Eldlich Deck #409607 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Xyz and Link threats (Ravenous Tarantula, Adreus, Super Dora, Arc Rebellion) once the trap-based negation shell has stopped the opponent's board; Golden Land traps Special Summoned as Zombie monsters through Eldlixir and Eldlich the Golden Lord
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with an Eldlich the Golden Lord or a Cursed Eldland search line, then set negation traps and pass; no recorded line exists, so this plan is Inferred from card text
• Turn 2 (going second): Answer the opponent's summons and activations with set negation traps (Iron Thunder, Witch's Strike, Black Horn of Heaven, Ice Dragon's Prison), then convert with Extra Deck monsters
• Recovery: Golden Lord returns to hand from the Graveyard by sending a Spell/Trap you control, and Eldlixir can be set again from the Graveyard by banishment (both from card text, Inferred as a line)
• After siding: Not applicable: the list runs no side deck (side count 0), so there is no post-side plan to score

Why it scores here

This list opens functional hands less reliably than its trap count suggests: only two Eldlich the Golden Lord copies serve as the sole Zombie starter, so the chance of having at least one in a 5-card opening hand is about 0.23 (Inferred), and 33 of 42 main-deck cards are Trap Cards that do nothing without a monster to summon them. Its strongest reading is interaction breadth, with 16 cards that carry negation text covering both summons and activations, plus a 15-card Extra Deck that offers several 2500-3200 ATK threats. No recorded boards exist, so the conversion and median output are text-only estimates and carry low confidence. Popularity did not earn points: the Eldlich archetype appears in the deck, but exact-name purity is only about 12 percent, and the 42-card list is scored as one connected system rather than as an average of its individual card scores. The list breaks the Master Duel copy limit on Solemn Strike, so the score is capped and the evaluation is structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 45.2, Going First ≈ 44, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: Banlist and copy-limit exposure (-6); Single-starter dependence (-3); Trap-heavy brick load (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers (-12) = 31.8, capped to 25 because the list is Illegal (theoretical and structural only); Meta Power provisional, not used

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.23 · 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

• Broad negation suite: 16 cards carry negation text across summons and activations (Verified card text)
• Extra Deck offers several high-ATK Xyz and Link threats across three sub-archetypes (Verified stats)
• Graveyard recursion through Eldlixir and Eldlich the Golden Lord gives some card economy (Inferred from card text)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Solemn Strike is at 2 copies against a limit of 1 (Verified)
• Trap-heavy main deck (33 of 42) with few monsters to make those traps act (Verified composition)
• Only 2 copies of the single Zombie starter, so the engine is fragile (Verified composition, Inferred consequence)
• Exact archetype purity about 12 percent, so the engine is loosely coherent (Verified)

Critical choke points

• Eldlich the Golden Lord (2 copies) is the gate for Golden Land summons and the Cursed Eldland search line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Solemn Strike at 2 copies against a legal limit of 1 (Limited); Main Deck 42 and Extra Deck 15 are within the Master Duel size rules; Pot of Extravagance and Pot of Duality each run 1 copy, within their Limited status; Composition: 33 Trap Cards, 16 negation-text cards, 15 Extra Deck slots
• Observed: Usage statistics show Eldlich the Golden Lord in 2 of 3 reference lists and Eldlixir of Scarlet Sanguine in 2 of 3 (archetype-level, not this deck's results)
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability of about 0.23 for the single Zombie starter; Brick and dead-trap rates are estimated high from the Trap-heavy composition; Going-first and going-second power are estimated from the stated dimensions
• Provisional: Format fit and matchup coverage, because no dated meta sample is supplied; Side-deck adaptability, because no side deck is run
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match 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, so the list is identified only by its archetype