Bamboo Sword Deck #457367 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 50/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 51 / Extra 13 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link/Synchro/Xyz beatdown: Igknight Pendulum lines put Warrior bodies in play and the Extra Deck (Selene x2, Power Tool Braver Dragon, Benghalancer, Performage Trapeze) converts them into 2400–2700 ATK pressure (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards).; Bamboo Sword equip damage via Original/Cursed Bamboo Sword (Verified card text; 3 of 51 cards carry the exact archetype name).
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with an Igknight Pendulum pair (one scale-2 and one scale-7 card, 12 copies each), use the Pendulum effect to add a FIRE Warrior from Deck or GY, then Link or Synchro into a board (Inferred).
• Turn 2 (going second): Pendulum starter plus searcher chains (Painful Decision, Summoner's Art, Magical Mallet) to rebuild on a stronger hand; interaction is thin with no hand traps (Inferred).
• Recovery: Pendulum and Warrior recursion from GY (Spore, Ruddy Rose Witch, Igknight search effects) plus Magical Mallet to refill (Inferred).
• After siding: None: the deck has 0 side deck cards, so there is no post-side plan (Verified).

Why it scores here

The deck's real engine is an 8-card Igknight Pendulum set (24 copies), not the Bamboo Sword label: only 3 of 51 main cards carry the exact archetype name, and the archetype's standard core (Golden Bamboo Sword, Upstart Goblin, Royal Magical Library) is absent. Consistency earns the most credit because the Pendulum pair is accessible (about 97% chance of at least one Igknight in an opening 5, Inferred) and 34 searcher-text copies reduce bricks. Conversion and closing power are plausible from the Link/Synchro/Xyz bodies and their 2400–2700 ATK, but there are no recorded boards, so the median and ceiling are read from text only. Interaction is weak (no hand traps, no floodgates, few negation effects) and there is no side deck, which holds the score down. Popularity and archetype share earned no points, and the score is the system-level read, not an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: No side deck (weak post-side plan) (-2); Engine/archetype mismatch (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.79 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.03 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Engine redundancy: 24 Igknight Pendulum copies across 8 distinct cards with both scale-2 and scale-7 pairs at 12 copies each
• Searcher density (34 searcher-text copies) lowers brick risk
• Extra Deck covers Link, Synchro and Xyz bodies at 2400–2700 ATK

Weaknesses

• No side deck (0 cards), so no post-side plan
• Engine does not match the archetype label: 3 of 51 cards are Bamboo Sword and the standard core (Golden Bamboo Sword, Upstart Goblin, Royal Magical Library) is absent
• Little interaction: no hand traps, no floodgates, negation text only on Rescue Ferret and Power Tool Braver Dragon
• Four equip spells (Mage Power, Double-Edged Sword, Axe of Despair, Broken Bamboo Sword) with no shared target engine

Critical choke points

• Pendulum Summon needs two Pendulum Zone cards with differing scales; scale-2 and scale-7 are each 12 copies, so both halves must be drawn
• Link/Synchro/Xyz extenders depend on an Igknight or Warrior hitting the field first

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 51 / Extra 13 / Side 0 are within the MasterDuel size rules (40–60 / 0–15 / 0–15); Limited cards Predaplant Verte Anaconda and Reinforcement of the Army are run at their legal copy count of 1; Exact Bamboo Sword names: 3 of 51 main cards; Igknight Pendulum: 24 copies; Pendulum scales: scale 2 on Paladin, Crusader, Cavalier, Gallant (12 copies); scale 7 on Squire, Margrave, Veteran, Templar (12 copies); Extra ATKs: Power Tool Braver Dragon 2500, Benghalancer 2500, Performage Trapeze 2700, Igknight Cavalier 2400; 0 hand traps and 0 floodgates in role tags
• Inferred: P(≥1 Igknight in opening 5) ≈ 0.966 and P(≥2) ≈ 0.786 (hypergeometric, computed here); Pendulum Summon feasibility from scale pairs; Going-first and going-second scores are weighted blends of dimension scores
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup/format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Usage statistics show the standard Bamboo Sword core absent (3 of 24 core cards present), so this build deviates from archetype norms Role-tag regex over-counts 'removal': Igknight Pendulum effects destroy the player's own Pendulum Zone cards, which is not removal