ZEXAL Deck #588397 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±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: Xyz boss pressure from Utopia and Number monsters (2500 to 4000 ATK, led by Number 99: Utopic Dragon and Number 99: Utopia Dragonar) once a Rank-matched pair of Xyz monsters is on the field; Multi-Xyz chains through Rank-Up-Magic and Utopia transfer effects that turn one live Xyz into a larger one
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a searcher (Zexal Construction, Onomatopickup, or ZS - Armed Sage) into a Level 4 Warrior, Normal Summon into a two-monster Xyz, and build a Utopia or Number boss on turn 1 or 2
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to hold a negation (Dark Ruler No More, Number Protection, Unbreakable Xyz Barrier, Solemn Strike) or a single hand trap (Evenly Matched), then rebuild the Xyz board through the searchers
• Recovery: Recover from interruption with Gagagaga Girl and Onomatokage (GY recursion) and the Zubaba/Gagaga/Gogogo/Dododo searchers, then re-enter the Extra Deck boss
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck must adapt through its main-deck searchers and negations

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its searcher package: 17 searcher cards give a 0.95 chance of at least one in a five-card opening hand, so the Xyz engine is usually reachable by turn 2 (Inferred). Its Xyz bosses carry 2500 to 4000 ATK and the deck runs nine negation effects plus several traps and Quick-Plays, which makes its board hard to answer once established (Inferred from card text). The engine is spread across several sub-archetypes (only 10.9% of main-deck copies are exact ZEXAL names), so starter and payoff pieces often compete for space, and no recorded boards exist to show how often a line actually completes. The score comes from consistency, interaction density and closing power on the deck as a system; archetype popularity earned no points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange 85 / Combo 15. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-3)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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 package (17 cards) gives a high chance of reaching the Xyz engine
• Layered negation and traps protect the boss on the board
• Multiple Extra Deck bosses with 2500 to 4000 ATK
• Two GY recursion routes give recovery after interruption

Weaknesses

• Low archetype purity: most copies belong to sub-archetypes that compete for slots
• No recorded boards, so the deck's real output is unknown
• No side deck and single-game format leave no adaptation path
• Pilot must track many Xyz summon conditions and Rank matches

Critical choke points

• A single Rank-matched pair of Xyz monsters is needed for almost every boss
• Solemn Strike and Crossout Designator are one-copy Limited cards whose loss removes key interaction

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck is 40 cards and Extra Deck is 15 cards; legal under Master Duel size rules; Solemn Strike and Crossout Designator are Limited with one copy each (legal); Exact-name archetype purity is 10.9%
• Inferred: Searcher access is high (0.95 chance of at least one in five cards); Interaction density is high from negation and trap text; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample)
• Data gaps: No recorded boards, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second or matchup results Usage statistics list generic archetype staples, so the core-card comparison is weak evidence