Power Patron Deck #765387 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Power Patron boss monsters (Vidolium at 5000 ATK on a Level 12 Power Patron, plus Jupiter, Nerva, Junora, Varudras) reached through Medius and Prohibited Power Patron Portal searches (Inferred); Pendulum and Link pressure from Junoldo, Shade, Exceed the Pendulum and Purification Power Patron (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Medius, Prohibited Portal, Pendulum Treasure, Plundered Plane) to reach a Power Patron Extra Deck boss; Pendulum Zone scales 1 and 11 set up the extra-monster line (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C and Dominus Spark to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Medius recursion from the GY (Inferred)
• Recovery: Medius from the GY (shuffle one monster to Special Summon it, banished when it leaves), Junoldo draw-2 on Power Patron summons, Pendulum Treasure to add a Pendulum to the Extra Deck (Inferred)
• After siding: None: the deck runs zero Side Deck cards, so no post-side plan exists (Verified: side_count 0)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a searcher: P(at least one of the 20 searcher-text copies in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.98, though any single 3-copy starter such as Medius is only about 0.34 (Inferred). It converts that into Extra Deck bosses (Vidolium, Jupiter, Nerva, Junora, Varudras) and carries a dense interaction suite of 9 hand traps, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Dominus Spark and Nervedo, which is what earns the end-board and closing points. Score reflects the system, not card popularity: the Power Patron archetype's usage share and its strong individual cards did not earn points by themselves, and card scores were not averaged. The main weaknesses are the complete absence of a Side Deck (no post-side adaptability in best-of-3), a 20% exact-archetype purity that spreads the engine across Artmage, Pendulum, DoomZ and Dominus, and heavy Pendulum choreography that lowers pilotability. No recorded boards exist, so combo floor and median are inferred from card text and carry a wide band.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: zero side deck (-3); pendulum and extra-deck engine conflicts (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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

• Searcher density: 20 searcher-text copies give about 98% odds of a searcher in the opening 5 (Inferred)
• Dense interaction: 9 hand traps, Droll, Maxx C, Dominus Spark, Impermanence and Nervedo (Inferred)
• Full, varied Extra Deck: 15 distinct singleton bosses spanning four Extra Deck types (Verified)
• High-ceiling closers: Vidolium at 5000 ATK, Jupiter at 3500 and Nerva at 3300 (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Zero Side Deck for best-of-3 (Verified)
• Low exact-archetype purity at 20%, spreading the engine across several sub-archetypes (Verified composition)
• Medius, the key engine starter, is only about 34% to appear in an opening 5 (Inferred)
• Heavy Pendulum and Extra choreography with many once-per-turn restrictions (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Medius and Prohibited Portal as the only consistent Power Patron searchers; losing them to hand traps leaves few searchers left (Inferred)
• Pendulum Zone scale pairing (1 and 11) must exist for the Pendulum line (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; Maxx C 1/1 Limited; Droll and Lock Bird 2/2 Semi-Limited; Card stats and text from the evidence cards list; Exact-archetype purity 20% (11 of 55 archetype-tagged copies)
• Observed: Usage statistics show the archetype core is present in this list (12 of 23 core cards present by name)
• Inferred: Engine consistency: P(>=1 searcher in hand 5) = 0.98; Medius P(>=1) = 0.34; Interaction density and going-second strength from card text; Closing power from Extra Deck boss stats and text
• Provisional: Meta and format fit (D13) with no dated metagame sample or tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first/second and matchup rates are Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck flags disagree with the cards list for Extra Deck cards (Junora, Nerva, Jupiter, Varudras, Mercurium, Beyond the Pendulum, Exceed the Pendulum, Charmer Quartet, S:P Little Knight and Artmage Non-Finito are listed in the cards list but flagged false); the cards list was used as the source of truth, and missing_core output is unreliable Side deck absent from the export; if a side deck exists outside the export, D12 and the modifiers would change