Power Patron Deck #765417 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Pendulum and Power Patron engine (Vidolium, Medius, Shade, Junoldo) into Extra Deck boss monsters (Junora, Nerva, Jupiter, Varudras) with 5000-ATK and 3000+ ATK end-boards; Link and Xyz end-boards from the Power Patron and Pendulum Link monsters (Purification Power Patron, Exceed the Pendulum, Beyond the Pendulum)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Power Patron starter (Nervedo, Jupredo, Vidolium, Medius, Shade, Plundered Plane) and use Pendulum or Medius searches to reach a Pendulum-Extra Deck summon; protect with Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Maxx "C" on the opponent's first summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx "C", Dominus Impulse, Songs of the Dominators) to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild through Power Patron searchers in the Deck
• Recovery: Searcher text is dense (23 cards) and Medius can recur from the GY by shuffling a monster, so the deck can rebuild several Power Patron starters after a disruption
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no side deck (side_count 0), so no post-side plan exists in this format

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Power Patron starter: the archetype-core group (28 copies) gives an estimated 0.9988 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and the 3-copy starters each reach about 0.34 on their own, so access is strong but still Inferred from the hypergeometric model. Conversion is credited through the Extra Deck boss monsters and Pendulum/Link routes, but no recorded combo boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based reads only and the median is scored conservatively. Interaction is the deck's real strength: seven hand traps, Dominus Impulse, Songs of the Dominators and Artmage Impasto give a going-second answer density (about 0.71 chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand), which earns the board-breaking and endboard points. Popularity did not earn points: the usage stats show Power Patron as a common archetype, and the score comes from consistency, median-level output and interaction assessed on the deck as a system, not from averaging the individual card scores. Pilot complexity and missing Master Duel side-deck data pull the reliability and pilotability scores down.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary; Midrange profile not blended in, since the Combo weights already reflect the deck's engine-plus-interaction profile. Structural ≈ 62.6, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: No recorded combo boards (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*62.6 + 0.20*55 - 1 ≈ 60

Probability & combo summary

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

Strengths

• Dense archetype core (28 copies) makes the starter very likely to appear in opening hands
• Seven hand traps plus several negation and removal effects give strong layered interaction
• Extra Deck bosses reach 3000 to 5000 ATK and provide several end-board routes
• Searchers and GY recursion (Medius) help the deck rebuild after disruption

Weaknesses

• No recorded combo boards, so the floor and median are unverified
• Low exact-name archetype purity (23.6%) with several off-theme staples dilutes engine coherence
• Pendulum and Link sequencing is complex and error-prone for the pilot
• No side deck in Master Duel, so there is no post-side adjustment

Critical choke points

• The Power Patron starter in hand is the core engine; if it is stopped by a hand trap, the line depends on the remaining starters
• Several Extra Deck bosses need specific Pendulum or Power Patron materials, so an early disruption can leave a dead Extra Deck

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Master Duel: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, Maxx "C" at its Limited limit of 1; Card text for the Extra Deck bosses (Vidolium 5000 ATK, Jupiter 3500 ATK, Nerva 3300 ATK, Junora 3100 ATK, Varudras 3000 ATK); Usage statistic: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring included in 100% of decks
• Inferred: At least one Power Patron core card in the opening hand ≈ 0.9988; Hand-trap availability ≈ 0.71 in a going-second 6-card hand; Interaction density and layering from negation and removal text; Brick and conflicting-summon risk from conditional Pendulum and Extra Deck text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample supplied); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link or meta-share); Post-side plan (Master Duel has no side deck)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second and matchup rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Usage-statistics mismatch: Junora (5914858), Nerva (53589300), Jupiter (68231287), Mercurium (101303084), Artmage Non-Finito (74631897) and Varudras (70636044) appear in the Extra Deck card list but are flagged in_this_deck=false in usage_statistics, so core_present_pct is probably understated. This score does not rely on it.