Altergeist Deck #599643 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 67/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Adminia, Memorygant and Hexstia onto a board of Altergeist monsters, then convert the 2800-3000 ATK Link bosses into lethal attacks.; Primebanshee and Amblowhale pressure, plus Adminia control steal to swing a stalled board.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open an Altergeist starter (Meluseek, Multifaker, Marionetter, Fuwalos or Malwisp), search or recycle through Pookuery, Silquitous or Personal Spoofing, and Link into a board-control monster while keeping Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence up.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Lock Bird or Nibiru to interrupt the opponent's first Link or Synchro line, then rebuild through Altergeist recursion into Hexstia or Memorygant.
• Recovery: Recover Altergeist monsters and traps from the Graveyard through Protocol, Haunted Rock, Silquitous and Pookuery, and re-Link from the remaining hand.
• After siding: No side deck is registered in this export; Master Duel has no sideboard step, so the post-side plan is not applicable.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an Altergeist starter in most hands, with roughly 90% odds of at least one starter in a five-card opening hand and about 74% odds of a searcher among the nine searcher-text cards. Its consistency relies on the system: eight three-copy cards plus ten hand traps give it a reliable spine that can answer the opponent's first Link or Synchro line on either turn order. Its conversion ceiling comes from Adminia's control steal and the 2800 to 3000 ATK Link bosses, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are inferred from card text rather than observed play. Popularity and the Altergeist archetype's presence did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged or summed into the deck score. The score is capped by the lack of recorded boards, the absence of usage or tournament data, and the dead-card risk of situational hand traps and Torrential Tribute.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 67, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 69, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: Engine compactness (2); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers; Structural renormalised over D1-D12 and D14 (D13 dropped, weights sum 95) = 66.6; 0.80*66.6 + 0.20*62 = 65.7; +1 modifiers = 66.7, rounded to 67

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 hand-trap suite (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Lock Bird, Nibiru) that answers both turn orders
• High-ATK Link bosses (Adminia, Memorygant, Hexstia) with control and negation effects
• Redundant starters and Altergeist recursion across the Graveyard

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference
• Ten hand traps and several situational spells raise the dead-card rate on the wrong turn
• Half the Extra Deck is flex (Linkuriboh, Relinquished Anima, Selene, Spright Elf) and dilutes coherence

Critical choke points

• The Altergeist starter density in the opening hand; without one of the 14 starter-class monsters the engine does not start
• Hexstia and Adminia Link Summons depend on having two Altergeist materials on the field

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 40 cards, Extra Deck 15 cards, no side deck; legal under Master Duel size rules; Pot of Extravagance Limited at 1 copy and Droll and Lock Bird Semi-Limited at 2 copies, both at legal maximum; Card text for all Altergeist Link Monsters, hand traps and searchers as exported
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability of about 0.90 (first) and 0.94 (second); Ceiling and median output from card text; no recorded boards available; Going-first and going-second power components and tournament reliability
• Provisional: Meta power (null) and matchup fit (D13) with no dated metagame sample; Side deck adaptability (D12) since Master Duel has no sideboard step
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no archetype usage statistics; core versus standard list comparison unavailable no tournament link; archetype meta share and pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first, going-second and matchup rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied