Nouvelles Deck #601396 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 42/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 46 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon Nouvelles monsters to build interaction-heavy boards; accumulate hand advantage through Ritual effects and recursion.; Fiendsmith Fusion loops via Fiendsmith's Sequence and Fiendsmith's Tract for card advantage and setup.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Ritual searcher or Fiendsmith engine starter; Ritual Summon Baelgrill/Balameuniere to negate opponent boards or search follow-ups; establish 2–3 interaction pieces.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Forbidden Droplet, Ash Blossom, and hand traps to clear opponent interaction; pivot to Ritual Summons for forced setup or Synchro lines with Herald of the Arc Light.
• Recovery: Fiendsmith's Sequence/Lacrima recursion, Poeltis draw effects, and GY banish-to-Special-Summon engines provide medium recovery; heavy reliance on live starters.
• After siding: Unknown; no side deck supplied. Structural analysis only.

Why it scores here

This Nouvelles Ritual deck is illegal in Master Duel due to running 2 copies of Maxx "C" (limit 1), which prevents a formal contextual score. The structural evaluation reflects a mid-range Ritual combo deck with inconsistent openers: Diviner/Chef de Nouvelles/Fiendsmith's Tract starters appear in ~60% of hands, but many opening lines brick into redundant Ritual engines or conflicting Normal Summons. The deck's ceiling (Baelgrill negate + Balameuniere search + Fusion follow-up) is respectable at ~65 power, but median boards drop to ~48 due to starter variance, bricked ritual tributes, and reliance on a single extended line per hand. Interaction quality is moderate—two negation layers plus Forbidden Droplet—but the lack of independent backup lines means post-disruption recovery is fragile. The deck is fun and thematic but structurally thin; core Nouvelles cards are missing (Foie Glasya, Concours de Cuisine, Voici la Carte), and the hybrid Fiendsmith/Herald/Mulcharmy engine dilutes consistency without meaningfully improving resilience. No tournament context, no combo parsing, and no dated metagame sample are available.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Ritual Combo (modified from Combo profile due to Ritual mechanic emphasis). Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 54, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegality penalty (Maxx C copy limit) (-7); Core card deficit (-2); Engine coherence dilution (-2). Final formula: Illegal deck (Maxx "C" copy limit violation). Structural = 0.80·51 (combo weights, D12 excluded & weights renormalized to 100) ≈ 51. Tournament Reliability ≈ 45 (high brick variance, single-choke resilience, no post-side data). Final capped at 0.70·Structural + 0.30·TournamentReliability = 0.70·51 + 0.30·45 ≈ 49, then penalized for illegality to 42.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.6 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.09 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Strong interaction ceiling: Baelgrill negates all opponent effects in one move; layered disruption via Forbidden Droplet, Ash Blossom, Impermanence.
• Ritual recursion engine: Fiendsmith's Sequence/Agnumday/Lacrima provide GY recovery and floating effects.
• Good going-second toolbox: Forbidden Droplet + six hand traps (Ash 3x, Impermanence 3x, Maxx C 2x, Nibiru 2x) cover most board types.
• Theme coherence when online: Ritual Summon lines produce focused boards with cost (Tribute opponent monster) built into payoff.

Weaknesses

• Inconsistent openers: Starter diversity is only ~60%; many hands resolve to single-line Ritual chains or conflicting Normal Summons.
• Bricked Ritual tributes: Angry Burger and Poissonniere rely on specific board states to function as Tribute material; dead weight in isolation.
• Thin core: Missing 5 of 20 archetype-core cards (Foie Glasya, Concours de Cuisine, Voici la Carte, Preparation of Rites, Patissciel Couverture) forces reliance on Fiendsmith/Herald splash.
• Limited resilience: No independent secondary lines post-disruption; Ash on Diviner or Maxx on Fiendsmith chokes recovery.
• Offensive pressure weak: Max ATK board 2400; no direct damage or piercing; grinds out wins via resource management, not speed.
• Illegal in Master Duel: Runs 2x Maxx "C" (limit 1 in format).

Critical choke points

• Diviner of the Herald: Primary engine starter; Ash Blossom or Called by the Grave disruption halts most lines.
• Fiendsmith's Tract / Fiendsmith's Sequence: Secondary engine; both vulnerable to Maxx "C" while comboing, forcing hand discard.
• Ritual Tribute decision: Many hands must choose between using opponent's monster vs own monsters; wrong choice bricks follow-up.
• Illegality: Deck violates Master Duel banlist (Maxx "C" over limit). Cannot compete in ranked or events.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck ID 601396 is Nouvelles archetype per YGOVN export; Legality status: Illegal (Maxx "C" 2 copies, legal limit 1); Main/Extra/Side counts: 46/15/0 (within format bounds but illegality supersedes); Card text and banlist status verified from card database; 10 of 10 archetype-core searchers/interaction present; 65% core card inclusion confirmed
• Observed: All 26 distinct main-deck cards resolved with text and type; All 15 extra-deck cards parsed (7 Link, 4 Fusion, 2 Synchro, 2 XYZ); Probabilities computed via hypergeometric model from main-deck size; Hand-trap frequency P(≥1 in hand 6) = 0.79 per group draw table
• Inferred: Consistency estimate P(≥1 engine starter in hand 5) ≈ 0.60–0.65 from multi-starter redundancy and brick risk; Full brick rate estimated ~8–10% from copy histogram and conflicting Normal Summons; Combo ceiling PowerIndex ~65–68 from Baelgrill negate + Balameuniere search + Fusion follow-up text; Median board PowerIndex ~48–50 from starter diversity variance and resource signature; Interruption resilience D5 score ~46 from limited independent backup lines and single-choke vulnerability; Going-first/going-second power split inferred from hand-trap density and interaction text; no game-level data; D13 matchup fit provisional; no tournament link or dated meta supplied; D14 pilotability ~48 from estimated 4–6 step combo chains per worked example; Ritual Summon decision tree medium complexity
• Provisional: Meta Power = null; no dated metagame sample supplied. Archetype meta-share in Master Duel unknown.; Tournament reliability: no competition record; inferred from consistency/resilience only; Post-side plan unknown; no side deck supplied; D12 excluded from weighting; Matchup performance untested; format fit speculative without meta snapshot
• Data gaps: No combo data (combo data empty): ceiling, median, and board per starter are text-inferred, not observed. Limits combo confidence. No tournament link: no per-pilot match record, no archetype meta-share, no go-first/go-second competitive split. No side deck (0 cards): post-side plan, D12 adaptability, and best-of-3 resilience untestable. No win-rate telemetry: brick rate, starter frequency, matchup coverage, game-level performance all Inferred from structure. No dated metagame sample: Meta Power remains provisional; format speed, common interaction, turn-order fit unknown. Missing core cards (5 of 20): Foie Glasya, Concours de Cuisine, Voici la Carte, Preparation of Rites, Patissciel Couverture. Impact on true core consistency unknown. Illegality blocks normal evaluation: Maxx C copy-limit violation means this deck cannot be fielded in Master Duel ranked/events; structural-only analysis applies.