Gishki Deck #540528 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 49/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon Evigishki Neremanas (3000 ATK, 3 copies) using Gishki Ritual Spells and tribute fodder, then press with Link follow-through.; Link-chain pressure from Knightmare Unicorn, Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avramax, Marincess Coral Anemone and Abyss Keeper.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Gishki searcher (14 searcher-text cards, 90% chance of at least one in a 5-card hand) to fetch the Ritual line, then build toward Neremanas while holding hand traps.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence (about 65% chance of at least one hand trap) to disrupt the opposing board, then convert through Neremanas or a Link line.
• Recovery: Recur Gishki Aquamirror from the GY, add Gishki monsters with Focused Aquamirror and Mistar Boy, and rebuild through Herald of Pure Light.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side 0), so no post-side plan can be evaluated from the evidence.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reasonably often: 14 searcher-text cards give about a 90% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand, and the Gishki searchers feed the Ritual line into Evigishki Neremanas. Interaction is a real strength, with 6 hand traps (Infinite Impermanence and Ash Blossom, 3 copies each) and Duster/Pot-level removal, which keeps the engine alive through one common interruption. Converting into pressure relies on Neremanas and a broad Link Extra Deck, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences. Score reflects consistency, interaction and resilience on the system, not the popularity of Gishki and not an average of card scores; the 38% exact-name purity and the mix of Knightmare, Marincess, Charmer and Herald Link/Xyz cards are treated as engine-conflict risk. Post-side and matchup strength are unscored because there is no Side Deck and no dated meta sample.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 56.8, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-3); weak post-side plan (-2); ritual line concentration (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated sample) = 0.80*56.8 + 0.20*50 - 6 = 49.4

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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 text (14 cards) gives high starter access
• Six hand traps (Infinite Impermanence and Ash Blossom, 3 copies each) provide interaction on both turns
• High-ATK closers (Neremanas, Avramax, Unicorn) with a wide Link Extra Deck
• Legal and compact 40-card main with 15-card Extra

Weaknesses

• Only one Gishki Ritual Monster in the Main Deck, so the Ritual line concentrates on Neremanas
• 38% exact-archetype purity; multiple unrelated Link and Xyz sub-archetypes compete for the engine
• No Side Deck and no post-side plan
• No recorded combos, so the ceiling and median cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• Neremanas is the single Ritual payoff; its tribute and Ritual Spell requirements are the main failure point (Inferred)
• Searcher-to-Vision/Neremanas chain: losing Gishki Vision removes the direct path to the ritual monster (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 legal in master-duel; Harpie's Feather Duster and Pot of Extravagance Limited, 1 copy run each; Copy histogram and Extra Deck breakdown (14 Link, 1 Xyz)
• Inferred: Starter access 0.90 from searcher group hypergeometric; Ritual-line concentration on Neremanas; Engine conflict from 38% exact-archetype purity; Structural score 56.8 from Midrange profile
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No Side Deck; post-side performance cannot be evaluated Usage statistics core list is dominated by non-Gishki cards (Drytron, Number, Ashlan), so it likely reflects a different build family and was not used to judge deviation No win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup rates are unknown Deck title is null