Bamboo Sword Deck #756802 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 50/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss (Firewall Dragon Singularity, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Idaten, Wake Up Your Elemental HERO) reached through Normal Summon chains, Fallen of Albaz and Fusion Gate (Inferred); Elemental HERO and Phantom Knights searchers feeding recursion into a second wave (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Marauding Captain or Goblindbergh, use the Level 4-or-lower hand summon to extend into a Warrior or Link body (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): No hand traps in the list; rely on Cross Keeper or Rescue Ferret negation and Extra Deck board reset (Absolute Zero, Worldsea Dragon Zealantis) (Inferred)
• Recovery: Phantom Knights GY banish searches, Blackwing Zephyros GY revival, Phoenix Gearblade and Cursed Bamboo Sword searches (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck in the Master Duel list; post-side plan not applicable (Inferred)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Normal Summon starter: Marauding Captain, Goblindbergh and Neo Space Connector are each run three times, and the archetype-core group has roughly a 96% chance of at least one copy in a going-first opening hand (a proxy from the hypergeometric estimate). Its ceiling comes from Extra Deck bosses at 2500 to 3500 ATK reached through Fallen of Albaz, Fusion Gate and Link chains, and it recovers through Phantom Knights GY banishes and several searchers. Its weakness is coherence: only 2 of 75 non-generic copies are exact Bamboo Sword cards, 37 of 45 main-deck cards are singletons, and there are no recorded boards, so the median and floor are unmeasured. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and the score comes from consistency, recovery and closing power on the system, not from averaging the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange, meta-neutral (D13 dropped; Structural = sum/95). Structural ≈ 54.7, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 57, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Engine conflicts across many sub-archetypes (-4); Dead enabler: Temple of the Kings (-2); Extra Deck breadth (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(54.7, meta-neutral) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(52) + ContextModifiers(-4) = 50 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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

• Legal list with no copy-limit or banlist issues (all Unlimited)
• Three Normal Summon starters run three times each
• Extra Deck bosses at 2500 to 3500 ATK
• Recursion through Phantom Knights and Blackwing Zephyros
• Card flow from Magical Mallet, Jar of Avarice and Morphing Jar #2

Weaknesses

• Low coherence: 2 of 75 non-generic copies are exact Bamboo Sword cards
• 37 singletons make hands prone to dead cards
• No hand traps and no floodgates
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unmeasured
• Usage flags conflict with the card list (see data gaps)

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Fallen of Albaz gates the Dragon that Devours the Dogma line
• Single-copy Fusion Gate and Chain Material chain depend on Fusion Summon access

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0; legal under master-duel size rules; All 60 main and 15 extra cards are Unlimited with 0 violations; Copy histogram: 37 singles, 1 double, 7 triples; Exact-name archetype purity 2.7% (2 of 75 copies); Extra Deck breakdown: 8 Link, 6 Fusion, 1 Xyz
• Inferred: Starter access and hand-level consistency from hypergeometric estimates; Engine reads from card text (Albaz, Fusion Gate, GY recursion); Brick and recovery estimates from card roles; Interaction quality from card text; Pilot complexity from text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated sample); D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament data); D12 side deck (no side list)
• Data gaps: No recorded boards, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference The usage statistics in this deck flags appear to match the main deck only: Worldsea Dragon Zealantis, Aleister, Isolde, Number 60 Dugares, Wake Up Your Elemental HERO and Cyberse Clock Dragon are in the Extra list but flagged as absent, so core_present 19/25 is probably 25/25 with Extra included No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and match record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null and the Bamboo Sword label covers only 2 cards