R.B. Deck #750630 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: R.B. Link Monsters (VALCan Booster, The Brute Blues, Shepherd's Crook) built through R.B. searchers and Stage Landing / Funk Dock, closing with boss-level ATK and extra attacks (Inferred).; Machine Link chains (Ga10 Driller/Cutter, Lambda Blade/Cannon) that recycle R.B. monsters from the GY and deal damage via Pile Bunker and Lambda effects (Inferred).
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Funk Dock or Stage Landing to search the next R.B. piece, Special Summon a Machine from hand, then Link up to a board-breaking R.B. Link; hold Ash Blossom or Forbidden Droplet for the opponent's first response (Inferred).
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Forbidden Droplet, Crossout Designator) and R.B. Next Phase / Last Stand to answer the opponent's board, then rebuild through the GY-recursion monsters (Inferred).
• Recovery: Recover from the GY through Lambda Cannon, Exceptional Schedule, Stage Landing and Funk Dock, which can return R.B. monsters and spells to the hand (Inferred).
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel is a single game with no side deck.

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from the system: R.B. searchers (Funk Dock, Stage Landing, Exceptional Schedule) bring the core into hand with about 99% odds of at least one archetype card in an opening 5, and the 15-card Extra Deck gives multiple Link routes into board-breaking R.B. Links. Interaction is dense (four hand traps, roughly 15 negation-text and 17 removal-text cards, and R.B. Next Phase / Last Stand), which lifts end-board and resilience scores. Closing power is credible but unmeasured: the strongest evidence is a guide describing a turn-2 OTK with large Link bodies, not recorded boards. The score is held back by a Sky Striker engine conflict (six Sky Striker Link monsters in the Extra Deck with no main-deck Sky Striker Ace monster), 33% exact-archetype purity, and no combo, tournament or win-rate data. Archetype popularity and usage statistics confirm the list is real and accessible but earned no points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63.6, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Sky Striker engine conflict (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*63.6 + 0.20*55 - 4 = 58.2

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.69 · 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 searcher and starter package (Funk Dock, Stage Landing, Exceptional Schedule) with about 99% archetype-core access
• Interaction density: four hand traps, several negation and removal effects, and durable Link boards
• Recursion from the GY (Lambda Cannon, Exceptional Schedule, Funk Dock) supports continuing after disruption
• Legal list with no copy-limit violations; the three Limited cards run at one copy each

Weaknesses

• Sky Striker Link monsters in the Extra Deck lack a main-deck Sky Striker Ace engine
• Low exact-archetype purity (33%) and many off-archetype tech slots reduce engine coherence
• No recorded combos, tournament results or win-rate data; the ceiling is unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Opening-hand access to R.B. searchers (Funk Dock and Stage Landing, 3 copies each) drives the turn-1 plan
• Sky Striker Link monsters that need a Sky Striker Ace monster that the main deck does not supply

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal list: 45 main, 15 extra, 0 side; no size or copy-limit violations; Three Limited cards (Crossout Designator, Maxx C, Sky Striker Mecha - Hornet Drones) each run at one copy; Card texts for searchers, hand traps and negations (from the resolved card data); Usage statistics show R.B. core cards at 100% inclusion
• Observed: Guide snippet describes a turn-2 OTK and hand-trap play (guide text only, not measured boards)
• Inferred: At least one searcher in an opening 5 ≈ 0.69; archetype core ≈ 0.99 (hypergeometric); Interaction density is high based on card-text reads; Sky Striker Link monsters are likely dead without a main-deck Sky Striker Ace monster; Going-second strength from hand-trap count and Forbidden Droplet
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample; D12 side adaptability is a neutral placeholder (single-game format); D13 matchup fit is unknown without a meta sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and OTK rates) Internal inconsistency in evidence: usage_statistics marks Sky Striker Ace - Camellia, Sky Striker Ace - Kagari and F.A. Dawn Dragster as in_this_deck=false and lists them in missing_core, yet the cards array includes them in the Extra Deck (zone extra, copies 1); the core-coverage figures are unreliable Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample