Snake-Eye Deck #720868 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 38/100 (±12 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Level‑1 FIRE monster flood leading to powerful Link‑1/2 plays and eventual high‑ATK boss (Flamberge Dragon); Hand‑trap lockdown and selective removal to win on board control
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a hand‑trap (Infinite Impermanence / Ash Blossom) and a Level‑1 monster (Snake‑Eyes Poplar or Yummy) to start the Level‑1 engine; use searcher (Bonfire, Original Sinful Spoils) to add more Level‑1 monsters and set up a Link‑1.
• Turn 2 (going second): Utilise the six‑card hand to load several hand‑traps (Maxx C, Droll, Nibiru) and a Level‑1 monster; respond to opponent’s board and then summon a Link‑1/2 and push with Flamberge Dragon.
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws on opponent‑summons; Droll & Lock Bird stops opponent’s deck‑searches; Maxx C refills hand after a board break.
• After siding: No side deck present; the deck relies on its main‑deck flexibility and hand‑traps for post‑side adaptation.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its Level‑1 engine thanks to a very high chance of drawing at least one starter monster and several hand‑traps, giving strong consistency. Interaction depth comes from a dense suite of negations, hand‑traps and draw engines that let it survive disruption and keep pressure. However the list is cluttered with many off‑archetype cards, has no side deck, and its combo floor is thin, which limits average output and makes the deck harder to pilot. Because the deck is illegal (over‑copying Snake‑Eyes Poplar), the final score is capped low and reflects a theoretical structural assessment only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Illegal copy limit (-12); No side deck (-5); Low archetype purity (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) – capped low due to Illegal status

Probability & combo summary

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

Strengths

• Very high consistency of engine starter
• Dense hand‑trap and negation suite
• Strong draw and recovery engines (Fuwalos, Maxx C)
• Potential high‑ATK boss monster

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy of Snake‑Eyes Poplar
• Low archetype purity and many filler cards
• No side deck for post‑side adaptation
• Combo floor thin; no proven high‑impact lines

Critical choke points

• Snake‑Eyes Poplar over‑copy makes deck illegal
• Reliance on getting multiple Level‑1 monsters early

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status and copy limits from evidence.legal; Card text excerpts for each listed card.
• Inferred: Hypergeometric probabilities for starter access and brick rate.; Engine consistency derived from core group presence.; Interaction density inferred from role_hint_tags.
• Provisional: Matchup and meta fit lacking tournament_context.
• 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