Ninja Deck #762003 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ninja Fusion and Link boards (Meizen the Battle Ninja can attack directly; Yaguramaru and Saizo convert board presence into pressure) (Inferred from card text); Xyz pressure through Blade Armor Ninja and Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Ninja starter (Hanzo, Tobari, Mitsu) or Notebook of Mystery, use Hanzo's search and Ninjitsu Art cards to build a Fusion/Link board, and keep Ash or Infinite Impermanence for the opponent's first answer (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash, D.D. Crow, Maxx C and Infinite Impermanence as hand traps on the opponent's turn, then rebuild through Tobari and Mitsu recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recur Ninja monsters from the GY through Tobari, Mitsu and Baku, then re-fuse or link from the Extra Deck (Inferred)
• After siding: Not defined: the list runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan (Verified)

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: its Ninja starters (Hanzo, Tobari, Mitsu, Notebook of Mystery at three copies each) give a reasonably accessible opening, and the twelve hand traps and Book of Moon give it real interaction on both turns. Its Extra Deck of Fusion, Link and Xyz monsters offers several independent endboards, so resilience is moderate rather than dependent on one choke point. Consistency is held back by the number of non-engine hand traps and by Maxx C, which is only legal at one copy. The deck is Illegal in Master Duel because it runs three forbidden cards and an over-limit Maxx C, so its structural score is shown for reference only and capped at 30. Popularity and the single guide did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Theoretical structural-only: 0.80*53 + 0.20*48 = 52.0; banlist exposure -12 gives 40; Illegal cap applied, final = 30. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• Layered hand-trap interaction on both turns
• Multiple Extra Deck routes (Fusion, Link, Xyz)
• Ninja recursion through Tobari, Mitsu and Baku

Weaknesses

• Illegal in Master Duel: three forbidden cards and an over-limit Maxx C
• No Side Deck
• Large share of non-engine hand traps and tech cards

Critical choke points

• Hanzo, Tobari and Mitsu need to resolve for the Ninja engine to start
• A single Ninjitsu Art card or Notebook is needed to bridge into the Fusion and Link summons

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Called by the Grave, Pot of Prosperity and Number 41 are Forbidden; Maxx C is over its Limited copy cap; Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 are within Master Duel size rules; Extra Deck breakdown is 6 Fusion, 5 Link and 4 Xyz
• Inferred: Ninja starters give an accessible opening (P 0.9954 for archetype core); Hand traps give layered interaction; Recursion gives resilience across turns
• Provisional: Meta power is null; no dated metagame sample; Matchup fit is unknown without a dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry exists for this deck Deck title is null Usage-statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with the deck list: Meizen the Battle Ninja, Yaguramaru the Armor Ninja and Ninja Grandmaster Saizo appear in the list but are marked in_this_deck false, so core_present_pct (44) is unreliable Side deck is empty, so no post-side evidence exists Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied