Exodia Deck #710342 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 28/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Alternate Win Condition / Draw Mill
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Control
• 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: Assemble all five Exodia pieces (Exodia the Forbidden One + four limbs) in hand to instantly win the duel; Summon The Unstoppable Exodia Incarnate and use its negation and LP-scaling ATK to control and grind out the opponent
• Turn 1 (going first): Place Millennium monsters in Spell/Trap zones via Shield/Sengenjin effects to set up searches and board stall; protect Exodia assembly pieces with interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash, Impermanence, Dimension Shifter) to disrupt opponent; attempt to assemble pieces in hand or pivot to Exodia Incarnate if Millennium engines stall
• Recovery: Millennium Ankh and Golem provide redundant Millennium card placement; Exxod Fires in GY can be banished to search Forbidden One pieces; limited graveyard recursion means recovery window is narrow
• After siding: No side deck provided; unable to analyze post-side transformation or tech swaps

Why it scores here

This deck attempts to combine a Millennium-engine board stall with Exodia hand-assembly as its primary win condition. While the ceiling—assembling all five pieces or resolving Millennium Ankh into The Unstoppable Exodia Incarnate—is genuine, the deck suffers from severe structural conflicts. The 40-card main deck dilutes consistency; three copies of 3-ofs (Millennium starters, hand traps, tech) create redundancy and brick risk. The median line rarely assembles pieces before turn 3–4, leaving the deck vulnerable to early disruption. Interaction is present but modest; the board rarely establishes unbreakable locks. No side deck is provided, eliminating post-side adaptation. Most critically, the deck is illegal in Master Duel format (Super Polymerization ×3 / Golem ×2), which caps its structural score and makes any final contextual rating theoretical. Popularity and archetype recognition did not contribute to the score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Alternate-Win (FTK / Custom weights based on Exodia's unique structure). Structural ≈ 35, Going First ≈ 38, Going Second ≈ 46, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 32. Modifiers: Legality violation (-7); Single choke point (Ankh) (-4); No side deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal deck: capped per legality violation. Theoretical Structural 0.80·35 + 0.20·32 = 34.4 ≈ 35; illegality modifier −7 → Final 28. Meta provisional (no dated metagame sample).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.12 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex 78, median 45, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Alternate win condition (Exodia assembly) is completely outside normal interaction; no hand trap negates an instant-win duel result.
• Millennium starters (Shield/Sengenjin/Golem) provide redundant tutors and board stall via Continuous Spell placement.
• Going-second interaction suite (Ash, Impermanence, Dimension Shifter, Maxx C, Super Polymerization) covers many disruption lines.
• Exodia Incarnate ceiling is high: triple negation + LP-scaling ATK + hand float makes it a potent mid-game boss.
• Hand-trap density (8 copies) gives a reasonable chance (≈76%) of opening at least one interruptor in a 6-card hand (going-second).

Weaknesses

• Illegal deck in Master Duel: Super Polymerization (×3, legal ×2) and Golem (×2, legal ×1) violate copy limits.
• Exodia assembly win condition is extremely narrow: requires all five pieces in hand simultaneously, which is rare before turn 3–4 without explicit mill/search engines.
• Single critical choke point: Millennium Ankh is the only reliable path to Exodia Incarnate summoning; if Ankh is negated or milled before activation, the backup plan collapses.
• Median board is fragile: one or two Continuous Spells + hand-trap protection, but no unbreakable locks or layered interaction.
• Brick rate is elevated: five Exodia pieces at 1 copy each are sunk slots; three overlapping Millennium starters (Shield/Sengenjin/Golem do the same thing) create redundancy and dead-draw risk.
• No grind game: Millennium tutors generate no card advantage; resource economy is near-zero, leaving the deck vulnerable to extended games or resource denial.
• Going-first plan is passive: the deck does not pressure the opponent; it waits for Ankh to resolve or stalls with Continuous Spells.
• No side deck provided: unable to transform post-side; best-of-3 matchup adaptation is theoretical.

Critical choke points

• Millennium Ankh activation is the only reliable path to Exodia Incarnate. If this card is milled, negated (Ash/Impermanence), or the five-piece reveal fails, the deck has no backup plan and enters a hopeless grind.
• Exodia piece assembly requires all five pieces in hand (or field) simultaneously. Without dedicated mill/search engines, this condition is rarely met before turn 3–4, leaving the deck exposed to early disruption.
• Deck is illegal in Master Duel format due to copy-limit violations on Super Polymerization (×3 / ×2 legal) and Golem (×2 / ×1 legal). This makes it unplayable in the format context provided.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status: Illegal (Super Polymerization ×3 / legal ×2, Golem ×2 / legal ×1); Card text and role-hint tags from evidence.json (Exodia instant-win condition, Ankh summon effect, Incarnate negate stacking); Composition: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Usage statistics: 73.7% archetype-core cards present (14/19)
• Observed: P(≥1 Millennium starter in 5) from hypergeometric draw table ≈ 0.80; P(≥1 hand trap in 6) from hypergeometric ≈ 0.76; Archetype guide snippet (Hướng Dẫn Chơi Exodia): Millennium Ankh summon and Exodia piece assembly are the intended win conditions
• Inferred: Median board (Inferred): one or two Continuous Spells + hand-trap protection; PowerIndex ≈ 45; Best-line ceiling (Inferred): Exodia Incarnate or piece assembly; PowerIndex ≈ 75–80; Brick rate estimate (Inferred): ≈12% (no starter, no hand trap, dead Exodia piece); Exodia piece assembly probability T1 (Inferred): ≈15% (five pieces at 1 copy each); Resilience after Ankh negation (Inferred): deck collapses; no redundant tutors for the core five pieces; Going-first power (Inferred): ≈38 (passive stall + Continuous Spell setup, no proactive pressure); Going-second power (Inferred): ≈46 (hand-trap density + Super Polymerization access; can disrupt but recovery is weak)
• Provisional: Meta Power: null (no dated metagame sample supplied; archetype tournament meta-share unavailable); Matchup coverage (Provisional): Exodia archetype is niche in Master Duel; format fit is speculative
• Data gaps: No parsed combo boards in combos_evidence; all combo metrics are text-inferred No side deck provided; post-side plans and best-of-three adaptation cannot be evaluated No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match records are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first / going-second, matchup, game-level brick/starter/OTK rates) — signals are inferred or unknown Deck is illegal in Master Duel format, making all forward-looking analysis theoretical