Darklord Deck #750638 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion or Link Summon a Darklord boss (Darklord Morningstar, Darklord Eveningstar, The First Darklord, Darklord Ixchel) or a Gem-Knight or Solfachord Extra Deck threat, then close with 2000+ ATK attackers; Gem-Knight Lady Rose Diamond and GranSolfachord Coolia as board-control and pressure extenders once the board is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Djehuty or Gulgolet to search or summon a Darklord, convert into Banishment or Darklord Contact recursion, and keep Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence or Droll up for the opponent's first answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold a hand-trap or negation (Ash, Impermanence, Maxx C, Droll, Herald) against the opponent's first Summon or boss, then rebuild through Gulgolet and Banishment recursion while the Extra Deck threat is still available
• Recovery: Recover from the graveyard through Gem-Knight Fusion (banish a Gem-Knight to re-add), Darklord Contact, Fallen Angel in Darkness and Nepyrim's search, then re-engage the Extra Deck
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no side deck in this export (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan is scored

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Darklord engine: the 24-card archetype core has an estimated 93% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and the 22 searcher-text cards give about 91%, so the first functional turn is usually reachable. It converts that opening into pressure through a wide Extra Deck (Fusion and Link bosses reaching 2700 to 4000 ATK) and recursion from the graveyard that lets a single engine card rebuild after an answer. Interruption resilience and interaction are the strongest parts of the system: 19 negation-text cards, 10 hand traps and several limited single-copy answers give layered responses across both going-first and going-second turns. The score is held down by a diffuse main deck (only 21 of 60 cards carry the exact Darklord name, with Gem-Knight, Solfachord, Mulcharmy and Herald splashes competing for hand space), by the absence of any recorded boards, and by the lack of a dated meta sample. Popularity and the archetype's guide coverage did not earn points, and the score was built from consistency, interaction and closing power on the system rather than from averaging the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 65.4, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Engine conflicts across four archetypes (-3); Banlist exposure (Limited at 1 copy) (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; 0.80*65.4 + 0.20*60 - 4 = 60.3 -> 60)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.07 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core engine is reachable in most opening hands (P 0.931 for the core group)
• Layered interaction with 19 negation-text cards and 10 hand traps
• Wide Extra Deck with 2300 to 4000 ATK bosses and recursion that rebuilds after an answer
• Redundant graveyard recovery through Gem-Knight Fusion, Contact and Fallen Angel

Weaknesses

• Multi-archetype main deck (only 21 of 60 are exact Darklord) creates hand conflicts
• No recorded boards, so the floor and median are text-only inference
• Two Extra Deck single points (Eveningstar, First Darklord) limit flexibility
• No side deck in Master Duel, so no adaptation

Critical choke points

• Opening hand must find a Darklord starter (Djehuty, Gulgolet or Banishment) before the Extra Deck line can start
• Triple Tactics Talent is conditional on the opponent having activated a monster effect in the Main Phase
• Eveningstar and First Darklord are single-point boss dependencies within the Extra Deck

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal: 60 main, 15 extra, 0 side; limited and semi-limited copy counts respected; Card text for the Darklord boss effects and negation cards
• Inferred: D1 consistency from hypergeometric estimates (0.931 core group, 0.908 searcher group); D7 interaction quality from negate and removal text counts; D8 going-second hand-trap estimate (0.683); Engine-conflict modifier from archetype purity
• Provisional: Meta power (null; no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup fit (no tournament link or meta share); D12 side adaptability (no side deck in Master Duel)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling (D3/D4) are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates); those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage statistics matches only the main deck: Condemned Darklord, The First Darklord, Rahamu, Herald of Mirage Lights and Protector of The Agents - Moon are reported as not in deck and inside missing core cards, although the cards list carries them in the Extra Deck; core-card presence (52) is therefore understated Pendulum scale reads 0 for Solfachord Primoa (which is a Pendulum monster in the main deck); the scale field may be unparsed for that card No side deck in Master Duel: D12 is a placeholder, not a measured value