Cyber Dragon Deck #633058 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 46 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion, Link and Xyz boss monsters (Cyberdark End Dragon, Cyber End Dragon, Cyber Dragon Infinity) built from Cyber Dragon Core and Cyberdark chains; Direct damage and piercing from Cyberdark equip monsters (Cyberdark Edge, Cyberdark Horn, Cyberdark Keel)
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Cyber Dragon Core to search a Cyber Spell/Trap, then use Core and Cyberdark searchers to build a Fusion, Link or Xyz boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Infinite Impermanence and Forbidden Droplet to stop the opponent's first summon or activation, then rebuild through Cyber Dragon Herz and the Cyber searchers
• Recovery: Recover Cyber Dragon monsters from the Graveyard with Cyber Dragon Nova and Cyber Dragon Herz effects, and reuse Cyberdark Realm and Cyberdark Claw searches
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no side deck in this format, so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck reliably finds a starter: 22 searcher-text cards mean a search is almost always available by the opening hand, but the three Cyber Dragon Core copies alone are only about 30% likely to appear in a going-first opening hand. Its ceiling is high, since the best recorded board reaches a 100 power index with two boss monsters and four Extra Deck summons, yet every recorded board starts from the same starter, so the median and the floor are not yet measured. Interaction is broad (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Infinite Impermanence, Forbidden Droplet, Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster), which supports resilience, but the split between the Cyberdark and Cyber Dragon sub-archetypes and 46 main-deck cards pull consistency down. The score is not built from averaging card scores or from the archetype's popularity; it reflects the system's consistency, conversion and interaction, and it is capped at 35 because the list breaks the Master Duel copy limit on two cards.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); Engine conflict (-2); Main-deck bloat (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(58) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) + ContextModifiers(-12) = 44, capped to 35 because the list is over the copy limit on two cards; Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.3 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.24 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex 100, median 100, board-per-starter 6
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Broad searcher density (22 search-text cards) makes a search almost always available
• High recorded ceiling: best board reaches 100 power with 2 bosses and 4 Extra Deck summons
• Layered interaction: hand traps, Lightning Storm and Harpie's Feather Duster
• Strong resource conversion on recorded boards, with net card advantage of 4 to 6

Weaknesses

• Breaks the Master Duel copy limit on two cards, so the list is illegal as built
• Split between Cyberdark and Cyber Dragon sub-archetypes causes engine conflicts
• 46 main-deck cards dilute the engine and raise brick risk
• All recorded boards come from one starter family, so no second line is proven

Critical choke points

• Cyber Dragon Core on the going-first opening hand: about 0.30 chance with 3 copies
• Single-starter reliance: every recorded board starts from Cyber Dragon Core

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Called by the Grave is Forbidden (1 copy run), Maxx C is Limited to 1 (2 copies run); main deck is 46 cards and Extra Deck is 15, both within Master Duel size rules; Card text for the core engine cards (Cyber Dragon Core, Cyberdark Edge, Cyber End Dragon, Cyberdark End Dragon); Extra Deck breakdown: 9 Fusion, 3 Xyz, 3 Link
• Observed: Best recorded board: power index 100, 2 bosses, 3 end monsters, 4 Extra Deck summons; Recorded boards average 6.5 cards in the Graveyard and 6 banished, with an empty hand and net card advantage of 4 to 6; Average interaction density 4.5 and negation text 3 across recorded boards
• Inferred: Starter consistency: about 0.30 chance Cyber Dragon Core is in a going-first opening hand; about 0.76 archetype core group in hand; Full-brick proxy about 0.24 and going-second hand-trap access about 0.59; Going-first and going-second power are estimates from the composition and card text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or archetype meta-share exists; Tournament reliability: no per-pilot match record exists
• Data gaps: Only 4 recorded boards exist, all from Cyber Dragon Core with no gameplay tag, so the floor, median and going-first/going-second splits are not measured No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for this deck (going-first/second, matchup, brick or OTK rates) Usage statistics disagree with the deck list for four Extra Deck cards (Cyber Dragon Nova, Chimeratech Fortress Dragon, Chimeratech Megafleet Dragon, Cyber Eternity Dragon): the usage data marks them absent while the card list shows them in the Extra Deck, so the core-coverage read is unreliable Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Master Duel has no side deck, so post-side adaptability cannot be measured