Arcana Force Deck #754658 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 38/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck finishers (Arcana Force XXI - The World 3100 ATK, Arcana Force XIX - The Sun 2900 ATK, Geo Kraken 2800, Saryuja 2800, Zealantis 2500, Eldlich 2500) reached through searcher-driven fusion, link and xyz lines; Coin-toss Arcana Force plays (Arcana Reading, Time Wizard, Light Barrier) that can swing a turn when the coin lands well
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (84% chance of at least one searcher-text card in 5 cards) and convert into an Extra Deck summon; the Arcana core is live in only about 36% of hands, so many T1 plans are generic
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand converts through the same searchers, but with no hand traps or floodgates there is little answer to an established opposing board
• Recovery: Searchers and Special Summon effects (Cyber Petit Angel, Kaitoptera, Bone Archfiend, Phantom Knights) rebuild the hand, but they lack a common follow-up route
• After siding: None: the deck runs no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side adaptation

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a searcher in most hands (about 84% for at least one of its 18 searcher-text cards in 5 cards), so the engine is accessible, but the core Arcana Force package is live in only about 36% of opening hands. Conversion depends on the Extra Deck: the spread of 5 Fusion, 7 Link and 3 Xyz monsters gives high-bodied finishers, which is where most of the score comes from. Interaction is thin: 14 removal-text cards and 2 negation-text cards, with zero hand traps and zero floodgates, so it does not hold a going-second board well, and the deck has no Side Deck. No recorded boards, tournament results or win rates exist, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference and the score sits at Low confidence. Scoring was done on the system as a whole; popularity and the guide did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 43, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 33, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: No interaction package (-2); Engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional), then modifiers: 0.80*43.34 + 0.20*40 = 42.67, minus 5 = 37.67, rounded to 38

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.36 · 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

• 84% chance of at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card opening hand
• Full Extra Deck (15/15) with Fusion, Link and Xyz coverage and high-ATK finishers
• 14 removal-text cards give some board-clearing reach

Weaknesses

• No hand traps or floodgates, so going-second interaction is weak
• No Side Deck; no post-side adaptation
• Arcana core live in only about 36% of opening hands
• Four percent exact-name archetype purity; 72 off-archetype copies

Critical choke points

• Arcana Force core (3 monsters + Light Barrier) depends on coin-toss effects being on the field
• Light Barrier is a single copy; losing it removes the main negation of the Arcana package

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 60 main, 15 extra, 0 side; within size rules; Reinforcement of the Army is Limited, 1 copy run, legal; Composition counts: 18 searcher-text cards, 14 removal-text, 2 negation-text, 0 hand traps, 0 floodgates; Extra Deck breakdown: 5 Fusion, 7 Link, 3 Xyz; Archetype purity 4% exact name; 72 off-archetype copies
• Observed: Usage stats: Arcana Force XXI - The World 100% inclusion; Light Barrier 67%; Magical Mallet 67%; all three core cards present
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher-text card in 5) about 0.84 gives an accessible engine; P(Arcana core in 5) about 0.36 means the Arcana plan is inconsistent; Scores for D1 to D14 derived from the hypergeometric draws and text-only role reads; Going-second weakness follows from zero hand traps and floodgates; Engine conflicts across the 25 sub-archetypes
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; D13 matchup fit: no tournament or meta-share link
• 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, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample deck title is null, so the deck is identified only by archetype and id