World Chalice Deck #444473 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Xyz pressure from the Extra Deck (Avramax, Underworld Goddess, Knightmare Gryphon, Dragite) once World Chalice and Spright starters reach the field; Hand-trap and negation-supported board control that lets the Link pressure stick
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a World Chalice or Spright starter, extend through Lee or Spright Jet/Blue searches, then Link Summon into a 3000-ATK boss while holding Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C) to answer the opponent's first summon, then rebuild the board with Spright and World Chalice bodies
• Recovery: Recover through Lee and Spright searches from the Graveyard and Spright Blue's search, plus Draconnet and Fuwalos draw effects
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists; the deck cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: its starters and interaction are judged together, not averaged from individual card ratings. Its engine is spread across World Chalice, Spright, and World Legacy, with only 16% of the main deck sharing the exact archetype name, so the openers are plentiful but the lines are not very coherent. Interaction is the strongest part of the list: 13 negation effects, 10 hand traps, and 14 removal effects give it a reasonable chance to answer a first summon when going second. Offensive power comes from several 3000-ATK Link and Xyz bosses, but no recorded boards exist, so conversion and median output are inferred from card text only. The score is capped because the list is illegal (Called by the Grave is Forbidden and runs twice, Maxx C runs two copies against a limit of one) and the deck has no side deck. Popularity did not earn points; the archetype's usage stats confirm the core cards but do not raise the score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with a Toolbox secondary, disclosed as an approximation. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); No side deck (-4). Final formula: Illegal list: no normal score. Structural 49 is computed as 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 47 before modifiers; modifiers of -12 bring it to 35, and the illegal-list cap reduces it to 25. Theoretical and structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.68 · 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

• Ten hand traps and thirteen negation-text cards give strong answers to a first summon when going second
• Several 3000-ATK Link and Xyz bosses provide closing power from the Extra Deck
• Multiple starter families (World Chalice, Spright, World Legacy) give some independent opening routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Called by the Grave is Forbidden and two copies are run; Maxx C exceeds its Limited copy limit
• No side deck, so the deck cannot adapt between games
• Low exact-archetype purity (16%) means the engine is loosely connected

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Spright and World Chalice starters create a dependence on specific draws
• Banned or over-limit cards would be removed before any real event, changing the list

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 41 cards and Extra deck 15 cards are within the Master Duel size rules; Called by the Grave is Forbidden and runs 2 copies; Maxx C is Limited and runs 2 copies; No side deck is registered
• Observed: Usage stats show the archetype core cards are standard, and this list runs 6 of 25 core cards
• Inferred: Starter reliability ≈ 0.68 for at least one core-group card in a 5-card hand; Hand-trap coverage ≈ 0.84 when going second; Engine coherence is weak given 16% exact-archetype purity
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit, because no dated metagame sample is supplied
• Data gaps: No recorded combos, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and pilot results are absent No win-rate telemetry exists, so going-first and going-second performance is inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied