Black Luster Soldier Deck #463547 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 36/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Blue-Eyes and Synchro/Fusion boards (Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit Dragon, Stardust Sifr, Black Luster Soldier - Legendary Swordsman) converting through hand traps and negations.; Primite Dragon Ether Beryl and Primite searches feeding Normal Summons and Level 0 Spell/Trap bodies into Blue-Eyes plays.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Sage, Master, Lode, Wishes, Maiden) and hold Ash Blossom / Infinite Impermanence for the first opponent starter, then build toward Blue-Eyes White Dragon and a Synchro or Fusion extender.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 2 Effect Veiler and 3 Ash Blossom to answer the opponent's opening board, then rebuild through Blue-Eyes and Ultimate Fusion once the field is clear.
• Recovery: Recover via Maiden of White and Primite Lordly Lode searches from the GY, Gateway to Chaos counters, and Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon's GY-based effects.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adapt between games.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a playable plan reasonably often: with 16 searcher-text cards, P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.94 (Inferred), so the engine is usually reachable on turn 1. Its interaction density is the strongest part of the system: three Ash Blossom, three Infinite Impermanence, two Effect Veiler and two Maxx "C" give layered hand-trap coverage, and P(at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand) is about 0.85 (Inferred). The Blue-Eyes and Synchro/Fusion extra deck can convert those openings into large boards, but there are no recorded boards in the evidence, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference and are scored conservatively. The list is scored on the system as a whole, not by averaging card scores, and high archetype usage or popularity did not earn points: the archetype core is absent (0 of 25 standard core cards present) and exact-name purity is 3.6%. The deck is illegal under Master Duel rules (2 Forbidden Called by the Grave, 2 Maxx "C" against a limit of 1), so the score is theoretical and structural only, capped low, and has no side deck to adapt after game one.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal list: theoretical/structural only. No-meta form 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 48, then modifiers (−12) = 36, kept low under the illegal-deck cap.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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

• Layered hand-trap interaction: 3 Ash Blossom, 3 Infinite Impermanence, 2 Effect Veiler, 2 Maxx "C"
• Searcher density (16 searcher-text cards) gives a high chance of a live opening
• Large Blue-Eyes and Synchro boards with 4500/4000/3500 ATK ceilings in the Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 2 Forbidden Called by the Grave and 2 Maxx "C" over the limit
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are unmeasured
• Low archetype coherence (3.6% exact-name purity; 0 of 25 usage-stat core cards)

Critical choke points

• Illegal copy counts must be fixed before the list can be scored as a legal deck
• Blue-Eyes White Dragon (2 copies) as the main extender for several Blue-Eyes lines

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts; Called by the Grave Forbidden, 2 copies run; Maxx "C" Limited, 2 copies run against limit 1; Card text and stats for all 40 main-deck and 15 extra-deck entries; Composition histograms and archetype spread; Usage statistics show 0 of 25 core cards present
• Inferred: P(≥1 searcher in opening 5) ≈ 0.94 and P(≥1 hand trap in going-second 6) ≈ 0.85; Interaction breadth and durability from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta power and format fit (no tournament or dated metagame sample); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck is illegal, so the score is theoretical and structural only