Paleozoic Deck #750335 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 47/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra-Deck boss (Paleozoic Anomalocaris 2400 ATK, Super Starslayer TY-PHON 2900 ATK, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS 3000 ATK) once the trap-control board has stabilised; Recurring Paleozoic Trap monsters from the GY (card text: Special Summoned as 1200/0 Normal monsters when a Trap is activated) to keep a board and material flowing
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Main Deck monster plus a Paleozoic Trap and hold traps for the opponent's attacks and Spells; the exact turn-1 line is not in evidence (no combos recorded)
• Turn 2 (going second): Set multiple Paleozoic Traps and use Quaking Mirror Force, Waboku, Trap Trick or Destructive Daruma to blunt the opponent's board, then convert into an Extra-Deck boss (Inferred)
• Recovery: Traps that go to the GY can return as Normal monsters when any Trap activates (card text); Traptantalizing Tune and Trap Holic provide additional recursion or card flow (card text)
• After siding: No Side Deck in this list (side count 0); no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as one trap-control system, not as an average of its cards. It reliably opens a Paleozoic Trap: 15 Paleozoic Trap copies in 60 cards give about a 78% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening (Inferred). Its strongest component is interaction, with about 29 non-Paleozoic traps and 15 Paleozoic traps covering attacks, Spells, and board positions, and the GY recursion from card text adds resilience. Its weaknesses are a low monster count (9 Main Deck monsters, so about a 43% chance of no Main Deck monster in a 5-card opening, Inferred) and dilution (only 20 of 75 copies share the exact archetype name). No combos were recorded, so the ceiling and median scores are text-based inference with low confidence. Popularity and meta-share did not earn points, since there is no tournament context and the usage-stat set appears to belong to a different archetype.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 54.8, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Trap-only brick risk (-3); No side deck (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; 0.8*54.8 + 0.2*48 = 53.4, then -6 modifiers = 47.4)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• Dense interaction suite: Quaking Mirror Force, Waboku, Destructive Daruma, Trap Trick, Fiend Griefing, Elemental Burst (card text)
• Paleozoic Trap copies are 3-of each (exact-name consistency)
• Recursion from the GY (Paleozoic Traps, Traptantalizing Tune, Trap Holic) helps recovery after disruption
• Extra-Deck boss ceiling: Anomalocaris 2400 ATK, TY-PHON 2900 ATK, AA-ZEUS 3000 ATK
• Legal list at 60/15/0 with the one Limited card run at 1 copy

Weaknesses

• Only 9 Main Deck monsters against 44 traps: high no-monster hand risk
• Exact archetype purity is 26.7%; 49 generic cards and 55 off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• Off-theme singletons (Ipiria, Vulmina, Laundry Dragonmaid, Magicolloidal Sol, Balance of Judgment) lack archetype support
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combos, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• Having a Main Deck monster in the opening hand (9 monsters total, ≈0.43 chance of none in 5 cards, Inferred)
• Access to Paleozoic Traps in hand or GY (15 copies in the Main Deck)
• Single-copy Extra-Deck bosses (TY-PHON, AA-ZEUS, Crumble Logos) are one-card dependencies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status under BanMasterDuel with 60 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; That Grass Looks Greener is Limited with 1 copy run, within limit; Paleozoic Trap and recursion text confirmed from card descriptions; 44 Main Deck traps, 9 monsters, 7 spells (composition counts)
• Inferred: P(at least 1 Paleozoic Trap in 5 cards) ≈ 0.78; About 0.43 of 5-card openings contain no Main Deck monster; Interaction quality (D7) and interruption resilience (D5) scores; Combo ceiling and median inferred from text only, since no boards exist
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13), no tournament context
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred usage_statistics core list is mostly non-Paleozoic (Tenyi, Dragon and Lizardose cards; 2 of 25 core cards present), so it is likely a wrong-archetype stat set and was not used as a core read no Side Deck, so best-of-3 post-side cannot be evaluated Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied