Darklord Deck #765374 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 47 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fairy/DARK board of Darklord, Power Patron and Medius monsters converting into Extra Deck Fusion, Link and Xyz boss monsters (Varudras, Jupiter, Nerva, The First Darklord when present).; Vidolium 5000 ATK pendulum and Darklord Morningstar / Ixchel recursion-driven pressure.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Djehuty or Medius (both 3 copies, P(at least one in 5-card hand) about 0.29 each) or a Gulgolet, then use Theorealize / Terminus / Banishment searchers to find the next Darklord or Power Patron starter and build toward a Fusion or Link boss.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand for a hand trap (Ash Blossom 3, Ghost Ogre 2, Maxx C 1; P(at least one in 6 cards) about 0.58) and then rebuild through Mulcharmy draw effects and Darklord recursion.
• Recovery: Recover from the GY with Medius, Gulgolet, Darklord Contact and Mulcharmy draw effects, then rebuild the Darklord or Power Patron engine from the Deck.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated; this is a structural gap for a best-of-3 event.

Why it scores here

The list is legal (47 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; the only restricted card, Maxx C, runs 1 copy of its Limited 1) and has a real hand-trap and interaction suite: Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C, Dominus Impulse and Dominus Spark, plus Darklord Rebellion and Impasto. Its starters are only moderately reliable, since each three-copy starter is about 0.29 to open going first, though the broader Darklord and Power Patron searcher package gives a high Inferred probability of finding some route. Ceiling is supported by the Extra Deck (Varudras, Jupiter, Nerva, Eveningstar and related Links), but no recorded boards exist, so median output is unverified and was not averaged from card scores. Popularity and the Darklord usage stats confirm that the list is a real, accessible build; they were not counted as power. Structural power is held down by sub-engine conflicts (Artmage, Dominus and Mulcharmy sub-engines, with Nerva and Non-Finito needing Artmage material the Main Deck barely runs), the absence of a side deck, and no meta or win-rate data.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange weights used as-is; Toolbox noted as secondary, not blended. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*60 + 0.20*55 - 3 = 56

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.29 · 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

• Legal list with a deliberate, layered hand-trap and negation package
• Multiple independent starters (Djehuty, Medius, Gulgolet, Vidolium, Theorealize, Terminus) raise routes to a live engine
• Extra Deck supplies strong boss monsters (Varudras, Jupiter, Nerva) and several link and fusion paths

Weaknesses

• Multi-engine build (Darklord, Power Patron, Mulcharmy, Dominus, Artmage, Medius) with only a 25.8% exact-name purity
• Nerva and Non-Finito need Artmage materials that the Main Deck barely runs
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Several conditional cards (Mulcharmy, Dominus) are dead when the board or GY is empty

Critical choke points

• Djehuty or Medius being disrupted before the Darklord engine comes online
• Extra Deck boss summons requiring specific material that may not be on board

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal list: 47 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; Maxx C Limited 1 with 1 copy run; Card texts for hand traps, searchers and summon effects from card excerpts; Usage stats: Darklord core present at 11 of 20 main-deck core cards
• Inferred: Hypergeometric P(at least one starter in 5 cards) about 0.29 for 3-copy starters; Hand-trap P(at least one in 6 cards going second) about 0.58; Sub-engine conflict and Artmage material shortfall from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) exists in YGOVN no side deck registered for a best-of-3 post-side read usage_statistics presence check counts main-deck copies only: Condemned Darklord and The First Darklord run in the Extra Deck but are flagged in_this_deck false, so the core-present figure is unreliable Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied