ZEXAL Deck #752257 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 47/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck pressure from Fusion, Link and Xyz monsters (Nova Master, Absolute Zero, Zealantis, Saryuja, Gimmick Puppet of Leo) built off a searcher-driven starter chain; Number 88 Gimmick Puppet of Leo Xyz finish if the field stays clear
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Level 3 or 4 Warrior starter (Marauding Captain, Goblindbergh, Kagemucha Knight), search a second starter or Zexal/Arcana piece, then extend into a Link or Fusion monster
• Turn 2 (going second): Open a searcher or Level 4 Warrior, use Light Barrier/Arcana Reading style coin effects and Phantom Knights recursion to rebuild, then look for one Extra Deck threat; no hand traps or floodgates in the list
• Recovery: Recycle from the GY through Phantom Knights of Ancient Cloak, Blackwing - Zephyros and Bone Archfiend, and re-search with Zexal Construction, Cyber Petit Angel or Battlin' Boxer Uppercutter
• After siding: None: the list runs 0 side cards and the format allows 0-15, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a playable hand because 18 cards carry searcher text and the list runs multiple Level 3 and 4 Warrior starters, giving roughly an 84% chance of at least one searcher in an opening five (Inferred from the hypergeometric estimate). Conversion into a board depends on Extra Deck Link, Fusion and Xyz monsters, but there is no recorded board data, so the ceiling and floor are text-based reads only and are not claimed as observed. Interaction is thin: 11 removal-text cards and 2 negation-text cards, with no hand traps and no floodgates, so going-second board breaking earns little. Popularity or archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged; the score comes from the consistency, recovery and closing read of the whole system, and the missing side deck and missing matchup data hold it back.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: no side deck (-3); engine dispersion (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (no metagame sample; Meta provisional; D13 dropped and Structural renormalized over 95 weight points)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.84 · 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 (18 searcher-text cards) gives a high chance of a live starter on the opening hand
• Several independent Warrior starters and GY recursion give more than one route after disruption
• Extra Deck is fully used with strong closers from Fusion, Link and Xyz

Weaknesses

• No hand traps or floodgates, so going-second interaction is weak
• No side deck, so the list cannot adapt between games
• Low exact archetype purity means the engine is spread across many unrelated cards

Critical choke points

• Extra Deck summons depend on a small number of Link and Fusion enablers that are not all searchable
• Coin-toss effects (Light Barrier, Arcana Reading, Arcana Force XIX) are unreliable without the matching coin cards on the field

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 60 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within the 40-60 Main and 0-15 Extra limits; Reinforcement of the Army runs 1 copy against a Limited limit of 1; Exact archetype purity is 5.3% across 22 sub-archetypes; Extra Deck composition: 7 Link, 5 Fusion, 3 Xyz
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher in opening 5) = 0.84; Engine consistency from starter density and searcher text; Interaction density from removal and negation text counts
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample exists; Matchup coverage (D13) is provisional and excluded from Structural
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied