Golden Land Deck #455208 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Eldlich fusion bosses (Eldlich the Mad Golden Lord 3800 ATK) and Dragonecro Nethersoul Dragon (3000 ATK) after a Graveyard-recursion setup; Skull Servant and Wight Graveyard recursion into King of the Skull Servants and Skeletal Dragon Felgrand
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Skull Servant, Wightbaking or Wightlord to start the Graveyard engine, pivot into Eldlich or the Golden Land traps for a fusion or synchro board, and keep Ash Blossom up
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Dark Hole, Evenly Matched or Golden Land Forever to clear or stop the opponent's board, then rebuild with Skull Servant recursion and a Fusion Summon
• Recovery: Recover through Graveyard effects (Wightprince, Wightmare, The Lady in Wight, King of the Skull Servants) and the Eldlixir and Huaquero set effects
• After siding: Not available: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal: it runs two copies of Called by the Grave, which is Forbidden in Master Duel with 0 legal copies, so it cannot receive a normal Final Contextual score and is capped as theoretical and structural only. The structural read finds a Graveyard-recursion Skull Servant and Wight engine, an Eldlich fusion line and Golden Land support that together can reach a strong closing board (up to 3800 ATK), backed by layered negations (two Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring, two Golden Land Forever, Evenly Matched, Dark Hole). Consistency is the weak point: each three-copy starter appears in a 5-card opening hand only about 23% of the time, and about half of opening hands contain none of the seven core Golden Land cards. The 60-card Main Deck has only 8 exact-name Golden Land cards alongside 66 off-archetype copies, and it has no Side Deck, so adaptability after sideboarding is minimal. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn any points, and the individual card scores were not averaged into the deck result.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); no side deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(48) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 46.4, plus modifiers (-10) = 36, capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical and structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.23 · 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

• Strong Extra Deck closers (Eldlich the Mad Golden Lord, Dragonecro Nethersoul Dragon, Skeletal Dragon Felgrand)
• Layered negations and hand traps (two Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring, two Golden Land Forever, Evenly Matched, Dark Hole)
• Graveyard recursion gives repeated Special Summons after a board is cleared

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two copies of a Forbidden card
• Three-copy starters rarely appear in the opening five cards
• Only 8 exact-name Golden Land cards; the deck is spread across three sub-archetypes
• No Side Deck, so no adaptation between games

Critical choke points

• Called by the Grave must leave the list before the deck can be played in Master Duel
• Skull Servant and Wight starters for the Graveyard engine
• Eldlich the Golden Lord and Eldlixir for the fusion line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Called by the Grave is Forbidden with 0 legal copies and is run twice; Main Deck is 60 cards and Extra Deck is 14 cards, within the size rules for this format; Boss ATK values (3800, 3000, 2800) are from card data; Archetype purity is 8 exact-name cards of 74 total
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency estimates from hypergeometric draw odds; Brick rate and dead-card estimate from the copy histogram and card text; Going-first and going-second strength from the card text and interaction count; Combo ceiling read from card text alone, since no recorded boards exist
• Provisional: Median output and format fit, since no recorded boards and no dated metagame sample exist; Meta Power is null
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no Side Deck in the list, so post-side adaptability cannot be assessed