Rikka Deck #742811 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Plant-chain summons into Extra-Deck bosses (Rikka Queen Strenna 2000 ATK, Teardrop the Rikka Queen 2800, Sacred Tree Beast Hyperyton 2600, Aromalilith Magnolia 2600) and Link beats; Aroma and Ragnaraika Link/recursion lines that keep Plant monsters on board after interaction
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Rikka searcher (Rikka Petal, Rikka Glamour, Mudan) or a Plant starter (Sunseed Genius Loci, Princess Dracaena), chain Plant summons, and set Rikka Konkon or Rikka Sheet as follow-up
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird for the opponent's first search or summon, then use Forbidden Droplet or a Plant summon chain to rebuild a board
• Recovery: Rikka Petal and Rose Girl recur from the GY (Petal on the opponent's End Phase when no monsters are controlled), and Ragnaraika Bloom or Ragnaraika searches refill the hand
• After siding: None: the list carries 0 side-deck cards, so there is no defined post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Plant-chain starter: 20 archetype-core copies give about 88% odds of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and 13 searcher-text cards add about 72% (Inferred, hypergeometric). Its ceiling and median are not measured because the evidence contains no recorded boards, so conversion (D3/D4) rests on card text and stays near neutral. Interaction is the strongest system trait: 3 Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, 2 Droll & Lock Bird, 3 Forbidden Droplet and control effects give layered answers, and the Extra-Deck bosses reach 2600 to 2800 ATK. The score is held down by the empty side deck, LP-gated lines, only 18.7% exact-name archetype purity across four sub-archetypes, and no matchup data. Archetype popularity and usage statistics added no points, and no individual card scores were averaged into the result.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine compactness (-3); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(62) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(56) + ContextModifiers(-7) = 53.8, rounded to 54 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core is dense: 20 copies, about 88% odds of at least one in a 5-card opener (Inferred)
• Layered interaction: 5 hand traps, 8 negation-text and 12 removal-text cards (Verified text)
• Plant type (44 main-deck Plant monsters or spells) links the sub-engines into one summon chain (Verified composition)
• Extra Deck is full (15/15) with boss monsters up to 2800 ATK and Link access redundancy (Verified)

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so floor, median and ceiling cannot be measured (Verified gap)
• Empty side deck (0 cards): no post-side plan (Verified)
• Exact-name archetype purity is 18.7% across four sub-archetypes (Verified)
• Several lines cost LP or deal self-damage (Humid Winds 1000 LP, Blessed Winds, Sunvine Sowing 1000 damage) (Verified text)

Critical choke points

• Plant-only summon restrictions from Rikka Princess and Rikka Konkon: non-Plant plays stall while they are face-up
• LP-gated effects (Aromage Laurel, Aromaseraphy Sweet Marjoram, Aromaseraphy Jasmine) switch off when the LP lead is lost
• Limited and Semi-Limited cards at full legal copies (One for One, Droll & Lock Bird): a single list change removes them

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 60 main / 15 extra / 0 side, within Master Duel size rules; no violations; Restricted cards: Droll & Lock Bird 2 of 2, One for One 1 of 1 (BanMasterDuel); Composition counts: 36 monsters, 21 spells, 3 traps; 10 Link, 3 XYZ, 1 Fusion, 1 Synchro; 44 Plant in main; Card text quoted from description excerpts (Rikka Petal, Humid Winds, Sunvine Sowing, Teardrop, Strenna); Side deck is empty (0 cards)
• Inferred: P(at least one starter in 5 cards) about 0.88 from hypergeometric draw table; Searcher-text group P about 0.72; hand-trap P in 6 cards about 0.42; Interaction quality (D7) from card text and flag counts, not from game results; Ceiling (D3) and engine accessibility (D1) inferred from text and Plant-chain structure
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample supplied; Matchup fit (D13) and tournament reliability depend on the missing meta data; Median and floor (D4) are provisional because there are no recorded boards
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second split, matchup, brick and starter-hit rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck is empty: post-side behavior is unmeasured Deck title is null