Bamboo Sword Deck #762708 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 47/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Fusion/Link/Xyz
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck closers from multiple sub-archetypes (Firewall Dragon Singularity, Idaten, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Saryuja, Selene) reached through Normal Summon chains of level-4-or-lower bodies and Fusion/Link material; Elemental HERO and Battlin' Boxer fusion/XYZ lines, plus recursion from the Graveyard
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Marauding Captain or Goblindbergh or Neo Space Connector, then chain a level-4-or-lower monster from hand, then build a Link or Fusion line from the resulting bodies
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with a 9-copy level-4 summoner package (about 64 percent to have one; Inferred). Use the Graveyard recursion effects and hope the Extra Deck closer arrives; the deck has no hand trap or sideboard to contest a set-up board
• Recovery: Graveyard revival through Neo Space Connector, Blackwing - Zephyros the Elite, Cross Keeper, Battlin' Boxer Uppercutter and Cursed Bamboo Sword recursion, plus Searcher text (10 copies)
• After siding: None. The deck runs an empty Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan (best-of-3 adaptation is unavailable)

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected system, not as an average of its cards. Its reliable opening is the nine copies of three level-4-or-lower summoners (Marauding Captain, Goblindbergh, Neo Space Connector), giving about 57 percent to have one in a five-card opening and about 64 percent going second (Inferred from the hypergeometric estimate). Conversion depends on Fusion, Link and XYZ lines whose requirements are spread across roughly 25 sub-archetypes, so the ceiling is real but the median output is not recorded (no boards in the evidence). Recursion from the Graveyard and a high-impact Extra Deck give it some resilience and closing power, but the deck has no hand traps, no sideboard and several situational or self-hindering cards, which pull floor and going-second scores down. Archetype popularity and the Bamboo Sword label earned no points: only 4 percent of the list is the exact archetype, and no tournament or win-rate data exists to lift Meta Power.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 46. Modifiers: engine conflicts across sub-archetypes (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*50 + 0.20*46 = 49.2, then -2 engine-conflict modifier = 47

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.57 · 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

• Nine copies of three level-4-or-lower summoners provide a Normal Summon chain for the opening
• Graveyard recursion from several cards (Blackwing - Zephyros, Neo Space Connector, Cross Keeper, Battlin' Boxer Uppercutter) gives a second wind
• Extra Deck closers with high ATK (Firewall Dragon Singularity 3500, Idaten 3000, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma 3000) reward a single line landing
• Searcher text density (10 copies) supports consistency

Weaknesses

• Only 4 percent of the Main Deck is the exact Bamboo Sword archetype; the deck is a grab bag, so the engine is not coherent
• No hand traps and no floodgates; interaction is mostly sorcery-speed removal
• Empty Side Deck removes the best-of-3 adaptation option
• Several situational or self-hindering cards (Scrap Shark, Transaction Rollback, Legend of Heart, Legendary Knight Critias)

Critical choke points

• Critias line depends on Legend of Heart and Legendary Dragon-type support; the deck runs only The Fang of Critias toward it (Inferred from card text)
• Fusion lines require specific partners (Absolute Zero needs HERO plus WATER; Dragon that Devours the Dogma needs Fallen of Albaz plus two monsters)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 60 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side under master-duel size rules; Mudora the Sword Oracle is Limited at 1 copy and runs 1 copy; Archetype purity 4 percent; 72 off-archetype copies; Role tags: 0 hand traps, 0 floodgates, 15 removal-text, 2 negation-text, 10 searcher-text
• Inferred: P(at least one level-4 summoner in opening) ≈ 0.57 first, 0.64 second; Brick rate is moderate: about 9 situational non-monsters; Ceiling and median output are text-based only, since there are no recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; the archetype has no dated meta sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: the combo ceiling, median and floor are text-only inference, so D3 and D4 are low-certainty No tournament link: archetype meta share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Usage statistics conflict with the deck list: Aleister, Isolde, Worldsea Dragon Zealantis, Number 60: Dugares, Wake Up Your Elemental HERO and Cyberse Clock Dragon are all in the Extra Deck list but are reported in_this_deck=false and listed as missing_core. The core-coverage figure (16/25) is therefore unreliable and was not used for scoring Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied