Fire Formation Deck #736430 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 73/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Gladiator Beast swarm engine culminating in high‑ATK Fusion/Link monsters; Hand‑trap disruption to stall and protect the engine
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a searcher (Gladiator Proving Ground or Fire Formation ‑ Tenki) to fetch a Gladiator Beast monster, then chain special summons (Gistel, Test Bear, etc.) to build a board and launch a Fusion/Link.
• Turn 2 (going second): Set hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom) to negate opponent plays, then use extra‑deck summons or board‑breakers (Gladiator Beast Charge, War Chariot) to seize control.
• Recovery: Recycle monsters via Gladiator Beast Gistel, Gladiator Rejection, and Test Bear to re‑establish the swarm after removal.
• After siding: No side deck; relies on hand‑trap flexibility and engine resilience.

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably thanks to a 99.98% chance of drawing at least one Gladiator Beast starter, and its many searchers and recycle loops let it keep the engine alive. It can convert that engine into a sizable board with high‑ATK Fusion/Link monsters, while hand traps and numerous negation effects protect against disruption. However, low archetype purity and the absence of a side deck reduce flexibility and increase reliance on a few key cards, keeping the overall power in the low‑mid 70s.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 74.2, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 70. Modifiers: Low archetype purity (-4); Missing key extra‑deck bosses (-3); No side deck (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

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

• Near‑certain engine start (99.98% starter draw)
• Abundant searchers and recycle loops for resource stability
• Strong interaction suite (12 negations, 5 removals)
• Multiple extra‑deck options for flexible board development

Weaknesses

• Very low exact‑archetype purity; many filler cards
• Missing top‑tier Fusion/Link monsters that boost closing power
• No side deck limits matchup adaptability
• Complex combo lines increase error potential

Critical choke points

• Reliance on Gladiator Beast Gistel / Test Bear for recycling
• Absence of Claudius and Dragases reduces late‑game firepower

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: role_tag_counts.negation_text = 12; role_tag_counts.removal_text = 5; legality.status = Legal
• Inferred: archetype_core_group p_open_at_least_one_hand5 = 0.9998; full_brick_estimate = 0.0002; hand_trap_group p_at_least_one_hand6 = 0.6496; searcher_text_group p_at_least_one_hand5 = 0.8773; engine ceiling inferred from Gladiator Beast combo potential; engine floor inferred from disruption risk; resource loops inferred from Gistel, Rejection, Test Bear; extra deck coverage inferred from missing key bosses
• Provisional: matchup coverage lacking tournament data
• 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