ZEXAL Deck #458144 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 24/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Stun
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Control
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 48 / Extra 6 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: No reliable win condition. The deck's plan is to negate or destroy the opponent's first plays with hand traps and spells, then close with an Egyptian God monster or a board wipe.; Three-Tribute Divine Beasts (Obelisk, Slifer, Winged Dragon of Ra Sphere Mode) as a late-game beatdown once a board exists.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a searcher or a Normal Summon, then hold up Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence as interaction. Going first has no reliable starter, so the plan depends on drawing a Tribute-capable board.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx "C", Nibiru) against the opponent's first summon, then convert with Raigeki or Lightning Storm if the board is established.
• Recovery: Recovery relies on Small World and Forbidden Droplet. There is no recursion, so a hand that spends its interaction early has no way to rebuild.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan. Any change to the list would be a rebuild.

Why it scores here

The deck has no engine: it is a stack of staples and hand traps with three copies of every distinct card, and no recorded boards exist to show it converts a starter into a board. Its strongest reads are interaction density (roughly 24 negation-text and 27 removal-text cards) and hand-trap redundancy, which give it a credible going-second stun plan. Twelve 3-Tribute Divine Beasts with no tribute enablers make the opening hand brick-prone, and the Extra Deck holds two cards whose materials the Main Deck does not supply. The list is illegal (Pot of Prosperity is Forbidden and four other cards exceed their copy limits), so the score is capped and reflects the structure only. Popularity did not earn points, and the card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Stun (meta-neutral: D13 dropped and weights renormalized over 86). Structural ≈ 37, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); tribute burden (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Illegal, so theoretical/structural-only: 0.80*37 + 0.20*30 = 35.6, minus 12 = 24)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.5 · 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 hand-trap and negation coverage, with 12 hand traps and roughly 24 negation-text cards
• Two board-wipe spells (Raigeki, Lightning Storm) for going-second conversion
• Strong going-second window: P(at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand) ≈ 0.84

Weaknesses

• The list is illegal: Pot of Prosperity is Forbidden and four other cards exceed their copy limits
• Twelve 3-Tribute Divine Beasts with no tribute enablers make many hands dead
• No archetype core: none of the usage-stat core cards are in the list
• Divine Arsenal needs two Level 12 materials, and the Main Deck has none
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Tribute requirement for Obelisk, Slifer and Ra Sphere Mode with no alternative Summon
• Searcher density: P(at least one searcher in an opening hand) ≈ 0.50
• Legality: the deck cannot be played in its current form

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 48, Extra Deck 6, Side Deck 0; Main and Extra sizes are within the master-duel size rules; Pot of Prosperity is Forbidden with 3 copies run; Maxx "C", Solemn Judgment and Crossout Designator are Limited with 3 copies run; Super Polymerization is Semi-Limited with 3 copies run; Card text for the listed cards, including the Tribute requirements of the Divine Beasts
• Inferred: Brick and dead-hand rates from Tribute requirements and hypergeometric draw odds; Interaction density read from card text; Going-second conversion from hand traps and board-wipe spells; Starter access and recovery from the searcher count
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated metagame sample); Matchup read (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No archetype usage core is present in the list; the usage statistics show 0 of 25 core cards