Cyber Dragon Deck #765010 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 52/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Cyber Dragon searcher chains (Core, Cyber Emergency, Claw, Realm) into Cyber Dragon / Nova / Infinity board pressure, closed by Fusion or Xyz boss monsters such as Cyber End Dragon or Chimeratech Rampage Dragon; Link and Xyz pressure from Sieger, Azalea and Infinity, with Power Bond or Polymerization as a fusion route
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Cyber Dragon Core for a Cyber searcher, Cyber Emergency for a Cyber Dragon or LIGHT Machine, then Nachster or Herz to extend; hand traps held for the second turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Ash Blossom and Maxx C against the opponent's first summon or search, then Cyber Dragon Core or Special Summon Cyber Dragon when the opponent controls a monster, into Nova or Infinity
• Recovery: Cyberdark Claw and Cyberdark Realm recover Cyberdark monsters from the GY; Night Train Blue Traveler and Clockwork Night recover EARTH Machines; Cyber Dragon Herz and Nachster recur from GY
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel format with no side deck (side_count 0); no post-side plan exists in this format

Why it scores here

The deck scores as a connected Cyber Dragon system rather than an average of its cards. Its searcher density (about 20 searcher-text cards, 97.6% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand) and three Cyber Dragon Core copies give it a reasonable chance of a live starter by turn 1 to 2, which lifts the engine-access and resource scores. Ceiling is the strongest part of the read: Cyber End Dragon, Chimeratech Rampage and the Power Bond or Polymerization routes can produce large boards, but the median output is unmeasured because no recorded boards exist, so the floor score is held down. Interaction is credible (four hand traps, Maxx C, Cybernetic Overflow, Luminous Cyber Dragon and Therion Regulus negation), and it helps going second. The score is held back by engine conflict: exact-name Cyber Dragon purity is only 27.3%, with Cyberdark, Mulcharmy, Train, Infinitrack and Clockwork cards competing for the same slots, and several Extra Deck cards (Kashtira Arise-Heart, Sky Striker Ace - Azalea) have no support in the list. Popularity and guide mentions were not credited, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59.6, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 61, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: engine_conflict (-4); orphan_extra_deck_cards (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*59.6 + 0.20*52 - 6 = 52.1

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Dense searcher package (about 20 searcher-text cards) gives high chance of a live engine
• Four hand traps and Maxx C provide layered going-second interaction
• Several Extra Deck routes (Cyber End Dragon, Chimeratech Rampage, Infinity) give real closing power
• Recursion routes in the GY support recovery

Weaknesses

• Exact-name Cyber Dragon purity is low at 27.3%; multiple archetypes compete for the engine
• Five Mulcharmy copies and other off-archetype fillers reduce compactness
• Two Extra Deck cards have no support in the list (Kashtira Arise-Heart, Sky Striker Ace - Azalea)
• No recorded boards, so the median and floor are unverified

Critical choke points

• Cyber Dragon Core and Cyber Emergency as the first searcher; without them the Cyber searcher chain stalls
• Hand traps are dead when the opponent does not act on the relevant turn, so going second is not guaranteed interaction

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; Maxx C runs 1 of 1 legal copies; Exact-name archetype purity 27.3% and the archetype spread from composition; Searcher-text group P(>=1 in opener) = 0.976 and Cyber Dragon Core P = 0.338 from hypergeometric draw table; Three guides attached (topic 1478, 1254, 284)
• Observed: Usage statistics show Cyber Dragon Herz, Cyber Dragon Core and Cyber Emergency in the core list (100% inclusion)
• Inferred: Engine access and brick estimates from searcher density and copy counts; Ceiling and interaction reads from card text (not recorded boards); Going-first and going-second estimates from hand-trap and hand-size probabilities
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated meta sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Side-deck adaptability (no side deck in Master Duel format)
• Data gaps: No recorded combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or OTK rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied