Black Luster Soldier Deck #465643 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit Dragon and Dragon Master Magia as large bodies, reached through Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Fusion/Synchro routes; Blue-Eyes Tyrant Dragon and Stardust Sifr as follow-up boards
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Sage, Maiden of White, Primite Lordly Lode or Wishes for Eyes of Blue, then build a Synchro or Fusion board while holding Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence for interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Effect Veiler, Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Maxx 'C' to disrupt the opposing turn, then rebuild through Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon or Dragon Master Magia
• Recovery: Recover through Primite Dragon Ether Beryl, Master with Eyes of Blue and graveyard recursion of Tuners
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no side deck and the list runs 0 side cards

Why it scores here

This list would be a real but illegal Master Duel deck: it runs 2 copies of Maxx 'C' against a limit of 1 and 2 copies of the Forbidden Called by the Grave, so under the rubric it receives only a structural read capped at 30. Structurally it is a Midrange shell with 16 searchers, 10 hand traps and about 25 negation or removal effects, which gives it resilience and a strong late-game board of Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, Dragon Master Magia and Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit Dragon. Its weak points are the split between Blue-Eyes, Primite, Black Luster Soldier, Archfiend, Fleur and Stardust lines, which dilutes the engine, and a starter density where Blue-Eyes White Dragon is in the opening 5 only about 24% of the time. No recorded boards, tournament record or side deck exist, so floor and matchup scores are Provisional. Popularity and archetype usage were not counted as power, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary, disclosed as a structural read only. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Pre-cap: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) = 54, minus banlist modifier -12 = 42; Illegal cap (copy-limit and Forbidden violations) sets the final to 30 as a theoretical, structural-only read

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · 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 searcher and negation text, giving most hands a first action
• Layered hand-trap and removal interaction with four hand traps and Crossout Designator
• Large closing bodies in the Extra Deck, including 4500, 5000 and 3500 ATK monsters

Weaknesses

• Two copies of a Forbidden card and an over-limit Limited card make the list illegal as built
• Engine is split across several sub-archetypes with no shared core
• Blue-Eyes White Dragon, the central starter, is in the opening 5 only about 24% of the time
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Blue-Eyes White Dragon count (2 copies) gates most Blue-Eyes Extra Deck routes
• Reliance on Tuners for every Synchro route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 and Extra 15 are inside Master Duel size rules; Called by the Grave Forbidden, run at 2 copies; Maxx 'C' Limited, run at 2 copies; Extra Deck composition 10 Synchro, 3 Fusion, 2 Link; Card stats for listed Extra Deck monsters
• Inferred: Starter probabilities from hypergeometric estimates; Hand-trap and negation coverage read from card text; Ceiling read from Blue-Eyes text
• Provisional: Meta and matchup fit; Median output without recorded boards; 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 match record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Illegal list: no normal Final score applies until the copy-limit violations are fixed