Rokket Deck #677481 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Tempo
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 43 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon chain into Borrelend Dragon / Borrelshroud Dragon (3500 ATK) and Borreload Savage Dragon, with Rokket Detonator and Mitsurugi Ritual lines as alternative boards.; Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi (3200 ATK) Ritual, with a board wipe on Special Summon, and Zombie Vampire as an off-archetype Xyz.
• Turn 1 (going first): T1 Quick Launch or Rokket Tracer into Rokket Loader / Silverrokket Dragon to build a Link base, backed by Infinite Impermanence or Dominus Impulse on the opponent's first summon.
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with Ash Blossom, Maxx C or Infinite Impermanence to stop the opponent's first engine, then recover through Absorouter Dragon and Rokket Tracer recursion.
• Recovery: Absorouter Dragon from the GY and Borrel Regenerator from the GY rebuild a Rokket monster; Radiant Typhoon searchers refill the hand.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side count 0), so no post-side plan exists in the evidence; this is a Gap, not a plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal: Called by the Grave (Forbidden, 1 copy) and a third Radiant Typhoon Chant (2 legal) break the Master Duel rules, so under the rubric it receives a capped, structural-only score rather than a normal Final. Structurally, the Rokket core (6 copies of the archetype-core group, P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.55) and 16 searcher-text cards give a reasonably live T1–T2 engine, supported by 7 hand traps and 17 removal-text cards for interruption and interaction. The Extra Deck is fully used (10 Link monsters plus Xyz, Synchro and Fusion), so the closing power comes from several 3000+ ATK Link and Ritual boards rather than from the average of the individual card scores. The main weaknesses are a low archetype purity (22.4% exact-name; 45 off-archetype copies across Mitsurugi, Radiant Typhoon, Borrel, Dominus and Mulcharmy sub-lines), a 45% chance of no core card in an opening hand, and a complete absence of a side deck or any post-side plan. Popularity and archetype usage were not counted as power, no combo boards or tournament data exist to measure the floor and median, and Meta Power remains provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange weights used for the whole structural score; Toolbox secondary noted but not blended, because the evidence is too thin to justify a split. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); illegality cap (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*57 + 0.20*50 - 12 = 43.6; then capped to 35 because the deck is Illegal (rubric Step 2: cap low, theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.32 · 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 interaction package: 7 hand traps plus negate and removal text across Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C, Dominus Impulse and Mystical Space Typhoon
• Searcher density (16 cards) gives a good chance of filtering a hand
• Two independent recursion routes (Absorouter Dragon, Borrel Regenerator) support grinding
• Extra Deck fully used with several 3000+ ATK closers

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Called by the Grave is Forbidden and Radiant Typhoon Chant is over its limit
• No side deck (side 0), so no post-side plan
• Low archetype purity (22.4%) across Mitsurugi, Radiant Typhoon, Borrel, Dominus and Mulcharmy sub-lines
• No recorded boards, so consistency and combo output are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Quick Launch (3 copies) and Rokket Tracer are the only cheap Rokket starters; P(at least one in hand5) ≈ 0.32
• Ritual lines depend on Mitsurugi Ritual or Mitsurugi Mirror plus Reptile tributes, a conditional chain
• Borrel Link closers depend on a Link Monster already on the field

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Called by the Grave (Forbidden, 1 copy) and Radiant Typhoon Chant (3 copies, limit 2) are illegal; Main 43 / Extra 15 / Side 0 are within Master Duel size rules; Extra Deck composition: 10 Link, 3 Xyz, 1 Synchro, 1 Fusion; Archetype purity 22.4% exact-name
• Inferred: Starter and core-group hypergeometric probabilities; Consistency and brick estimates; Interaction density from card text (hand traps, negates, removal); Going-first and going-second power estimates from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup and format fit (D13 = 50, neutral)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) exists in YGOVN Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample no side deck supplied, so D12 and any post-side plan are unmeasured no guides attached (total guides 0)