Snake-Eye Deck #751658 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 50/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Rescue-ACE pressure: Rescue-ACE Turbulence (3000 ATK), Rescue-ACE Preventer (2800), Rescue-ACE Fire Engine (2500) and Fiendsmith's Desirae (2800) backed by Link monsters such as Underworld Goddess, Salamangreat Raging Phoenix and Worldsea Dragon Zealantis.; Fiendsmith engine (Engraver x2, Fiendsmith's Tract, Fiendsmith's Lacrima and Requiem) converting LIGHT Fiends into Fusion and Link boards.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a searcher (Rescue-ACE Air Lifter, EMERGENCY!, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Ash Blossom) and build a Rescue-ACE or Fiendsmith board, holding Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence for the first opposing interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Dominus Impulse and Rescue-ACE Preventer to stop the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Rescue-ACE recursion (RESCUE!, ALERT!) and Fiendsmith summons.
• Recovery: Rebuild from the GY using Rescue-ACE Hydrant and Preventer banish costs, Original Sinful Spoils - Snake-Eye, Snake-Eyes Poplar and Fiendsmith Lacrima Crimson Tears recursion, with WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils for card advantage.
• After siding: None: the deck registers zero Side Deck cards, so there is no evidenced post-side plan (see D12).

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a searcher-driven start: the searcher text group reaches about 90% in the opening 5, and the Rescue-ACE Air Lifter copies are about 34% per hand, so a functional T1 is likely (Inferred). Its interaction suite (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Dominus Impulse, CONTAIN!, EXTINGUISH!, Preventer and Caesar negates) gives high end-board and going-second interaction density (Inferred from card text). Its closing power comes from several 2500 to 3000 ATK monsters and Link boards, and recursion through Rescue-ACE and Fiendsmith keeps it going after disruption. The score is held down by the absence of any recorded combos, tournament data or a sideboard, and by a Snake-Eye identity that is mostly a Rescue-ACE and Fiendsmith build (only 2 cards carry the exact Snake-Eye name, and the core Snake-Eye engine is largely absent). Popularity and archetype usage were not credited, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 58.3, Going First ≈ 57, Going Second ≈ 61, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 53. Modifiers: Engine conflict (-3); No side deck (-2); Dead Extra-Deck card (-1); Limited-status key cards (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated sample) = 46.6 + 10.6 - 7 = 50.2, rounded to 50

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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

• Searcher density (14 searcher-text cards) makes a functional opening hand likely.
• Interaction suite of hand traps, negates and removal covers the first board and mid-game threats.
• Two engines (Rescue-ACE and Fiendsmith) provide redundancy after one is disrupted.
• Strong ATK density, with several 2500 to 3000 ATK monsters and 3-copy Link and searcher staples.

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and ceiling are unmeasured.
• Low exact-archetype purity (3.6%) and a missing Snake-Eye core (Snake-Eye Ash, Flamberge Dragon, Linkuriboh).
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.
• Two engines compete for GY resources and summon conditions, raising pilot load.

Critical choke points

• Rescue-ACE Air Lifter and the searcher suite are the main T1 access; losing them leaves the Rescue engine unpowered.
• Single-copy Limited cards (Poplar, Bonfire, Reinforcement, WANTED) are one-of dependencies for the Snake-Eye and searcher lines.
• Fiendsmith Engraver x2 gates the Fiendsmith Fusion and Link lines.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Master Duel: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side, copy limits respected.; Snake-Eye Poplar, Bonfire, Reinforcement of the Army and WANTED are Limited at 1 copy each.; Archetype spread: Rescue-ACE 18, generic 14, Fiendsmith 8, Snake-Eye 2.; Searcher-text group reaches 0.90 in opening 5 (hypergeometric).
• Inferred: Functional T1 is likely from searcher density and hand traps.; Interaction density is high from negate and removal text.; Two engines give partial resilience, but their resource conflicts reduce it.; Going-second strength rests on hand traps and Link negates.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample exists.; Matchup and format fit are unmeasured (no tournament link).
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo 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/starter rates) in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null, so the deck is identified only by id and archetype