Magical Musket Deck #765097 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 43 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fiendsmith and Musket Extra Deck bosses (Rextremende, Desirae, Lacrima, Luce) reached after Spell/Trap-column recursion and Fiendsmith Tract/Sanct searches; Dominus and Musket Spell/Trap pressure that keeps the opponent from establishing a board, with the Extra Deck as a backup finisher
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Musket or Fiendsmith starter, use Sanct or Tract to search an engine monster, and hold Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom or Effect Veiler for the opponent's first board
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Maxx C, Infinite Impermanence) to stop the opponent's first summon, then build a board from Musket Spell/Trap activations
• Recovery: Recur Musket and Fiendsmith monsters from the GY via Musket Doc, Engraver and Mutiny in the Sky, then reload with the 11 searcher-text cards
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs zero Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as one Musket Spell/Trap control system with Fiendsmith and Dominus support, not as an average of its cards. Its consistency is reasonable: P(at least one copy of the 19-card archetype core in a 5-card opener) is about 0.96, and the 11 searcher-text cards give about 0.79 odds of a search in hand. Interaction is the strongest part of the list, with 11 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards and 14 removal-text cards, so the going-second hand-trap odds of about 0.85 carry the score. Extra Deck bosses such as Rextremende, Desirae and Lacrima add closing power, but there are no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference. The 22.4% exact-name archetype purity, zero Side Deck cards and mixed Fiendsmith, Dominus and Mulcharmy support lower the score. Popularity and guide coverage did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: No Side Deck (-3); Engine conflict (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*60.4 + 0.20*55 - 5 = 54.3

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.04 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered Spell/Trap and hand-trap interaction (11 hand traps, 14 negation texts, 14 removal texts)
• High going-second hand-trap coverage (about 0.85 for at least one in six cards)
• Strong Extra Deck closing options such as Rextremende, Desirae and Luce
• Good searcher density (11 cards) and GY recursion for resource recovery

Weaknesses

• Only 22.4% exact-archetype purity; Musket, Fiendsmith and Dominus are three partially overlapping engines
• No Side Deck cards at all
• No recorded board data, so the combo floor and median are unknown
• Several one-copy Extra Deck cards (Luce, Aerial Eater, Necroquip, Caesar) lack a clear enabling line

Critical choke points

• Access to a Musket monster on the field is needed for most Spell/Trap-column effects
• Heavy reliance on 3-copy hand traps that compete with starters for the opening hand

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 43, Extra 15, Side 0 are legal for master-duel size rules; Maxx C and Crossout Designator are Limited and each run 1 copy, which is legal; Exact-name archetype purity is 22.4%; Card text for hand traps, removal and searchers is present in the evidence
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency from the hypergeometric draw table; Interaction density from negation and removal text roles; Going-second hand-trap odds; Extra Deck closing power from card text and ATK values
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated meta sample); D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament or meta-share data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so brick, starter and matchup rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Inconsistent evidence: usage_statistics marks Fiendsmith's Lacrima, Rextremende, Desirae, Requiem, Sequence, Agnumday, Max, Caesar, Luce, Aerial Eater, Necroquip, Little Knight and Fancy Ball as in_this_deck=false, but the cards list places them in the extra zone. core_present_pct (44) and missing_core are therefore unreliable and were not used for scoring No side deck: post-side and matchup-adaptation claims are unsupported