Dragon Ruler Deck #720678 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Summon high‑ATK Dragon Ruler monsters and use their effects to control the board; Utilise Extra Deck Xyz/Link monsters for board clearing and finishers
• Turn 1 (going first): Search for a Dragon Ruler monster (e.g., Dora Dora, Triple Tactics Thrust) and special summon it early to establish a board presence
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Maxx "C" and the larger 6‑card hand to draw into multiple Dragon Rulers, then lock opponent's summons with Dimensional Barrier or apply pressure with additional special summons
• Recovery: Draw engines (Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Maxx "C") and abundant searchers refill the hand and re‑establish the engine after disruption
• After siding: No side deck; rely on hand resources and flexible main‑deck options to adapt after side swaps

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens by drawing at least one core Dragon Ruler or searcher in about 80 % of opening hands, allowing a starter to be summoned early. Its many search and draw effects (e.g., Dora Dora, Maxx "C", Mulcharmy Fuwalos) give it decent resilience and resource recovery after disruption. While it can assemble a respectable board of high‑ATK Dragon Ruler monsters, the lack of a focused combo line limits its ceiling, and the large off‑archetype component reduces consistency. Overall the system offers moderate pressure and interaction but suffers from brick risk and complexity, yielding a mid‑range structural rating of roughly 59.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 65, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Low archetype purity (-5); No side deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.2 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High probability of opening with a core starter
• Abundant search and draw effects for consistency
• Multiple removal and negation options for interaction
• Strong late‑game monsters with high ATK

Weaknesses

• Low exact‑name archetype purity leads to brick potential
• Large 60‑card main deck reduces efficiency
• No side deck limits adaptability
• Complex decision tree lowers pilotability

Critical choke points

• Reliance on core Dragon Ruler searchers; missing core cards cause dead draws
• Heavy resource costs (banish, discard) can stall the engine

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status and size checks; Card text and role hint tags from cards list; Limited and semi‑limited card restrictions
• Inferred: Engine accessibility from core group probability; Brick estimate from proxy brick probability; Combo ceiling and floor from lack of recorded boards; Resilience from multiple searchers and hand trap; Resource economy from discard/banish costs; Interaction quality from negation and removal counts; Going‑second breaking from hand size and lack of dedicated breakers; Closing power from high‑ATK Dragon Ruler monsters; Main deck efficiency from purity and size; Extra deck efficiency from breakdown and material requirements; Side deck adaptability from absence of side deck; Matchup fit provisional due to missing tournament data; Pilotability from complexity of special summons
• Provisional: Matchup format fit
• 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