Live☆Twin Deck #750613 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon into Evil★Twin's Trouble Sunny (3300 ATK) or Fiendsmith's Rextremende / Underworld Goddess of the Closed World (3000 ATK) after a Live☆Twin starter chain; Fiendsmith Fusion and Link closers (Desirae, Lacrima, Agnumday) and Super Starslayer TY-PHON when a second engine goes live
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Live☆Twin starter (Ki-sikil / Frost / Lil-la / Sweet) or Secret Password, Normal Summon, and go to Evil★Twin Link Summons; hold Ash Blossom / Infinite Impermanence / Droll for the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's hand traps (Ash, Impermanence, Droll, Maxx C, Nibiru) to stop the opponent's board, then rebuild through Live☆Twin search and Link Summons
• Recovery: Live☆Twin Ki-sikil and Lil-la re-summon from the GY/Deck; Fiendsmith Tract / Engraver recur Fiendsmith materials; Mulcharmy draw effects refill the hand
• After siding: None: the deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck scores as a system: its Live☆Twin starters (8 copies of Ki-sikil, Frost, Lil-la and Sweet give about a 0.68 going-first chance of at least one in the opening 5) feed Evil★Twin Link Summons, and its 10 hand traps (about 0.84 chance of at least one in a going-second 6-card hand) give it a real answer to the opponent's first turn. Its closing power is strong on paper (Trouble Sunny 3300, Rextremende 3000, Underworld Goddess 3000 with a negation effect), but the Fiendsmith and Mulcharmy lines are thin and compete with the Live☆Twin engine for space, and Live☆Twin Home blocks most Extra Deck summons on its turn. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype's usage data confirms the core is partly present (10 of 25 core cards, 40%) but that only shows the list is real, not that it is strong. The score was not produced by averaging card scores; with no recorded boards and no side deck, the ceiling is inferred from card text and the floor is unverified.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo, meta-neutral: D13 dropped and weights renormalised over 97. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 63, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Engine conflict (-3); No side deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional/null; no dated metagame sample)

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

• 10 hand traps give a real answer to the opponent's first turn, especially going second (≈0.84 of 6-card hands)
• Live☆Twin starters are cheap and redundant (8 copies, ≈0.68 going first), with Secret Password and Sunny's Snitch as searchers
• Strong Extra Deck closers at 2400–3300 ATK, including Link-4 Trouble Sunny (3300) and two 3000-ATK negation/closer cards
• Legal in every restricted slot: Crossout Designator 1, Maxx C 1 and Droll & Lock Bird 2 are at or below their limits

Weaknesses

• Three overlapping sub-engines (Live☆Twin, Fiendsmith, Mulcharmy) with only 14.3% exact archetype purity
• Live☆Twin Home blocks most non-Evil★Twin Extra Deck summons on its turn, conflicting with the Fiendsmith and Knightmare links
• No side deck, so no post-side plan in a best-of-3 format
• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Opening without a Live☆Twin starter (≈0.32 going first) leaves the Evil★Twin route dead
• Secret Password (3 copies) is the main searcher for the Live☆Twin route; losing it to a single disruption slows the engine
• Evil★Twin link summons need a Ki-sikil or Lil-la on board, so an early board wipe or banish can stall the line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal size 41/15/0 within Master Duel 40–60 / 0–15 / 0–15 limits; Crossout Designator 1 (Limited), Maxx C 1 (Limited), Droll & Lock Bird 2 (Semi-Limited) all within legal copies; Exact archetype purity 14.3%; 10 of 25 core cards present (40%); Card stats and Extra Deck breakdown (11 Link, 3 Fusion, 1 Xyz)
• Inferred: Starter and hand-trap hypergeometric probabilities (0.68, 0.75, 0.84); Combo ceiling from card text (Trouble Sunny, Rextremende, Goddess); Brick and redundancy estimates from composition; Engine conflict between Live☆Twin Home and Fiendsmith / Knightmare links
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• 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 and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown 0 side cards — post-side adaptability cannot be measured Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied