Tenpai Dragon Deck #756860 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tenpai Dragon Chundra and FIRE Dragon Synchro/Link beaters (Trident Dragion, Baronne de Fleur, Bucephalus II) pressing with Tenpai Dragon Paidra/Fadra recursion (Inferred from card text); Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Pot of Sloth card-advantage grind into a late Synchro board (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Sangen/Tenpai Dragon with Paidra, Dora Dora, or Sangen Kaimen, then Synchro or Link into a board while holding Ash Blossom or Droll & Lock Bird for one interruption (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Open a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C, Droll) or Forbidden Droplet to strip the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Paidra/Genroku (Inferred)
• Recovery: Tenpai Dragon Genroku and Fadra recurse FIRE Dragons from the GY; Sangen Summoning and Sangen Kaimen re-search a Tenpai monster (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; sideboarding is unavailable in Master Duel for this list (Verified)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Tenpai starter most of the time: the searcher group (7 copies) has about a 64% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opener, and the three Paidra copies plus Sangen Kaimen and Sangen Summoning give several routes to a FIRE Dragon. Its interaction suite (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Dominus Impulse, Forbidden Droplet, Heavy Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster) is dense, which is why the score leans on going-second resilience and endboard control rather than on raw conversion. Conversion and floor are scored low because no recorded boards exist, so the median is text-only inference. The Extra Deck is split across Sangen, Odd-Eyes, Fleur, Tri-Brigade, Charmer and other unrelated synchro and link monsters, and exact archetype purity is only 12.7%, which costs coherence. The score does not come from Tenpai Dragon's usage share or from averaging individual card scores; it comes from the system-level read of consistency, interaction, and a weak post-side plan with no side deck.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange 85 / Toolbox 15 (Inferred). Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: engine dilution / low archetype purity (-3); no side deck (-2); banlist exposure (-2); interaction density (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*56.6 + 0.20*55 - 5 ≈ 51

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.64 · 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

• Dense interaction suite: 8 hand traps plus Droll & Lock Bird, with Dominus Impulse, Forbidden Droplet and Heavy Storm covering the endboard (Verified card text)
• Searcher density: 7 searcher-text cards with a 64% chance of at least one in a 5-card opener (Inferred)
• Legal in Master Duel with all Limited and Semi-Limited copies within their legal limits (Verified)

Weaknesses

• Low archetype purity (12.7%) and a mixed Extra Deck spanning several unrelated archetypes reduce engine coherence (Verified composition; Inferred effect)
• No side deck, so there is no post-side plan (Verified)
• Hand-trap-heavy construction risks dead hands on going-first when the opponent plays no targets (Inferred)
• No recorded boards, so the floor and ceiling of the deck are unmeasured (Verified data gap)

Critical choke points

• Tenpai Dragon Paidra and Sangen Kaimen as the main searchers; losing both to a hand trap or Maxx C removes most early starter routes (Inferred)
• Tenpai Dragon Chundra and Synchro Summon access; if Chundra is removed or banned, the Tenpai synchro line loses its main Dragon Tuner (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal size (40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side) with all Limited and Semi-Limited copies within legal counts; Exact archetype purity 12.7% (7 of 55 copies); Searcher-text group has 7 copies; hand-trap group has 8 copies; Usage stats show the Tenpai core (Fadra, Chundra, Sangen Summoning, Sangen Kaimen) is 100% included
• Observed: Usage statistics for the archetype (25 stat rows, 13 of 23 core cards present)
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opener) ≈ 0.64 and hand-trap-in-6 ≈ 0.76; Interaction coverage and going-second resilience from card text; Midrange primary with Toolbox secondary from composition and text roles; Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Pot of Sloth as a card-advantage grind
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample is supplied; D13 matchup and format fit scored without tournament or meta data
• 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 exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick, starter or OTK rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck registered, so no post-side evidence exists