D/D/D Deck #765787 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Pendulum-enabled Extra Deck summons of D/D/D boss monsters (Xyz, Fusion, Link, Synchro) backed by D/D Dark Contract recursion and Pendulum Zone scales; Dark Contract with the Gate/Eternal Darkness/Zero King damage pressure and D/D Lance Soldier and Necro Slime fusion-recursion value
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Pendulum-capable D/D monster, place scales with Kepler/Copernicus/Gryphon, use Dark Contract to search a D/D, and set up a Pendulum Summon into a D/D/D Extra Deck monster while holding Ash Blossom and Droll as backup
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C", Ghost Ogre and Effect Veiler to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild the Pendulum board from the Graveyard with Necro Slime and Dark Contracts
• Recovery: Recover through Dark Contract search, D/D Orthros and Dominus Impulse protection, and Graveyard Fusion or Link recursion from Necro Slime and Gilgamesh
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adjust to matchups

Why it scores here

The deck scores as a connected Pendulum-and-Extra-Deck system, not as an average of its cards: three copies each of the core Pendulum starters (Kepler, Machinex, Gryphon, Surveyor) and three Dark Contract searches make the engine reach a live Pendulum board in most openings, while the archetype core is effectively always present in a five-card hand. Interaction is the deck's strongest layer: three Ash Blossom, two Droll & Lock Bird, one Maxx "C", Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler and three Dominus Impulse give layered answers to the opponent's first combo, which lifts the endboard and going-second read. The ceiling is high because the 15-card Extra Deck offers several independent boss routes, but the median is held back by the lack of recorded boards and by a choke on Pendulum scales and Dark Contract access. The score does not reflect the archetype's popularity or its usage share, and no post-side plan exists because the deck runs no Side Deck.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: No side deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

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

• Layered hand-trap and negation package (Ash x3, Droll x2, Maxx "C", Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Dominus Impulse)
• Archetype core is effectively always accessible in opening hands
• Extra Deck offers several independent boss routes across Xyz, Fusion, Link and Synchro
• Legal list with no copy-limit or size violations

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combo boards, so floor and median output are unmeasured
• Pendulum scale and Dark Contract dependence makes the engine fragile to a single disruption
• Many 1-copy Extra Deck bosses create uneven access to any one finisher

Critical choke points

• Dark Contract access (5 copies) for the Graveyard and Extra-Deck recursion lines
• Pendulum scale placement, which sets which Pendulum monsters can be summoned together
• Getting a live Extra-Deck boss without a hand trap backup

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Legal in Master Duel with 40 Main, 15 Extra and 0 Side; Limited and Semi-Limited cards are within legal copy limits; Extra Deck breakdown: 3 Link, 7 Xyz, 3 Fusion, 2 Synchro; Archetype core group of 25 copies is present in the deck
• Observed: Usage statistics show the D/D/D core is standard, with 14 of 25 core cards present
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter access from hypergeometric estimates; Hand-trap and negation quality from card text; Engine compactness and redundancy from composition
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample supplied)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so 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, so going-first and going-second split is Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied