Stardust Deck #467784 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 50 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro and Link beatsticks, mainly Centur-Ion Legatia, Cosmic Blazar Dragon, Centur-Ion Auxila, Bystial Dis Pater and Shooting Majestic Star Dragon, plus the Bystial and Centur-Ion board-pressure monsters; Chaos Angel and Baronne de Fleur as removal-led finishers once the board is already stabilized
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a searcher such as Tuning, Chaos Space or Centur-Ion Primera, hold up hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C) against the opponent's first summon, then convert into a Synchro Summon from the Centur-Ion or Synchron line
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand traps and Maxx C to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild with Bystial and Centur-Ion monsters from the Graveyard and Banished zone and summon a large Synchro monster
• Recovery: Recover through searchers (Synchron tuners, Centur-Ion Gargoyle II, Bystial Druiswurm) and Graveyard-based summons, since the deck runs many searchers and recursive monsters
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The list is illegal as built: Called by the Grave is Forbidden and runs two copies, and Maxx C is over its single-copy limit, so the score is a structural estimate capped low and is theoretical only. Structurally the deck has broad access to its searchers (about 90 percent of openings contain one) and a dense set of hand traps, so it can open and interrupt. Its engine is incoherent, though: only 3 of 65 cards carry the exact Stardust name and about 62 cards belong to other archetypes such as Centur-Ion, Bystial, Chaos and Synchron, so it does not run a single engine. No recorded boards exist for this deck, so the conversion ceiling and median output are unmeasured, and the deck has no side deck, so it cannot adapt after a game. The score reflects the consistency and interaction of the system as built, not the popularity of the Stardust name or an average of its individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (structural estimate for theoretical use only). Structural ≈ 42, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 38, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflicts (-4); no side deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal list: theoretical structural estimate capped low. 0.80*Structural(42) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + ContextModifiers(-12) = 30; Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.73 · 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

• Broad searcher access (about 0.91 chance of one in an opening five)
• Eight hand traps give early interaction
• Full Extra Deck of distinct Synchro and Link threats with high ATK options

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Forbidden card and over-limit Maxx C
• Engine is split across about ten archetypes with only 3 exact Stardust cards
• No side deck for best-of-three games
• No recorded boards to confirm the combos

Critical choke points

• Summoning the Synchro beatsticks depends on a tuner being live, so losing the early tuners stalls the whole Extra Deck plan
• Forbidden Called by the Grave is not usable in Master Duel, which removes one of the main negation tools

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 50 and Extra Deck 15 counts are within master-duel size limits; Called by the Grave is Forbidden with 2 copies run; Maxx C is Limited with 2 copies run; Side deck is empty; Exact-name archetype purity is 4.6 percent
• Inferred: Opening-hand estimates for the archetype core and searchers; Hand-trap interaction density and layering; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Format fit and matchup coverage, since no dated metagame sample exists
• Data gaps: No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling, median and per-starter output are unknown No tournament link, so archetype share and pilot results are absent No win-rate telemetry exists for this deck Meta power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Only one guide is attached and it is not a full strategy document