Gadgets Deck #412808 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 0 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Morphtronic monsters pressure the board and close with direct-damage effects (Datatron, Clocken, Hauler's ATK growth) while Morphtronic removal clears blockers.; Gadget Hauler ATK growth from Morphtronic monsters sent from hand, plus Clocken and Datatron damage from tributes.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Morphtronic monster (about 0.90 chance of at least one in 5 cards) plus Morphtronic Engine or Cord to set up the field, then use Accelerator or Mix-up for removal.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's removal (Mix-up, Cord, Slingen, Repair Unit) and Morphtransition to answer the opponent's board, then rebuild Morphtronic monsters from the Graveyard.
• Recovery: Gadget Arms searches a Morphtronic Spell or Trap from the Graveyard, Gadget Driver repositions Morphtronic monsters from hand, and Repair Unit and Factory of 100 Machines use Graveyard Morphtronic monsters.
• After siding: Not applicable: the Master Duel format used here has no side deck (Side Deck size 0).

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from how the system opens, converts, and recovers, not from averaging card scores. Fourteen Morphtronic monsters give about a 0.90 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and the 20-card distinct list is compact at 40 main-deck cards. Thirteen removal-text cards plus Morphtronic Mix-up, Cord, and Slingen give a reasonable interaction layer, and Gadget Arms and Gadget Driver add recovery and position control that support the Morphtronic engine. The deck has no hand traps, no combo records, no tournament or meta data, and no side deck, so its conversion, floor, matchup, and post-side scores are text-based estimates with low confidence. Archetype popularity and the Gadgets label did not earn points, and the usage-statistics core list has no overlap with this list.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55.3, Going First ≈ 59, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 53. Modifiers: No hand traps (-2); Engine compactness (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*55.3 + 0.20*53 = 54.8, modifiers net 0, rounded to 55

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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

• Compact 20-distinct-card list with a single dominant archetype core (30 of 40 cards)
• Morphtronic monster density gives a high chance of a live starter in the opening hand
• Layered targeted removal (Mix-up, Cord, Slingen, Repair Unit, Accelerator) with recursion through Gadget Arms and Factory of 100 Machines

Weaknesses

• No hand traps, floodgates, or recorded combo data to judge going-second strength
• Several conditional cards (Waboku, Mix-up, Accelerator, Factory of 100 Machines) can be dead in some hands
• No Extra Deck and no side deck, leaving no flexibility beyond the 40 main-deck cards

Critical choke points

• Dependence on Morphtronic monsters being in hand or the Graveyard for Mix-up, Accelerator, Factory of 100 Machines, and Hauler
• Gadget Arms and Gadget Driver are the only ways to reach the Graveyard recovery loop, so losing them to a clean board breaks recovery

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality under BanMasterDuel with all cards Unlimited at 3 copies or fewer and a 40-card main deck; Card text for all 20 distinct cards from the evidence pack; Composition counts: 30 Morphtronic, 7 Gadget, 2 generic, 1 Junk; 0 Extra and 0 Side
• Inferred: P(at least one Morphtronic monster in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.90 from hypergeometric calculation; Engine, recovery, and closing-power reads come from card text, not from recorded boards; Dimension scores D1 through D11 and the going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta power is null because no dated metagame sample is supplied; Format fit (D13) and post-side plan (D12) are neutral placeholders
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo 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 for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick, or starter rates Meta power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Usage-statistics core list (25 staples) has zero overlap with this Morphtronic list and was treated as not applicable No guides for the Morphtronic archetype were attached Master Duel has no side deck in this export, so post-side adaptability is unscorable