Darklord Deck #751111 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fairy Link/Fusion boards led by Darklord Eveningstar (3000), The First Darklord (4000), Darklord Morningstar (3000) and Darklord Ixchel (2500), with Condemned Darklord as the Extra Deck summoning hub (Inferred from card text and copy counts); Gem-Knight Fusion (Lady Rose Diamond, Brilliant Fusion, Gem-Knight Dispersion) and Chaos Angel / Exciton Knight as off-plan board breakers (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Darklord Djehuty or Gem-Knight Nepyrim to search or Special Summon from Deck, chain into Fairy Link/Fusion summons and use Condemned Darklord to recur Darklord monsters; hold Ash Blossom and Herald of Orange Light for the opponent's first activation (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with Ash Blossom, Herald of Orange Light or Forbidden Droplet to negate the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Darklord Dance, Darklord Contact and the GY Darklord recursion lines (Inferred)
• Recovery: Darklord Contact and Darklord Dance recover a Darklord from the GY; Banishment of the Darklords (x3) and Darklord Ixchel return Darklord Spell/Traps from the GY (Inferred)
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has 0 Side Deck cards and the format is single-game; there is no post-side plan (Provisional)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Darklord engine: P(at least one of Djehuty, Nepyrim or Gulgolet in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.69 (Inferred, hypergeometric on the Main Deck), and the archetype core group is almost always present, so the engine is accessible. It converts into pressure through several independent Link and Fusion routes and high-ATK Fairy beaters (Eveningstar 3000, First Darklord 4000, Morningstar 3000, Ixchel 2500), with Condemned Darklord as the summoning hub. Its survival comes from a dense negate and removal layer (3x Ash Blossom, Herald of Orange Light, 3x Dominus Impulse, 3x Dominus Spark, 3x Forbidden Droplet, Forbidden Crown, Sanctified Darklord), which is why interaction and offensive closing score well. The score is held down by an off-archetype load: exact archetype-name purity is 41.8% (23 of 55 copies), spread across Gem-Knight, Dominus, Forbidden, Mulcharmy, Herald and other sub-engines, and by the absence of a side deck and of any recorded boards. Popularity did not earn points, and the score is not an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60.2, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Engine conflict across sub-archetypes (-3); Off-archetype bloat (-2); Interaction density (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

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 negate and removal layer: 3x Ash Blossom, Herald of Orange Light, 3x Dominus Impulse, 3x Dominus Spark, 3x Forbidden Droplet, Forbidden Crown, Sanctified Darklord
• Several independent Darklord starters (Djehuty, Nepyrim, Gulgolet) with GY recursion via Darklord Contact, Darklord Dance and Banishment
• High-ATK Link and Fusion beaters: Eveningstar 3000, First Darklord 4000, Morningstar 3000, Ixchel 2500, Chaos Angel 3500
• Legal list with 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side and only two Limited cards, each at 1 copy

Weaknesses

• Exact archetype purity is 41.8% (23 of 55 copies); 32 copies are off-archetype across Gem-Knight, Dominus, Forbidden, Mulcharmy, Herald and others
• No Side Deck; single-game format means no post-side plan
• Several conditional cards (Dominus Spark, Dominus Impulse, Forbidden Droplet) need board or GY state, which raises brick risk
• No recorded boards, so every combo, floor and median claim is text-inferred
• Usage-stat core check is unreliable for Extra Deck cards (see data_gaps)

Critical choke points

• Starter access: P(at least one of Djehuty, Nepyrim or Gulgolet in a 5-card hand) is about 0.69 (Inferred)
• Condemned Darklord x3 is the Extra Deck summoning hub; losing it to a single removal or banish line cuts the Link routes (Inferred)
• Single-copy Limited cards Foolish Burial and Herald of Orange Light leave no redundancy (verified legal, 1 copy each)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within Master Duel 40-60 / 0-15 / 0-15 limits; Restricted cards: Foolish Burial and Herald of Orange Light, Limited, 1 copy each (legal); Copy histogram: 11 singles, 1 two-of, 9 three-ofs; Extra Deck breakdown: 8 Link, 5 Fusion, 1 Synchro, 1 XYZ; Exact archetype purity 41.8% (23 of 55 copies); Card stats for Eveningstar, Morningstar, First Darklord, Chaos Angel and Ixchel
• Inferred: Starter access at about 0.69 for a 5-card hand (hypergeometric, Djehuty/Nepyrim/Gulgolet); Interaction density and negate reads from card text (flags verified, semantics Inferred); Going-second hand P(Ash or Herald) about 0.49; Combo ceiling and resilience read from text with no recorded boards
• Provisional: Median and floor output (no combo aggregates); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link or dated meta sample); Side Deck adaptability (no side deck; single-game format)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combos_evidence total_combos is 0, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN: going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck flags are inconsistent for Extra Deck cards: The First Darklord, Darklord Eveningstar, Condemned Darklord, Rahamu, S:P Little Knight, Herald of Mirage Lights and Protector of The Agents are listed in the Extra Deck with copies (2, 2, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1), yet their usage rows say in_this_deck false and list them under missing_core; core coverage (47.6%) is therefore understated and was not used for scoring No side list in the export; side_count 0 for a format whose size rules allow up to 15 deck.title is null and resolved_by is not stated in the evidence