Gadgets Deck #460314 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 38/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz and Synchro boss pressure: Number 91 Thunder Spark Dragon (2400 ATK, board-wipe via detach), Number 59 Crooked Cook (2300 ATK), Old Entity Cthugua (2200 ATK) and Elder Entity N'tss (2500 ATK); Link and Xyz card-advantage lines through Mecha Phantom Beast Auroradon, Barricadeborg Blocker and Primathmech Alembertian, plus draw-spell card advantage
• Turn 1 (going first): Inferred: open a starter (Gadget Gamer, Gizmek or Morphtronic Telefon, each 3 copies) and use its Normal Summon or Special Summon text to reach a Level 4 Extra Deck boss; the first-turn hit rate is low (about 0.32 per specific 3-copy card in hand)
• Turn 2 (going second): Inferred: a six-card hand has about 0.79 chance of containing one of the nine core starters, but no hand traps or negation exist, so the second-turn plan depends on Thunder Spark Dragon or Cthugua board breaking
• Recovery: Inferred: recover through Machine Duplication, Gadget Gamer and Garden Rose Maiden GY-revive text, and refill the hand with Pot of Avarice, Into the Void, Upstart Goblin or Gold Moon Coin
• After siding: No post-side plan: Master Duel has no sideboard in this build (Side Deck size 0)

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan on a low-probability basis: each 3-copy starter appears in a going-first opening hand only about 32% of the time, and about 72% of the time when the nine core starters are pooled. Once live, it converts into Extra Deck bosses (Thunder Spark Dragon, Crooked Cook, Cthugua, N'tss) and gains card advantage from its draw and search density, which is the main source of its score. Interaction is thin: there are no hand traps, floodgates or negation cards, so the deck scores low on going-second board breaking and endboard quality. The score was built on the system (consistency, median output, interaction and resilience together), not from averaging card powers or from the Gadgets archetype label, which the 0% exact-name purity and the 4% core-card presence do not support. No combo boards, tournament link or matchup data were supplied, so the ceiling, median and meta read stay Inferred or Provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 45, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 38, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Conflicting engines (-4); No hand traps or negation (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers (-6); Structural 45.09, TR 42, pre-modifier 44.5, final 38

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.32 · 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

• High draw and search density: 3x Pot of Avarice, 3x Into the Void, Upstart Goblin, Gold Moon Coin, Memories of Hope
• Strong Extra Deck boss options with 2200 to 2500 ATK and Thunder Spark Dragon board-wipe text
• All 15 Extra Deck slots used with Synchro, Xyz, Link and Fusion access

Weaknesses

• Low single-starter access: each 3-copy starter appears in about 32% of going-first opening hands
• No hand traps, floodgates or negation text: going-second interaction is missing
• 0% exact-name archetype purity: six sub-archetypes share the Main Deck, and only 1 of 25 usage-core cards is present (4%)
• No sideboard: no post-side adaptation is possible

Critical choke points

• Gadget Gamer, Gizmek and Morphtronic Telefon are the only confirmed early starters; without them the early game relies on draw spells
• Foolish Burial and One for One are single-copy Limited cards that each carry a choke role

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 42 Main, 15 Extra, Limited cards Foolish Burial and One for One at 1 copy each; Card text and stats for all listed cards; Hypergeometric draw odds from the Main Deck
• Inferred: Starter reliability and brick-rate estimates; Going-first and going-second plan descriptions; Ceiling and median reads from card text (no boards recorded); Engine-coherence and interaction-quality judgements
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament or win-rate data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first, going-second, matchup, starter or brick rates) Usage statistics show only 1 of 25 core cards present (4%), so the Gadgets baseline is a weak comparison Master Duel has no sideboard in this build, so D12 has no post-side evidence Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied