Cyber Dragon Deck #757261 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 52/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link/Xyz/Fusion boards (Cyber End Dragon, Cyberdark End Dragon, Cyber Dragon Infinity) built off Cyber Dragon summons, with OTK pressure from Power Bond and Fusion-based 4000+ ATK bosses.; Cyber Dragon Nachster and Cyber Dragon Core recursion chains into Cyber Dragon Sieger and Cyber Dragon Nova.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Cyber Dragon starter (Nachster, Core, Herz) with Cyber Emergency or Cyber Repair Plant, then extend into a Link or Xyz Summon while holding Ash Blossom or Effect Veiler for the opponent's first interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler) to stop the opponent's first search or summon, then rebuild a Cyber Dragon board with Cyber Dragon Core or Nachster from the GY.
• Recovery: Recover through Cyber Repair Plant and Cyberdark Claw or Cyberdark Cannon, which return Cyber Dragons or Cyberdark monsters from the GY to hand, and through Ghost Belle or Cybernetic Overflow to keep the board alive.
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no side deck, so the post-side plan does not exist in this format.

Why it scores here

The deck is a Combo-profile system. Its consistency comes from the Cyber Dragon core (29 archetype-core copies give about 0.97 probability of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred), and several searchers (26 searcher-text cards, about 0.95 at least one in hand) keep it reliably live on turns 1 and 2. Its interaction is strong: 14 hand traps and 19 negation-text cards give about 0.81 chance of a hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand (Inferred), and this is the main reason the structural score holds. The ceiling is an OTK line through Power Bond and Fusion/Link/Xyz bosses, but no recorded boards exist, so the median output is Inferred and lower. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged; the score reflects the system's consistency, interaction, and conversion. Off-archetype copies (about 27% exact-name purity) and a 0-card side deck limit the score; the guides describe the deck as not meta-strong.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 54, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 56.8, TR 50, minus 3 modifier = 52.4, rounded to 52

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.23 · 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

• Archetype core is almost always present in the opening hand (about 0.97, Inferred)
• Heavy hand-trap and negation density gives strong going-second interaction (about 0.81, Inferred)
• Searchers and recursion give several independent lines (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only estimates (Inferred)
• Single hand traps can leave a hand dead (Inferred)
• Large off-archetype count (about 27% purity) weakens engine coherence (verified from composition)

Critical choke points

• The opening Cyber Dragon starter (Nachster, Core, Herz) is the bootstrap; without it the Link and Xyz plan does not start (Inferred)
• Power Bond and Fusion/Link bosses depend on Extra Deck access, so Extra Deck disruption is a single choke point (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 60 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, no violations; Crossout Designator and Maxx C are Limited with 1 copy each; Droll & Lock Bird is Semi-Limited with 2 copies; Archetype purity 26.7% from composition
• Observed: Core Cyber Dragon group is present in 29 Main Deck copies (usage stat available)
• Inferred: At least one starter in 5-card hand ≈ 0.23 per copy-group; core group ≈ 0.97; Going-second hand-trap probability ≈ 0.81; Floor, median, and ceiling estimates from text only; Interaction and recursion breadth
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; the guides say the deck is not meta-strong; D13 matchup and format fit are provisional
• 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, brick and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Master Duel has no side deck, so D12 is not measurable