Tearlaments Deck #757228 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Mill-fuelled Tearlaments Extra Deck pressure: Rulkallos, Kaleido-Heart, Kitkallos and Undying Legion close after the Tearlaments loop rebuilds the board from the GY; Fiendsmith Link and Fusion pressure (Lacrima, Requiem, Agnumday) and Pilgrim Reaper / Exciton Knight as disruptive or board-clearing finishers
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Tearlaments starter (Scheiren, Reinoheart, Havnis, Scream) with Brilliant Fusion or Gem-Knight Nepyrim support, mill to trigger GY effects, then Special Summon a Tearlaments boss and protect it with Ash Blossom, Impermanence or Sulliek
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C and Havnis to answer the opponent's first Main Phase, then recover a Tearlaments monster from the GY and rebuild a boss
• Recovery: Reinoheart and Scream recur from the GY, Fiendsmith's Tract and Engraver refill the hand, and Heartbeat and Cryme recover Tearlaments Traps
• After siding: No side deck is registered in this export, so no post-side plan can be assessed

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its Tearlaments engine: the 20 archetype-core copies give about 98% odds of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and the 13 searcher-text cards give about 88% (Inferred, hypergeometric). Interaction is the deck's strongest system, with 9 hand-trap-tagged cards and 8 negation-text cards (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Havnis, Cryme, Sulliek) that keep the engine alive through common disruption. Conversion is credible on paper because the Extra Deck holds several 2400 to 3000 ATK bosses (Rulkallos, Kaleido-Heart, Kitkallos, Undying Legion, Fenrir), but no recorded boards exist, so ceiling and median are text-based and not measured. Popularity was not credited: the archetype is a real, accessible list, but only 25.5 percent of the Main Deck is exact-name Tearlaments, with 41 off-archetype copies from Fiendsmith, Gem-Knight, Kashtira and Exchange of the Spirit, which costs consistency and the engine coherence score. The score was built from the system's consistency, interaction density and closing power and was not an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Off-archetype splash burden (-3); Engine conflicts (-3); Dependence on Limited Extra Deck cards (-1); Core archetype access (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*66 + 0.20*60 = 64.8, then modifiers -5 = 59.8, rounded to 60

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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

• Core archetype access is near-certain in the opening hand
• Nine hand-trap cards with negation text protect the engine against common interaction
• Extra Deck contains several high-ATK bosses (3000 ATK Rulkallos and Kaleido-Heart)
• GY recursion (Reinoheart, Scream, Lacrima) regenerates resources after disruption

Weaknesses

• Only 25.5 percent of the Main Deck is exact-name Tearlaments, so engine coherence is diluted
• Three archetype-adjacent engines compete for the same slots
• No recorded boards, so combo floor and median are unmeasured
• No side deck is registered, so post-side adaptability cannot be credited

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Limited bosses (Kitkallos, Rulkallos, Kashtira) are required for the top line
• A single hand trap blocked or used early can leave a boss unprotected
• Fiend and LIGHT material requirements for the Fiendsmith Link and Fusion routes

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Master Duel: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within 40-60 / 0-15 / 0-15 size rules; Limited cards run at legal copy counts (1 each); Semi-Limited Droll and Scheiren at 2 each; Archetype-core group of 20 copies, searcher-text group of 13 and hand-trap group of 9 in the evidence; Card text and stats for all 40 Main and 15 Extra cards, including boss ATK values
• Observed: Usage statistics show the core Tearlaments cards at 100 percent inclusion in the archetype sample
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter access of about 0.98 and searcher access of about 0.88 from hypergeometric estimates; Midrange primary strategy, with Combo and Stun as secondaries, from hand-trap density and boss ATK; Brick-risk and resilience reads from card text and off-archetype count; Closing power from boss ATK and GY recursion text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample is supplied; Matchup and format fit (D13) is neutral because there is 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 exists in YGOVN: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown no side deck registered: post-side plan cannot be evaluated Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied