Endymion Deck #455076 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Endymion Pendulum counter engine that destroys field cards and converts counters into Link pressure (Link Summons such as Selene and Crusadia Avramax); Link and Synchro beaters (Chaos Angel, Underworld Goddess of the Closed World) once the board is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher such as Spell Power Mastery or Servant of Endymion, build Spell counters, then Pendulum Summon into a Link Summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to find a starter and rebuild after the opponent's interaction; the deck has no hand traps to contest a board
• Recovery: Pendulum Monsters and Spell searchers rebuild the hand; Mythical Beast monsters can revive themselves from the field
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its Endymion core (15 copies) is reliably reachable, with roughly a 92% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and about 90% for at least one of its 14 searcher-text cards. Its interaction text (negation and removal across 8 and 14 cards) gives it end-board layers, and its Link finishers provide closing pressure. Its weak points are the brick rate from about 27% exact-name archetype purity, the lack of any recorded combo boards to confirm a median or ceiling, and the absence of a side deck. Two Forbidden copies (Called by the Grave x2) and one Forbidden Apollousa make the list illegal, so the score is capped at theoretical level. Archetype popularity and the single guide did not add points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers (-8) = 42.6, then capped at 35 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural only); Meta Power provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Core Endymion cards are reliably reachable in the opening hand
• Large searcher and removal/negation text count gives layered interaction
• Link finishers (Chaos Angel, Crusadia Avramax, Underworld Goddess) give strong end-board stats

Weaknesses

• Two Forbidden cards make the list illegal in Master Duel
• Low exact-name archetype purity (about 27%) increases brick risk
• No recorded boards, so the combo median and ceiling are unverified
• No side deck, so there is no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Only 3 copies of the Endymion starter give about a 34% chance of one in the opening hand
• The Pendulum counter engine depends on several Spell resolutions, so one disruption can stall the line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 40 cards and Extra Deck 15 cards are within Master Duel size rules; Called by the Grave (2 copies) and Apollousa (1 copy) are Forbidden; Exact-name archetype purity is 27.3%; No side deck is registered
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probabilities from hypergeometric draws; Going-first and going-second estimates from card text; Interaction and resilience reads from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated meta sample)
• Data gaps: No recorded combo boards exist, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so there is no archetype meta-share or pilot record No win-rate telemetry exists for going-first, going-second, matchups or brick rate Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample