Chaos Deck #49359 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Link boards built from the Dark Magician shell, closing with 3000-ATK Extra Deck monsters (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Dark Magician the Dragon Knight and Master of Chaos, which negate or banish the opponent's field when they are summoned (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search or draw Dark Magician-family starters with Magician's Rod, Magicians' Souls and Soul Servant, then extend into Link or Fusion summons (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Maxx C for hand-trap interaction, then rebuild through Magicians' Souls and Soul Servant recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Soul Servant and Magicians' Souls return cards from the GY to the Deck or hand (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: None: the side deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is structurally a Dark Magician engine with Chaos and Link support, and its draw and search package is coherent on paper: the 3-copy starters have about a 34% chance of appearing in a going-first opening hand, and the archetype core is about 69% likely to show at least one card. Its closing power comes from several 3000-ATK Extra Deck monsters and a set of hand traps for going second. The score is not an average of card scores: it reflects how the system opens, converts and interacts together. Low engine coherence (only 5.5% of main-deck cards carry the exact archetype name), no recorded boards, and an empty side deck pull the structural read down. The list is illegal in Master Duel because it runs three Forbidden cards and three Limited cards over their limits, so the score is capped and is theoretical only. Popularity and archetype usage were not credited as strength.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: theoretical/structural-only. Uncapped 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers = 35; capped to 25. Meta Power provisional/null.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Dark Magician core (Magician's Rod, Magicians' Souls, Soul Servant, Dark Magician Girl, Eternal Soul) gives a draw and search package on paper
• Three 3000-ATK Extra Deck monsters (Master of Chaos, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, Black Luster Soldier) and 2800-ATK The Dark Magicians provide closing power
• Ash Blossom and Maxx C give going-second interaction

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: six copy-limit violations, including three Forbidden cards
• Only 3 of 40 main cards carry the exact Chaos name, so engine coherence is low
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded boards, so the real output is unverified

Critical choke points

• Most lines depend on Dark Magician being on the field or in the GY, so losing the shell removes the engine
• Forbidden cards occupy 5 copies of the main deck and must be replaced before the list is playable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 and Extra 15 are within Master Duel size limits; Six copy-limit violations, including three Forbidden cards; Side deck is empty; Archetype and card-type data for the listed cards
• Observed: No recorded boards exist for this deck
• Inferred: Starter odds of about 0.34 for 3-copy cards going first; Low engine coherence from 5.5% exact archetype purity; Dimension scores are structural estimates from card text and composition
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit, with no dated metagame sample; Meta Power is null
• Data gaps: No recorded boards, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so meta share and match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists for this deck Side deck is empty, so post-side behaviour is unknown