X-Saber Deck #757253 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 48/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro/Xyz/Link pressure from X-Saber Gottoms and Faultroll, backed by Saber and Yummy recursion (Inferred); Zoodiac and Yummy Synchro/Link bodies that convert field presence into attacks (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Radiant Typhoon or Yummy starter with an X-Saber Tuner (Pellina, Bruno) to Synchro into an X-Saber boss, keeping Ash Blossom or Maxx C up as interaction (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence) in response to the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through X-Saber recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover X-Saber monsters from the GY with Ragigura, Garsem and Faultroll, and rebuild Synchro bodies from Extra Deck (Inferred)
• After siding: Not supported: the deck runs zero Side Deck cards, so no post-side plan can be evaluated (Provisional)

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its reliable opening is a 3-copy X-Saber or Radiant Typhoon starter: the archetype-core group has about 97% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred from hypergeometric estimates). Its interaction is broad for a Master Duel list, with five hand traps, Maxx C, Crossout Designator and Infinite Impermanence, so it can answer a board on either turn. Conversion and floor are the weak points: no recorded boards exist, and the 29 distinct main-deck cards are split across roughly five sub-archetypes (exact X-Saber purity is 12.7%), which lowers median output and pilot tolerance. Zero Side Deck cards hold back the score, since best-of-3 adaptation is not possible. Popularity and archetype usage confirm the list is real, but they did not add points. Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample exists.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox, D13 dropped and renormalised (meta-neutral). Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine conflicts (-3); weak_post_side_plan (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*56.9 + 0.20*52 - 8 = 47.9 → 48

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.03 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Three 3-copy starters give strong opening access (Inferred)
• Five hand traps plus Maxx C and Crossout Designator give broad interaction on both turns (Verified text, Inferred quality)
• Extra Deck spans Xyz, Synchro and Link with recursion routes (Verified composition)

Weaknesses

• Zero Side Deck cards: no best-of-3 adaptation (Verified)
• Low exact-archetype purity (12.7%) across five sub-archetypes (Verified)
• No recorded boards, so median and ceiling are text-only inference (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Pellina, Bruno or Swen must land early; the 0.34 single-copy hit rate in a 5-card hand makes the opening fragile (Inferred)
• Conditional Yummy summons depend on a Link-1 or Level-2 Synchro already being in play (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Master Duel: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; all Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts within limit; Card text for Maxx C, Ash Blossom, Impermanence, Crossout Designator and X-Saber Gottoms; Archetype purity 12.7% and 3/3/2 copy histogram; Extra Deck breakdown 4 Xyz, 6 Synchro, 5 Link
• Observed: Usage statistics: X-Saber core cards show 100% inclusion in the sample
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter access (≈0.97 for the core group in hand of 5); Going-second hand-trap access (≈0.58); Toolbox structural weights and renormalised Structural 57; Interaction quality rated from text, not outcomes
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Side-deck adaptability (no side cards)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Zero Side Deck cards: best-of-3 adaptability cannot be evaluated Data inconsistency: usage statistics marks M-X-Saber Invoker (4423206) and S:P Little Knight (29301450) as not in this deck, but the cards list has both in the Extra Deck; the Extra Deck count of 15 was used