only, not a normal Final score.
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
- Dense searcher density (24 searcher-text cards) makes a starter reachable almost every hand
- Ritual route to a 5000 ATK Draconids gives a high ceiling
- Recursion from the GY lets Drytron monsters rebuild after a board wipe
Weaknesses
- Illegal: Droll & Lock Bird run at 3 copies, limit 2
- Exact-name archetype purity only 5.8%; much of the deck is generic/ritual staples
- No side deck; no post-side adaptation
- No usage-stat staples (MST, Heavy Storm, Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute) run
Critical choke points
- Meteonis Drytron as the only Ritual-spell route to the Draconids closer
- A Drytron monster on the field is needed for Nu II and the Gamma/Zeta/Alpha Special Summons
Recommended changes
| Priority | Remove | Add | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 copy of Droll & Lock Bird | 1 legal non-Semi-Limited interaction card, e.g. Mystical Space Typhoon (listed as a core card in usage stats; confirm its legality before adding) | Fixes the copy-limit violation that makes the list illegal; restores interaction that the usage stats show as archetype-standard |
| 2 | Cyber Angel Benten (3 copies) or the Cyber Emergency / Ritual-route cards that need Benten's ritual spell | Additional Drytron searchers or a second Drytron Ritual route | Benten has no dedicated Machine Angel Ritual in the list, so it is a likely brick and the ritual route needs the bodies to be live |
Evidence & confidence
- Verified: Main 40 / Extra 12 / Side 0 counts and copy histogram; Droll & Lock Bird 3 copies vs legal 2 (Illegal); Card text and stats for every resolved card; Usage-stat core cards absent from the deck (6 listed)
- Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and hand-trap probabilities; Ritual, GY-recursion and searcher engine read from card text; Interaction density and going-second board-breaking estimates
- Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13)
- Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference 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 No guides attached to the archetype Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied
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