Darklord Deck #756572 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 52/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 50 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a Level 8+ Fusion boss (The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Albion the Branded Dragon, Titaniklad) or a 3000-4000 ATK Darklord Fusion (Darklord Eveningstar, The First Darklord) through Fallen of Albaz / Branded Fusion material.; Synchro and Darklord Morningstar pressure off Despia and Darklord Dance Fusions, with Dramaturge of Despia and Mirrorjade as additional 3000 ATK boards.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Blazing Cartesia, Darklord Gulgolet or Darklord Ixchel plus Branded Opening or Fallen of the White Dragon to put Fallen of Albaz into the GY or field as Fusion material, then convert into a Level 8 Fusion while holding Ash Blossom or Maxx C for the opponent's first interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Ghost Belle) on the opponent's first summon or Fusion, then Fusion Summon through Branded Fusion or Darklord Dance; use Darklord Rebellion, The Sanctified Darklord or Crossout Designator to break the board.
• Recovery: Darklord Contact and Despian Tragedy recur Darklord monsters from the GY; Banishment of the Darklords and Branded Opening refill the hand; Ghost Belle and Ash Blossom protect the engine after one disruption.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan in this list.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a live starter in most hands: 9 copies of Gulgolet, Ixchel and Blazing Cartesia give roughly a 0.65 chance of at least one in the opening 5 (Inferred hypergeometric estimate), and the archetype core group reaches about 0.95 (proxy). Conversion into Level 8 Fusion bosses and 3000-4000 ATK Darklord Fusions is the main pressure source, with the Albaz and Branded material chain acting as the connective tissue. Interaction is layered through six hand traps plus Darklord and tech spells, which keeps the end board reasonably defended, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and floor are inferred from text only. The deck is split across Darklord, Branded, Despia and Albaz Dragon (exact-name purity 24.6%), which costs brick resilience and pilotability and is the main reason it does not score higher. Popularity and archetype usage confirm the list is real and accessible but added no points, and the score comes from consistency, closing power and interaction on the system, not from averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59.7, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Engine split across archetypes (-3); Single-copy Fallen of Albaz choke (-2); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample supplied)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.65 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Multiple 3000+ ATK Fusion and Synchro bosses close games efficiently
• Six hand traps plus Darklord and tech spells give layered interaction
• Several independent recovery lines through Darklord Contact, Despian Tragedy and Banishment

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptability
• Split between Darklord and Branded/Despia/Albaz lowers consistency and pilotability
• Heavy Fusion dependence on single-copy Fallen of Albaz gating

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (single copy) plus alias Fallen of the White Dragon for Level 8 Fusion material
• Branded Fusion (Limited, single copy) as the main non-Darklord Fusion access

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal list: 50 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within the master-duel size rules; All Limited and Semi-Limited copies are within legal limits; Composition: 13 Fusion and 2 Synchro in the Extra Deck, 6 hand traps, 11 tech cards
• Inferred: At least one Gulgolet/Ixchel/Cartesia in opening 5 ≈ 0.65 (hypergeometric); Level 8 Fusion ceiling and 3000+ ATK closing power; Interaction density from card text; Consistency and brick estimates from composition
• Provisional: Meta fit and matchup coverage (no dated metagame sample); Tournament reliability (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 and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample no side deck registered, so post-side behaviour cannot be evaluated