Darklord Deck #756870 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 48/100 (±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: Summon Darklord Morningstar / The First Darklord / Clown Crew Biancaviso and convert the board with 2500 to 3000 ATK bodies; Clown Crew Diabolo and Clown Crew Dristy double-attack or piercing pressure after a Tribute Summon
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Darklord Gulgolet, Darklord Djehuty, Clown Crew Cappello or Clown Crew Rehearsal) and use a searcher to find a second Darklord or Clown Crew piece; hold Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird for the opponent's first search or Special Summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Maxx C and Droll & Lock Bird as hand traps against the opponent's engine, then rebuild through Darklord Contact or Clown Crew Malabarisme from the GY
• Recovery: Recover from the GY via Darklord Contact, Clown Crew Malabarisme, Clown Crew Matinee Operatics and Darklord Gulgolet's GY effect, and reset with Pot of Sloth and Clown Crew Flair
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so the post-side plan is unavailable; the list cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck opens a playable plan through roughly 0.93 probability of at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand, and its 21 searcher-text cards make a second starter reachable from most hands. Conversion relies on Clown Crew and Darklord bodies that reach 2500 to 3000 ATK, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based inferences and are scored conservatively. Interaction is layered through Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Herald of the Arc Light, Crossout Designator and The Sanctified Darklord, which gives it reasonable end-board resilience while still leaving a choke on the engine's first summon. The list runs 25 Spells and splits across two archetype families with 25% exact-name purity, which costs engine coherence, and it has no Side Deck, so it cannot adapt between games. Popularity in the Darklord usage statistics confirmed the list is real and accessible, but it did not raise the score, and the score was built on the system rather than by averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.8 Midrange + 0.2 Toolbox. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Split engine families (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.07 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher and starter access (21 searcher-text cards, ~0.93 archetype-core opening-hand presence)
• Layered interaction with 8 negation-text cards and 6 hand traps
• Boss-level Extra Deck and Main Deck bodies (Morningstar 3000, Biancaviso 2500, Eveningstar 3000)
• Legal list with all Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts respected

Weaknesses

• Two archetype families split the engine, leaving only 25% exact-name purity
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combo boards, so the ceiling and median are inferred from text only
• Heavy Spell count (25) raises brick and dead-card risk

Critical choke points

• Summoning the first Darklord or Clown Crew starter, which the rest of the engine depends on
• Droll & Lock Bird and Ash Blossom are single-copy negations that cannot be replaced after a Limited or Semi-Limited ban

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0; all restricted-card copy counts within limit; Stats and text for Morningstar, Biancaviso, Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Herald of the Arc Light; Archetype purity 25.3% and spread across Clown Crew, Darklord and generic cards
• Observed: Usage statistics show the Darklord core is widely run (Darklord Contact, Maxx C, Ash Blossom, Morningstar at 100% inclusion)
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability from hypergeometric estimate (~0.93); Interaction quality from negation and hand-trap text; Ceiling and median output from text-only reading of engine lines
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample was supplied; Matchup fit (D13) rests on archetype usage only
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, and brick/starter/OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck registered — post-side plan cannot be evaluated