Ghoti Deck #457477 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±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. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro boss (Askaan, Ghoti of the Deep Beyond, Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying, Adamancipator Risen - Dragite) summoned off a banish-fuelled Fish board; Stardust Dragon / Satellite Warrior / Timelord Progenitor Vorpgate as backup Synchro bosses
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Psiics or Snopios, banish Fish to build Tuners and Synchro material, then Synchro Summon Askaan or Arionpos
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Maxx "C" or Retaliating "C" to draw and disrupt, then recover Fish from the GY and banish Synchro boards on the opponent's turn
• Recovery: Banished Paces, Zep and Shif return in the next Standby Phase, and Psiics and Snopios can add or summon Fish from the Deck
• After siding: No side Deck is listed, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck's structure is a banish-fuelled Fish engine: 13 searcher-text cards and a 0.88 chance of at least one searcher in the opening 5 give it a reasonable route to a live Tuner and Synchro starter. Its Synchro bosses (ATK 2100 to 3000) and banish-based recursion of Paces, Zep and Shif give it a plausible closing and grind game. Interaction is thin: only Maxx "C" and Retaliating "C" are disruption, and there is no negation text in the evidence, so the end-board and going-second scores are held down. The deck is Illegal because Maxx "C" is run at 2 copies against a limit of 1, so it does not receive a normal Final Contextual score and is capped at 30 as a theoretical, structural-only read. No combos, win-rate telemetry or side deck exist, so every consistency claim is Inferred and the score is not an average of card scores; popularity from usage statistics confirms the archetype is real but earned no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 54.6, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist_exposure_illegal_copy (-12). Final formula: Normal formula 0.80*Structural(54.6) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) + modifiers(-12) ≈ 42; Illegal cap applied, theoretical structural-only, final 30 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · 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

• Dense Fish starter package with multiple searchers and banish-to-summon recursion
• Strong Synchro boss suite (Askaan, Swordsoul, Dragite, Stardust)
• Several recovery routes through banished Tuners and GY Fish

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Maxx "C" at 2 copies exceeds the Limited limit
• No negation or Floodgate; only two disruption cards
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Mixed sub-archetypes (Bystial, Mulcharmy, Stardust, Adamancipator) dilute engine coherence

Critical choke points

• Maxx "C" over the copy limit makes the whole list unplayable as legal
• A single Tuner plus Fish combination gates most Synchro summons
• No second hand-trap route if both Maxx "C" copies are dead

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Maxx "C" over copy limit: 2 copies against legal limit 1 (Limited); Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within Master Duel size rules; Archetype purity exact-name 36.4%; Boss ATKs from card data (Askaan 2700, Swordsoul 3000, Dragite 3000)
• Observed: Archetype usage stats show the Ghoti core (Hop Ear, Psiics) is standard in this archetype
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability and brick estimate from hypergeometric draws; Interaction density read from card text; Going-first and going-second split estimated without combo data
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• 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, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck present; post-side scores rest on composition only