D/D/D Deck #765441 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Blind-Second/OTK
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Pendulum-enabled Extra Deck boss summons (D/D/D Deus Machinex, Kali Yuga, Caesar High King, Arc Crisis) protected by hand traps and negates; Link and Xyz pressure from D/D Lance Soldier, D/D Necro Slime and the D/D/D Abyss/Sky King links
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Pendulum Summon from D/D Kepler, D/D Scale Surveyor or D/D Gryphon, then Dark Contract searches and a Pendulum-to-Extra boss while holding Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse as protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C and Ghost Ogre to answer the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through Extra Deck bosses
• Recovery: Search with D/D Count Surveyor and Dark Contract with the Gate, and recycle D/D Necro Slime from the GY into a Fusion Summon of D/D/D Flame King Genghis or Alfred
• After siding: None: the deck runs no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no recorded post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Pendulum starter: the 3-copy starters each show about 34% odds in a 5-card opening hand, and at least one of the 11 searcher-text cards is present about 82% of the time, so the engine goes live in most games (Inferred, hypergeometric). Its interaction is the strongest part of the system: 7 hand traps (Ash Blossom x3, Droll & Lock Bird x2, Maxx C, Ghost Ogre), 3 Dominus Impulse and several negate effects on the Extra Deck bosses give it layered protection, which carries the going-second score. The Extra Deck ceiling (Arc Crisis, Kali Yuga, Caesar High King, Deus Machinex) is high, but no recorded boards exist, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inference and are scored conservatively. Dark Contract self-damage and the thin side (none) pull the score down, and popularity or archetype usage did not earn points: the dimension scores were set on the deck as a system, not by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Dark Contract life cost (-2); Interaction breadth (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated meta sample)

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 Pendulum engine with three 3-copy starters and a searcher package
• Seven hand traps plus negate-capable bosses give layered protection on both turns
• Extra Deck closers reach 2800 to 4000 ATK
• Legal in Master Duel under every restricted-card limit

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Recurring 1000-damage Standby costs from Dark Contract cards
• Low-impact main slots such as three Dominus Impulse
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Going-first turn 1 depends on one of the Pendulum starters being in the opening hand (about 34% per 3-copy card)
• Negate chains depend on the Dark Contract Pendulum conditions being met

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; Crossout Designator, Maxx C and Droll & Lock Bird are within their banlist limits; Card text and stats for all 37 distinct cards; Usage statistics: 25 archetype core cards at 90% or 85% inclusion; Extra Deck composition: 3 Link, 7 Xyz, 3 Fusion, 2 Synchro
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency from hypergeometric draw estimates; Engine conversion and interaction read from card text; Going-first and going-second power from starter odds and hand-trap density; Dominus Impulse is hand-activatable by its text, which the role tags do not flag
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no dated meta sample); Tournament reliability (no 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, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics.missing_core marks 11 cards as absent that the card list shows as present (for example D/D/D Duo-Dawn King Kali Yuga and D/D/D Wave High King Caesar); the 56% core-present figure is unreliable and was not used for scoring deck title is null; the deck is identified only by archetype and id