Ghoti Deck #533718 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 42/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Control via repeated banish effects and fish Synchro board clearance; Resource generation through draw engines and recursion
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Fish tuner (e.g., Hop Ear Squadron, Paces, Zep) to Synchro into a board‑breaker or set up banish recursion; establish draw engines if possible.
• Turn 2 (going second): Utilize Maxx "C" hand‑trap and quick‑effect Synchro (Ghoti of the Deep Beyond, White Aura Whale) to respond to opponent's board and create a decisive banish sweep.
• Recovery: Recursively banish and revive key Fish monsters via their own effects (Snopios, Keaf, Paces) and draw cards to refill resources.
• After siding: None – the deck has no Side Deck and thus lacks a dedicated post‑side adaptation plan.

Why it scores here

The Ghoti list reliably launches a Fish‑tuner engine in the opening hand (≈95% core starter probability) and can quickly establish banish‑based control lines. Its many draw and recursion effects give decent resource economy, while the plethora of banish‑or‑destroy synchro monsters provide solid board‑clearance interaction. However, the deck suffers from low archetype purity, no side deck, and an illegal Maxx "C" copy, which heavily penalizes its practical reliability and pilotability, keeping the overall contextual power modest.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Illegal copy limit violation (-20). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) with -20 illegal penalty

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Very high starter consistency for core Fish tuners
• Strong banish‑recursion loops and board‑clearance synchro monsters
• Multiple draw engines to sustain resources

Weaknesses

• Low archetype purity; many off‑archetype cards dilute focus
• No Side Deck, limiting matchup adaptation
• Complex conditional plays increase error tolerance demands
• Illegal over‑copy of Maxx "C" prevents legal play

Critical choke points

• Maxx "C" copy limit violation makes deck illegal
• Reliance on specific Fish tuners; missing core Ghoti synchro monsters reduces engine robustness

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: legality status and copy limits; card text excerpts for draw and banish effects
• Inferred: core starter probability 0.9489; brick estimate 0.0511; lack of combo boards; resource loops from draw engines; bypass interaction from synchro effects; complexity of conditional effects
• Provisional: matchup format fit due to missing tournament data
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text‑only inference no tournament link — archetype meta‑share and per‑pilot match record absent no win‑rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — signals are Inferred or Unknown