Ghoti Deck #764827 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 63/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 50 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro Summon Fish boss monsters (Psiics, Snopios, Askaan, Arionpos, Coelacanth, Ghoti of the Deep Beyond) after banishing Fish monsters to build a board that outpaces the opponent; Banish-and-revive loops (Paces, Shif, Zep, Ixeep) that repeatedly re-deploy Fish starters and tuners
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Normal Summon or Special Summon a Level 2 Fish Tuner (Hop Ear Squadron, Shif, Zep, Paces), search or summon a second Fish, then Synchro into a Fish boss; keep Beautunaful Princess and Abyss Shark as follow-up extenders
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-trap first (Ghost Sister and Spooky Dogwood, Maxx C, Keaf) to answer the opponent's summon, then rebuild the Fish board through banished-revive effects and Synchro into a boss on the following turn
• Recovery: Banished Level 2 Fish tuners return at the next Standby Phase and Synchro again; Psiics and Snopios banish their own Fish from hand, GY or field to rebuild
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan in the export; the deck cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The Ghoti deck reliably opens a functional plan: the 34-copy archetype core has an estimated 99.8% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and 19 searcher-text cards lift the chance of a searcher to about 92%. Its engine survives disruption well because several Level 2 Fish tuners and banish-cost starters can each be re-summoned from Banished or GY, giving more than one independent route to a Synchro. Conversion depends on the Extra Deck bosses (Psiics, Snopios, Askaan, Arionpos, Coelacanth) and is scored from card text only, since no recorded boards exist. Interaction is thinner than the removal text count suggests: only 3 negation-text cards and 4 hand traps, with no side deck to adjust post-game. Popularity and the archetype guides did not add points; the score comes from consistency, redundancy and boss closing power on the system, not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange 100% (Toolbox secondary noted; not blended). Structural ≈ 63.9, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: banlist exposure (0); single-choke-point risk (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 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

• Very high archetype-core density (34 copies) makes the starter reliably live on turn 1
• Multiple Level 2 Fish tuners with banish-revive effects give repeatable, independent Synchro routes
• Strong Extra Deck boss suite (2400 to 3000 ATK) with varied Synchro and Link options
• Legal list with copy limits respected (Limited cards at 1 copy each)

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation (D12 low)
• Only 3 negation-text cards and 4 hand traps: thin answers to opponent boards
• Low exact-name archetype purity (36.9%) means the engine depends on generic Fish and sub-archetype cards
• Combo output is unmeasured, so ceiling and median are text-based only

Critical choke points

• Dependence on a Level 2 Fish tuner to start the Synchro chain; losing the tuner to hand trap or GY pressure slows turn 2
• Banished-revive timing (next Standby Phase) makes the board recovery one turn slower than the opponent's

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status, 50 Main / 15 Extra, Limited copy limits met; Card stats and text excerpts for all listed cards; Copy histogram and Extra-Deck breakdown; Usage stat showing Beautunaful Princess and Hop Ear Squadron at 100% inclusion
• Inferred: Starter access probabilities from hypergeometric estimates; Brick risk and interaction density read from card text; Boss closing power and turn-order plans from text; Recovery and revive routes
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• 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 for going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rate side deck is empty: post-side plan cannot be evaluated usage_statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with the cards list for several Extra Deck cards (Ghoti of the Deep Beyond, Askaan, Adamancipator Risen - Dragite, Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying, Icejade Gymir Aegirine, Toxic Boxfish, Super Starslayer TY-PHON, S:P Little Knight), so missing_core is likely a Main-only matching artifact and was not used as evidence Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied