Crusadia Deck #455478 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 32/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Crusadia boss monsters (Avramax, Equimax) using archetype starters to establish board control and board presence for damage output; Fusion Summon with Destiny HERO engines (Fusion Destiny) or grind value with Fiendsmith/Horus sub-engines
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Crusadia starter, Link Summon into Avramax or Equimax, set up interaction and board control with 2-3 negations/removal effects, survive opponent's turn one disruption
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler) and removal (Forbidden Droplet, Called by the Grave) to disrupt opponent's combo, then pivot into own offensive turn
• Recovery: Crusadia monsters (Arboria, Draco, Reclusia) can be Special Summoned from hand to Link Monster zones to extend plays; Horus engine (Imsety, King's Sarcophagus) provides GY recursion; Fiendsmith recursion via Fiendsmith's Tract and Sequence
• After siding: No side deck available (Master Duel format allows 0-15 side cards); deck is locked into main-deck configuration with no best-of-3 adaptation

Why it scores here

This deck is illegal in Master Duel format and receives a theoretical-only structural evaluation. The list deviates sharply from the Crusadia archetype core (28.6% of recommended core cards present) and splashes incompatible engines (Fiendsmith, Horus, Kashtira, Adventurer, Destiny HERO) without clear synergy, creating a fragmented 60-card pile. Archetype starter reliability is modest (~72% P[≥1 Crusadia engine card] in opening 5), median combo output is unclear due to absent combo evidence, and the extra-deck is overloaded (15 slots) with redundant Link monsters and Fusions that compete for summoning resources. The deck lacks coherent turn-one lines and relies heavily on hand traps for going-second viability, but banlist violations (Maxx C ×2, Called by the Grave ×2, Apollousa Forbidden) prevent legal play. Popularity of the Crusadia archetype in YGOVN does not compensate for broken construction and illegality.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Illegal Status (-16); Severe Archetype Deviation (-8); No Combo Evidence (-4); No Side Deck (-2). Final formula: Theoretical Only (Illegal Deck). If legalized: 0.80*Structural(48) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) = 46.8; capped at 32 due to illegal status, major banlist violations (Apollousa Forbidden, Maxx C ×2, Called by the Grave ×2), severe archetype deviation (28.6% core), and absent combo evidence.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.72 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.28 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Hand-trap density (11 copies across Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird) provides strong going-second disruption potential
• Crusadia Avramax (3000 ATK, negation loop) and Equimax (multi-target quick-effect negation) are mechanically sound boss monsters when resolved
• Multiple searcher effects (17 searcher-text cards) allow toolbox flexibility in a given turn
• Removal package (Forbidden Droplet, Called by the Grave, S:P Little Knight) addresses diverse opponent board states
• Fiendsmith and Horus sub-engines provide optional recursion and grind mechanics if the primary Crusadia line stalls

Weaknesses

• ILLEGAL: Three banlist violations (Apollousa Forbidden ×1, Maxx C ×2 over-limit, Called by the Grave ×2 over-limit) prevent play in Master Duel format
• Severe archetype deviation (28.6% core card inclusion vs 100% expected); 8 independent sub-engines create resource conflicts and confusing play patterns
• 60-card main deck increases brick rate and reduces consistency; no coherent turn-one synergy between engines
• No side deck (0 cards) eliminates post-match adaptability for best-of-3; deck is locked into this configuration
• Combo evidence absent (0 boards parsed); ceiling and median output are unknown, baseline estimates only
• Over-reliance on hand traps for going-second viability; if hand traps are negated, deck lacks recovery engine
• Extra Deck is overloaded (15 slots, 12 Links + 3 Fusions) with redundant summoning targets that compete for resources
• Fiendsmith, Horus, and Kashtira engines do not cascade with Crusadia lines; they operate independently, wasting deck space

Critical choke points

• Crusadia starter availability: P(≥1 in opening 5) ≈ 72%, meaning ~28% chance of no engine card in opener; hand traps fill this gap but do not advance board
• Banlist violations: Apollousa is Forbidden; Maxx C and Called by the Grave are Limited (1 copy each in format, deck runs 2 each). Deck cannot be submitted to tournament play.
• No coherent turn-one combo: Lacking key missing core cards (Formud Skipper, Parallel eXceed, Crusadia Power, Crusadia Revival, Crusadia Spatha), deck cannot execute standard Crusadia turnone line
• Engine fragmentation: If Crusadia starters are disrupted, Fiendsmith/Horus engines do not chain into the line; each engine is isolated
• Extra Deck bloat: 15-slot cap with 15 cards (12 Links + 3 Fusions) means no flexibility; every slot is committed
• No side deck: Zero post-match tech options; matchup variance is high and uncontrollable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal in Master Duel format (legality.status = 'Illegal'); Three banlist violations present: Apollousa (Forbidden, 0 legal), Maxx C (Limited, 1 legal, deck runs 2), Called by the Grave (Limited, 1 legal, deck runs 2); Main deck = 60 cards, Extra deck = 15 cards, Side = 0 cards (from legality / composition); Archetype exact-name purity = 15/75 = 20% (Crusadia only; from composition.archetype purity); Crusadia core-card presence = 6/21 = 28.6% (from usage statistics.core_cards_present / core_cards_total); Hand-trap density = 11 cards (Ash ×3, Maxx C ×2, Veiler ×2, Impermanence ×2, Droll & Lock ×2); Searcher-text density = 17 cards (from composition.role counts.searcher_text); Negation-text density = 13 cards (from composition.role counts.negation_text)
• Observed: Crusadia archetype usage in Master Duel shows 100% inclusion of Formud Skipper, S:P Little Knight, I:P Masquerena, Crusadia Spatha, Crusadia Power, Crusadia Revival, Parallel eXceed, Heavy Storm, Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avramax in competitive lists; this deck is missing all of them
• Inferred: P(≥1 Crusadia engine card in opening 5) ≈ 0.72 from archetype core (hypergeometric hypergeometric estimate with 13 core copies in 60 main); P(full brick, no engine and no hand trap in opening 5) ≈ 0.28 (1 - 0.72); Combo floor is unknown; best-case Crusadia line produces Avramax + Equimax (3000 + 2000 ATK) with 2-3 negation slots; median is estimated 52 due to resource conflicts and isolation of sub-engines; Going-first power is moderate (~52) because end-board is strong (Avramax negation loop) but opener reliability is weak (72%) and turn-one set-up time is long; Going-second power is moderate (~50) because hand-trap count (11 copies) is solid but engine disruption (8 competing sub-engines) leaves no recovery path once board is broken; Tournament reliability is weak (~42) due to high brick rate (28%), no side deck (0 adaptability), and banlist violations (illegal, cannot compete); Extra Deck efficiency is good semantically (Link monsters + Fusion monsters provide multi-option access) but operationally poor (15 committed slots, no room for flex, redundancy in Link Summons creates dead draws)
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample supplied. Crusadia archetype usage in tournament context is unknown for this exact Master Duel meta.; Matchup spread is unknown; deck's performance against common Master Duel archetypes (Kashtira, Tearlaments, Spright, Swordsoul, etc.) is not provided.; Combo variance (best vs median vs floor split) cannot be quantified without parsed boards; all combo claims are theoretical.
• Data gaps: Combo evidence completely absent: combo data.total combos = 0. No parsed boards means best line, median power index, board per starter, and going_first/going_second split are all unknown. Combo floor, ceiling, and median output are pure text inference (Inferred), not observed. No tournament link: tournament data.available = false. Archetype meta-share in Master Duel and per-pilot match records are absent. Meta Power cannot be computed and remains Provisional. No win-rate telemetry: YGOVN does not track going-first/second win rates, matchup-level performance, brick rates, or OTK frequency. All performance estimates (D5 interruption resilience, D9 closing power, going-first/second power scores) are Inferred from text analysis, not observed statistics. No side deck: Master Duel allows 0-15 side cards; this deck has 0. No post-match adaptation data exists, and D12 (side-deck adaptability) scores 0 by definition. Master Duel format context unknown: No dated metagame snapshot supplied. Archetype meta-share and common-matchup performance are unavailable. Recommendations assume standard Master Duel meta but cannot be validated without current meta data. Illegality blocks empirical evaluation: Banlist violations (Apollousa Forbidden, Maxx C ×2, Called by the Grave ×2) prevent the deck from being played in any official Master Duel event. All structural and performance estimates are theoretical only.