Ghoti Deck #677483 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Ghoti — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Control
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Recursive banish-and-Synchro control board using Ghoti tuners and generic negate bosses; Super Polymerization / S:P Little Knight board break and generic Extra Deck finishers
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Field Spell + Ghoti tuners (Paces/Shif/Zep) and hand traps, set Dominus/Impermanence, then Synchro on opponent turn to banish/disrupt
• Turn 2 (going second): Leverage hand traps (Ash/Droll/Maxx/Impermanence) plus Super Poly or S:P Little Knight to break established board, limited proactive combo
• Recovery: Banish recursion via Standby Phase effects, Gold Sarcophagus delay, Ixeep trap recovery, Leaffish draw
• After siding: No side deck included (Side Deck size 0); post-side adaptation impossible in current list

Why it scores here

This Ghoti list is evaluated as a connected Control system, not as an average of its individual card scores, and its archetype popularity did not earn any points. The core 14-card Ghoti engine opens live roughly 90% of the time (hypergeometric Inferred), giving reliable but slightly delayed turn-1 setups that depend on Standby Phase recursion. Median output is a modest Synchro board with hand traps and banish disruption, while the ceiling includes Ghoti of Deep Beyond or Baronne on opponent turn for field clears and negates. The deck is compact (40 cards, low brick proxy 0.1) but carries no side deck, weakening best-of-3 adaptability, and its going-second plan is thinner than its going-first control identity. No tournament telemetry exists, so Meta Power stays provisional and the final score reflects structural and reliability estimates only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: no Side Deck (-3); limited_key_spell (-2); engine compactness (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.1 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High opening consistency (core P≈0.90)
• Recursive banish engine provides grind and recovery
• Compact 40-card main with redundant tuners
• Strong hand-trap suite for interaction

Weaknesses

• No side deck (Side Deck size 0)
• Delayed plays waiting for Standby Phase
• Limited going-second board-breaking beyond hand traps
• Missing several archetype-core cards per usage stats

Critical choke points

• Reliance on banish recursion timing makes turn-1 fragile to immediate removal
• No side deck leaves best-of-3 matchups static

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Legal with Limited/Semi-Limited counts; Card text excerpts for all main/extra cards; Banlist statuses from Master Duel field; Usage statistics core threshold table; Side count 0 from legality export
• Inferred: Opening consistency from hypergeometric core group; Brick rate proxy from absence of core; Combo ceiling/floor from card text semantic reads; Going-first/second power blends from dimension scores
• Provisional: Matchup format fit (no tournament sample); Meta Power (no dated metagame)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied