Eldlich Deck #412689 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±6 · 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. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Eldlich recursion and Golden Land board pressure converting into Link/Xyz beats (Knightmare Unicorn, Black Luster Soldier, Number 77, Skypalace Gangaridai) - text-only read, no recorded boards; Skill-light trap-based interaction (Solemn Strike, Infinite Impermanence, Iron Thunder, Golden Land Forever!) to keep the engine online
• Turn 1 (going first): Open an Eldlich or Golden Land starter (Cursed Eldland, Eldlixir of Scarlet Sanguine, Conquistador, Huaquero), search or recycle Eldlich the Golden Lord, and Link/Xyz over to a board breaker
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold a hand trap (Infinite Impermanence, Solemn Strike, Iron Thunder) or Golden Land Forever! to negate the opponent's first summon, then rebuild the Eldlixir loop
• Recovery: Banish Eldlixir / Huaquero from the GY to set Eldlixir from the Deck and rebuild Eldlich recursion
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0, Master Duel side cap 0-15), so no post-side plan exists in this list

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal in Master Duel because it runs 3 copies of Solemn Strike against a 1-copy Limited cap, so the score is capped at 30 and labelled structural-only. Structurally, the Eldlich core is reasonably reachable: 13 archetype-core copies give an estimated 0.88 chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and the Golden Land and Eldlixir recursion gives a plausible grind. Trap-heavy hand-trap and negation density (3 hand traps, 12 negation-text cards) is credited in the interaction dimension (D7), but the 26-trap main deck is a brick and fragmentation risk that holds back D2 and D10. The deck has no recorded boards (total combos 0), so ceiling and median output (D3, D4) are text-only inferences and are scored conservatively. No Side Deck and no tournament or win-rate data mean the post-side, matchup, and meta dimensions stay low and provisional; the average of the individual card powers was not used.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange weights used as primary; Toolbox noted as secondary, no fixed blend computed. Structural ≈ 47.3, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal copy limit (Solemn Strike) (-5); Banlist exposure (Limited cards) (-3). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(47.3) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 45.8; modifiers -8 gives 37.8; Illegal-deck cap applied, final 30 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.12 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype-core density is high (13 copies, about 88% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand)
• Layered negation and hand-trap suite (3 hand traps, 12 negation-text cards) with recursion via Eldlixir and Golden Land
• Link and Xyz ending gives multiple board-breaking and removal options (Knightmare Unicorn, Number 77, Skypalace Gangaridai)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: 3 copies of Solemn Strike against a 1-copy Limited cap
• 26 traps in a 40-card main deck raise brick and redundancy risk in opening hands
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Low exact-name archetype purity (12.7%) with many cross-archetype pieces (Greed, Solemn, World Chalice, Charmer)
• Usage shows many core archetype cards missing (5 of 25 core cards present, 20%)

Critical choke points

• Eldlich the Golden Lord is the single key searcher and recursion piece (2 copies)
• Golden Land and Eldlixir recursion depend on a small number of Golden Land Spell/Trap pieces
• Legal 1-copy Solemn Strike means the hand-trap plan is thinner once the illegal copies are removed

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Solemn Strike 3 copies vs legal 1 (BanMasterDuel Limited); Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within Master Duel size rules; Pot of Extravagance and Pot of Duality each run 1 copy (legal); Usage stats: 5 of 25 core cards present; 13 archetype-core copies
• Inferred: Archetype-core opening-hand estimate of about 0.88 (hypergeometric); Brick and redundancy read from the 26-trap composition; Interaction density read from card text (3 hand traps, 12 negation-text cards); Recursion and resource-loop read from Eldlixir and Golden Land card text
• Provisional: Matchup fit and Meta Power (no dated metagame sample supplied); Side Deck adaptability (no Side Deck in the list)
• Data gaps: No recorded combos (total combos 0): ceiling and median output are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck in the list, so post-side evaluation is not possible Title is null in the deck export