Kaiju Deck #623102 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Tempo, Blind-Second/OTK
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Mikanko Equip-based board pressure and Level 10+ Kaiju / Xyz beatdown, with the Ohime/Uzuhime Mikanko engine providing the damage and attack-redirect plan; Link and Xyz beatdown through Knightmare, Charmer and Phantom Knights bodies
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Mikanko starter (Ohime, Uzuhime or Ha-Re) with Hidden Armory or Preparation of Rites for an Equip Spell, then equip and extend into a Link or Xyz board
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Maxx C and Nibiru as hand traps to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Mikanko searches
• Recovery: Recover through searchers in the Deck (13 searcher-text cards) and recursion from the Graveyard (Mikanko Rivalry, The Great Mikanko Ceremony)
• After siding: Not evaluable: side deck is empty (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists in the export

Why it scores here

The deck's 40-card main is built around a Mikanko engine (Ohime, Uzuhime, Ha-Re, Hu-Li, Ni-Ni) with Equip Spells, searchers and Mikanko Rivalry, and it supplements that with Charmer, Knightmare and Phantom Knights link and Xyz bodies. The score comes from the system: the 3-copy starters give about a 34% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, 13 searcher-text cards provide some recovery, and 6 hand traps plus 10 removal-text cards give moderate interaction. Popularity did not earn points: the Kaiju archetype label covers only 2 Kaiju copies (3.6% exact-name purity), and the 'Mikanko' sub-archetype is only part of the list. No combo boards exist, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences and are kept separate. The list is illegal (Maxx C at 2 copies against a limit of 1, and Called by the Grave, which is Forbidden), so the final score is capped low and the evaluation is structural-only. Its empty side deck leaves no post-side plan, which caps adaptability and meta fit.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 47.5, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*47.5 + 0.20*38 - 8 = 37.6, then ILLEGAL CAP applied: min(37.6, 30) = 30 (theoretical/structural-only; Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Three independent engines (Mikanko, Charmer/Knightmare link, Phantom Knights/Xyz) give route redundancy
• 13 searcher-text cards and graveyard recursion support rebuild
• 6 hand traps and 10 removal-text cards provide interaction breadth

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Called by the Grave is Forbidden and Maxx C is over its Limited copy count
• Mixed sub-archetypes (exact-name purity 3.6%) reduce engine coherence
• Empty side deck: no post-side plan
• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Kaiju bodies (Thunder King, Jizukiru) are the closing payoff and are not reliably accessible
• Mikanko starter access depends on 3-copy cards with a 34% opening-hand rate

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts within Master Duel size rules; Called by the Grave is Forbidden and runs 1 copy; Maxx C runs 2 copies against a legal limit of 1; Exact-name archetype purity 3.6%
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter access from the 40-card main; Hand-trap and removal coverage from card text; Engine redundancy across three sub-archetypes
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample supplied; Format fit (D13) is provisional without tournament data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup or brick rate Side deck is empty, so post-side behaviour cannot be evaluated Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample