Ghoti Deck #411166 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro boss monsters (Guoglim, Askaan, White Aura Whale, Arionpos) built from a banish-driven Fish engine; Hand-trap-supported interaction plus recursive banish engine into Synchro boards
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Fish starter (Paces, Beautunaful Princess, Abyss Shark, Psiics, Snopios) to search or summon a second Fish, then Synchro toward a boss; the deck is slower than most and needs the Standby Phase timing of its banished engine
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird and Nibiru as hand traps to disrupt the opponent's board, then rebuild Fish Synchros from the GY/banish zone
• Recovery: Banished Fish monsters return on the Standby Phase (Paces, Shif, Zep, Keaf), so the engine can rebuild after being disrupted
• After siding: Not evaluable: side deck is empty (0 cards)

Why it scores here

The score is capped at 25 because the list is Illegal: two copies of Called by the Grave are run against a Forbidden status with zero legal copies. Within that structural read, the deck reliably has a Fish starter in hand (about 69% for the searcher group in a 5-card opener, Inferred), and its banish-based recursion gives it some resilience to disruption. Its hand-trap density (9 cards, about 81% to have one in a going-second 6-card hand, Inferred) and Synchro bosses give it real interaction and closing pressure. The deck has no recorded boards, no side deck and no tournament or win-rate data, so the floor and median output and the matchup fit are provisional. The score comes from consistency, interaction and boss power on the system, not from averaging card scores and not from the popularity of the Ghoti archetype (exact-name purity is only 25.5%).

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo profile only; Control secondary noted but not blended. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); illegal-list cap (-18). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 51.8 before modifiers; Illegal list capped at 25 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.69 · 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

• Fish redundancy gives several copies of the same starter type (Paces, Beautunaful Princess, Abyss Shark)
• Nine hand traps give strong going-second interaction
• Synchro bosses with 2100 to 2800 ATK and banish-on-summon effects

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy count of Called by the Grave (Forbidden)
• Low exact-name archetype purity (25.5%) and 41 off-archetype copies
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation

Critical choke points

• Standby Phase timing of the banished Fish engine
• Dependence on Fish monsters in GY and banish zone for Synchro materials
• Single Forbidden card in the list makes the deck unplayable as built

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Called by the Grave is Forbidden in master-duel with 0 legal copies, run at 2 copies (illegal); Main 40 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side 0 is within 0-15; Archetype usage: Ghoti core cards present 3 of 25 (12%)
• Observed: Extra Deck: 12 Synchro and 3 Link monsters
• Inferred: P(>=1 searcher in 5-card opener) ≈ 0.69; P(>=1 hand trap in 6-card going-second hand) ≈ 0.81; Synchro boss routes and banish-recursion engine (text-based)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament data); Side-deck adaptability (no side deck)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied (0 parseable boards): 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/starter rates) — Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck: post-side plan unscored deck title is null