D/D/D Deck #765013 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Pendulum-enabled Extra Deck chains (D/D/D Deus Machinex, Kali Yuga, Caesar) that stack Special Summons and end on a 3000+ ATK boss; Dark Contract damage pressure and Gate-based recursion over a long game
• Turn 1 (going first): T1 Pendulum-set and search a D/D through Dark Contract with the Gate or Kepler/Surveyor, then build Pendulum Zones toward an Extra Deck boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C", Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler and Dominus Impulse to disrupt the opponent's summon or draw, then rebuild through searchers and Pendulum summons
• Recovery: Recur D/D monsters from the GY via D/D Necro Slime, D/D/D Flame King Genghis and the Dark Contract effects
• After siding: No side zone is used in this evidence (side_count 0); no post-side plan can be scored from data

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional engine: roughly 34% of hands contain any given 3-copy Pendulum starter and about 99% of hands contain at least one D/D monster, with the Dark Contract searchers (10 searcher-text cards, about 78% to hit one in a 5-card hand) keeping the engine fed. It converts that into Extra Deck pressure, with 15 Extra Deck slots covering Link, Xyz, Fusion and Synchro bosses up to 4000 ATK. It survives disruption through a dense hand-trap suite (Ash, Droll, Maxx C, Ghost Ogre, Veiler, Impulse) and recursion through Necro Slime and Genghis. Interaction and going-second strength are credited, but the score is not driven by D/D/D's popularity or by an average of card scores; it reflects the system's consistency, interaction and closing power. Without recorded boards, the combo ceiling and median are text-based inferences and the score carries a wider band.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

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 hand-trap and negation suite (Ash, Droll, Maxx C, Ghost Ogre, Veiler, Impulse)
• Strong Extra Deck closers (Deus Machinex 3000, Kali Yuga 3500, Arc Crisis 4000)
• Compact D/D engine with four Dark Contract searchers/recursion options

Weaknesses

• Pendulum starters are only about 34% per hand, so the T1 engine is not reliable
• Standby 1000-damage Dark Contract costs and several dead hand traps
• No side deck evidence and no matchup or meta context

Critical choke points

• Pendulum Zone setup (two D/D pendulums needed) before Extra Deck summons
• Dark Contract Gate or Kepler as the searcher for the first extension

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel with 40 main and 15 extra; no copy-limit violations; Banlist statuses: Maxx C Limited, Designator Limited, Droll Semi-Limited; Extra Deck composition: 4 Gilgamesh/Machinex copies plus 11 singles; Usage stats report core inclusion across the archetype (25 core cards)
• Inferred: Starter hit probabilities (hypergeometric); Hand-trap and interaction density; Closing power from printed ATK; Recursion and resource regeneration
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated meta sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament context); Side adaptability (no side zone)
• 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 starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck flags contradict the cards list: D/D/D Duo-Dawn King Kali Yuga, Wave High King Caesar, Marksman King Tell, Wise King Solomon, Cursed King Siegfried, First King Clovis, Arc Crisis, Alfred, Flame King Genghis and Sky King Zeus are present in cards but reported as not in deck, so core_present_pct and missing_core are unreliable Side zone is empty (side_count 0) so no post-side performance data exists