Nordic Deck #540781 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Special Summon Nordic/Aesir boss monsters via Alviss, Gullinbursti, and Link/Synchro engines; Hand‑trap control and board disruption
• Turn 1 (going first): Set hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler), search for a starter (Nordic Beast Gullinbursti, Nordic Smith Ivaldi) and attempt an early special summon of a Nordic monster.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6‑card hand to flood hand traps, lock opponent draws with Droll & Lock Bird, then summon a boss (e.g., Odin or Thor) and protect with Relic Svalinn.
• Recovery: Draw engines (Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Number 75) and recursion (Nordic Relic Svalinn, Emergency Teleport) rebuild the board after disruption.
• After siding: No side deck; rely on the built‑in hand‑trap suite and extra‑deck flexibility to adapt in best‑of‑3.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens with at least one Nordic core card (≈92% chance) and a suite of hand traps, giving it decent consistency. Its engine, however, is spread across many sub‑archetypes and over‑copies, which creates brick risk and lowers efficiency. Interaction density is moderate thanks to multiple negation traps and board‑breakers, but the lack of recorded combo data limits its ceiling. Resource recovery exists via draw engines and recursion, yet the extra‑deck is under‑utilised and the side deck is empty, reducing adaptability. Overall the illegal over‑copy violations further depress its practical power, so the final contextual score is capped low.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Illegal over‑copy violation (-5). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.08 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High chance to open with a Nordic core card
• Robust hand‑trap suite for disruption
• Multiple draw and recursion engines

Weaknesses

• Illegal over‑copy violations
• Low archetype purity and many off‑archetype cards
• No side deck and limited extra‑deck focus
• No recorded combo data; ceiling uncertain

Critical choke points

• Reliance on specific Nordic starters (e.g., Alviss, Gullinbursti) that may be absent in opening hand
• Over‑copy of Emergency Teleport and Droll & Lock Bird causing illegality and potential hand redundancy

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: legality status and copy limits; card text excerpts for each listed card; hypergeometric probabilities from evidence.json
• Inferred: engine accessibility from archetype core probability; brick estimate from copy histogram; combo ceiling and floor from lack of combo boards; resource economy from draw engine cards; interaction quality from role_hint_tags and interaction_density_avg; going‑second board breaking from hand‑trap group probability; offensive closing power from boss monster stats; main‑deck efficiency from archetype purity and copy distribution; extra‑deck efficiency from extra_deck_breakdown; side‑deck adaptability from side_count = 0; matchup format fit provisional due to missing tournament data; pilotability from number of tech cards and decision points
• Provisional: meta power (no dated metagame sample)
• 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 (going‑first/second, matchup, game‑level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied