Hole Deck #752247 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 38/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Sylvan/Plant recursion into 2600-2800 ATK Xyz, Synchro and Link bosses (Teardrop the Rikka Queen, Orea, Sacred Tree Beast Hyperyton, Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon); Hole trap and Therion board-breaking backed by Crystal Wing and Lars negation
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon an excavating Plant starter (Cherubsprout, Marshalleaf, Flowerknight or Guardioak), excavate Plants to the GY, then Extra Deck into a 2600+ boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Ash Blossom and Regulus or Crystal Wing to answer the opponent's first play, then rebuild through Sylvan engine effects
• Recovery: Sylvan Charity and Sylvan Hermitree draw and reset the hand; Alsei and Dryas search Spells and Traps
• After siding: None: the deck runs 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is a Sylvan/Plant excavation shell with many Normal Summon starters, so the engine usually comes online by turn 1 or 2 (P(at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.71; Inferred). Its close-out is real: several 2600-2800 ATK Xyz, Synchro and Link bosses sit in the Extra Deck, and the Hole and Therion traps add some board-breaking. The score is held down by three things: the deck is over the Extra Deck limit (17 against a 15 maximum), so it is theoretical and structural only; it has no Side Deck, so it has no post-side plan; and it has no combo logs, no tournament data and no usage stats beyond one Dark Hole row. The score is built from the seven system dimensions of the Midrange profile, not from averaging the individual card scores, and the Hole label is not treated as proof of power because only 2 of 69 Main/Extra copies carry the exact Hole archetype name.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary; D13 kept at provisional 50. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal Extra Deck size (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap (theoretical/structural-only): 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 49.6, then modifiers total -12 = 38. Meta Power provisional/null.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.27 · 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

• Many Normal Summon starters that excavate Plants, so the engine comes online early
• Strong 2600-2800 ATK Extra Deck bosses
• Searcher and recursion text (Sylvan Charity, Hermitree, Alsei, Dryas) supports card economy

Weaknesses

• Extra Deck is over the 15-card limit, so the list is illegal as built
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Archetype label 'Hole' does not match the build: most cards are Sylvan or generic
• No combo or tournament data to confirm the engine works in play

Critical choke points

• Plant monsters in the GY are the fuel for the whole engine; a Plant-light hand stalls the line
• Extra Deck overflow: two cards must leave before the list is legal
• Going second, the 2-card bootstrap leans on hand traps and a single Ash Blossom

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck is 52 cards, within the 40-60 range; Extra Deck is 17 cards, over the 15 maximum; All distinct cards are Unlimited with 0 restricted cards; Side Deck is 0 cards; Dark Hole is in 71% of the single archetype usage-stat row and is absent from this deck
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability (about 0.27 per 3-copy card); Searcher-text group reaches about 0.71 in a 5-card opening hand; Sylvan recursion gives a 2600-2800 ATK closing read (text-only); Interaction density from card text (3 hand traps, 2 Trap Holes, 5 negation texts)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• Data gaps: Deck is illegal: Extra Deck is 17 cards against a 15-card maximum, so only a structural score is possible No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent Only one archetype usage-stat row exists, so the core and the Dark Hole signal are weak No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so consistency and matchup claims are Inferred Deck title is null and the archetype label 'Hole' does not match most cards