Eldlich Deck #409603 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Control
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Eldlich the Golden Lord (2500 ATK) and Extra Deck Xyz/Fusion threats, reached through Eldlixir Special Summons that need a live Eldlich monster on the field; Recursion from the Graveyard and Deck through Eldlixir and Eldlich effects to rebuild a board after the opponent's sweeper or floodgate
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Cursed Eldland (800 LP) to fetch an Eldlich monster, then use an Eldlixir to Special Summon a Zombie and extend toward an Xyz or Fusion finisher; Torrential Tribute or Ice Dragon's Prison are the backup interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold trap interaction (Torrential Tribute, Destructive Daruma Karma Cannon, Simultaneous Equation Cannons, Ice Dragon's Prison) to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Eldlixir recursion
• Recovery: Rebuild from the Graveyard by banishing Eldlixirs and Trap monsters to set and re-summon Zombie monsters, which depends on at least one Eldlich being alive
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

This list is structurally a trap-heavy control shell with a thin Eldlich engine: only 5 of 40 Main Deck cards are monsters (3 Eldlich, 2 Lord of the Heavenly Prison), so the engine depends on three copies of one monster being drawn, roughly a 34% chance of at least one in a going-first opening hand. Its strongest contribution is interaction density (Torrential Tribute, Destructive Daruma Karma Cannon, Ice Dragon's Prison, Simultaneous Equation Cannons, Heavy Storm Duster, Golden Land Forever!), which earns the going-second board-breaking and end-board scores. The deck is illegal in Master Duel as built (two Forbidden Extra Deck cards and three Solemn Strike against a limit of one), so the score is capped and reflects structure and theory only. Archetype popularity did not earn any points: the list runs only 5 of the 25 archetype-standard core cards and 23.6% exact-name purity, and no recorded boards or tournament results exist to confirm conversion. The score comes from the deck as one system (access, interaction, recovery and a monster-light engine), not from averaging the individual card ratings.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 45, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); unrecoverable choke point / engine conflicts (-3); hard-garnet burden (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*45 + 0.20*38 - 11 = 32.6; Illegal deck capped to 30 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.18 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction suite (Torrential Tribute, Destructive Daruma Karma Cannon, Ice Dragon's Prison, Simultaneous Equation Cannons, Heavy Storm Duster, Trap Trick, Golden Land Forever!)
• Eldlixir and Golden Land traps give the Graveyard and Deck recursion needed to rebuild after a sweep
• Eldlich the Golden Lord and Lord of the Heavenly Prison supply real board presence once they are on the field

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: two Forbidden Extra Deck cards and Solemn Strike over its Limited count
• Only 5 monsters in the Main Deck, so the engine rests on three copies of Eldlich
• No Side Deck, so the list cannot adapt between games
• Cursed Eldland blocks attacks except with Zombie monsters, which restricts the offensive plan

Critical choke points

• Access to at least one Eldlich monster (3 copies; ~34% in a going-first opening hand)
• Paying 800 LP for Cursed Eldland to find an Eldlich at all

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Abyss Dweller and Lyrilusc are Forbidden, Solemn Strike is Limited to 1 and runs 3 copies; Main Deck is 40 cards and Extra Deck is 15 cards, both within the Master Duel size rules; Side Deck is 0; Monster count is 5 (3 Eldlich, 2 Lord of the Heavenly Prison) out of 40 Main Deck cards; Cursed Eldland text: 800 LP to add an Eldlich monster or Golden Land Spell/Trap from the Deck to hand; Archetype exact-name purity is 23.6%
• Inferred: P(at least one Eldlich in a going-first hand) ~0.34 from the hypergeometric draw table; Interaction density is high based on removal and negation text across 31 and 7 cards; Engine consistency and brick rate are estimated from the monster count and text, not recorded games; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample exists; Matchup and format fit depend on a meta sample that is not supplied
• 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 no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null and no Side Deck is registered