Darklord Deck #765501 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Fusion/Link/Xyz/Synchro
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion, Link, Xyz and Synchro extra-deck threats (The First Darklord, Darklord Eveningstar, Jupiter, Junora, Exceed the Pendulum) reached through Darklord Dance, Power Patron searches and GY recursion; Darklord Morningstar and Darklord Ixchel as high-ATK beaters once summoned; Nerva and Non-Finito as additional Fusion closers
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Darklord Djehuty or Gulgolet to Special Summon Darklord tokens or a Darklord from the Deck, then search with Medius or Banishment of the Darklords and build a Link or Synchro board with Condemned Darklord and Herald of Mirage Lights
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Herald of Orange Light and Maxx 'C' to stop the opponent's first Special Summon or search, then rebuild from the GY through Darklord Contact and the Darklord Gulgolet GY effect
• Recovery: Recover from the GY with Darklord Contact, Djehuty and Gulgolet GY effects, and Medius re-entry, while Mulcharmy Fuwalos refills the hand from opponent Special Summons
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be verified; the list stays fixed for the whole match

Why it scores here

This Darklord list reliably opens a live engine: the 18 archetype-core copies give a 0.96 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred, hypergeometric), while each single-copy starter (Djehuty, Gulgolet) sits near 0.24 to 0.34. Its interaction package is the strongest part of the score: 8 hand traps, Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence give a 0.76 chance of at least one hand trap in a going-second six-card hand, which keeps going-second and end-board interaction high. Conversion is credible on paper through four Fusion, one Synchro, seven Link and three Xyz extra-deck threats, but YGOVN holds no recorded boards for this list, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences and are scored conservatively. The score is held down by weak system cohesion: exact-name Darklord purity is only 27%, with Power Patron, Artmage, Herald, Charmer, Pendulum, Mulcharmy and Medius all competing for the same slots, and there is no side deck. The score is built from the deck as a system, not from averaging card scores, and it is not raised by the Darklord archetype's popularity or usage statistics.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-3); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: No reliable metagame: Final = 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*56.05 + 0.20*50 - 4 = 50.84, rounded to 51

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Core Darklord starters are triple-copied and the archetype-core group reaches 0.96 in a 5-card opening hand
• 8 hand traps plus Droll & Lock Bird give a 0.76 chance of at least one hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand
• Extra Deck covers Fusion, Link, Xyz and Synchro, so the deck has multiple boss routes

Weaknesses

• Exact-name archetype purity is 27%, so the deck runs several unrelated engines
• No side deck is registered, so post-side adaptation cannot be verified
• Only one Darklord Dance is on the list to Fusion Summon the four Fusion monsters
• Nine Pendulum and Patron cards are conditionally dead when their zone or partner is missing

Critical choke points

• Darklord Dance is the only Fusion enabler in the Main Deck, so losing it leaves four Fusion monsters unreachable
• Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Herald of Orange Light are the main early interaction; losing two to a single sweep leaves the going-second plan thin

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 40 cards and Extra deck 15 cards; legal under master-duel size rules; Limited cards: Crossout Designator (1), Herald of Orange Light (1), Maxx 'C' (1); Semi-Limited Droll & Lock Bird (2); Archetype spread: Darklord 15, Power Patron 11, Artmage 5 copies; exact-name purity 27.3%; Draw-table hypergeometric values match the evidence
• Observed: Usage statistics: Darklord Contact, Maxx 'C', Ash Blossom, Morningstar and Darklord Dance at 100% inclusion in the archetype sample
• Inferred: Starter consistency and brick rate from hypergeometric estimates and card text; Combo ceiling, floor and median from text only, since no recorded boards exist; Interaction quality and going-second hand-trap coverage
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit, pending a dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so the combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists for this deck no side deck registered, so D12 is scored from composition only malformed archetype strings on Shade the Obscure ('| supports_archetypes Power Patron') and Maxx 'C' ('"C"') in the evidence; treated as archetype-tagging noise Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample