D/D/D Deck #765796 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck D/D/D kings (Deus Machinex, Arc Crisis, Kali Yuga, Bright Armageddon) converting a Pendulum-built board into an end-board of high-ATK bodies; Link and Xyz boards from Gilgamesh, Zeus and Solomon once the Extra Deck is accessible
• Turn 1 (going first): Pendulum-based opening that searches a Dark Contract / D/D monster and sets up Pendulum Scales, while holding Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Droll & Lock Bird as interaction (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand held for hand traps (Ash, Impermanence, Droll, Maxx C) and Dominus Impulse / Dominus Spark to negate the opponent's Special Summon, then convert into a Pendulum or Extra Deck board (Inferred)
• Recovery: Necro Slime fusion from the GY, Dark Contract with the Zero King and Gryphon-style recursion to rebuild the Pendulum Zones and Extra Deck access (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: None. The deck runs 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no recorded post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens through its searcher and Pendulum starters (Dark Contract with the Gate x3, Kepler, Gryphon, Machinex, Scale Surveyor, each x3) and has a 0.78 hypergeometric chance of at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card hand (Inferred). It converts into pressure through a full 15-card Extra Deck of D/D/D kings, and its ceiling is supported by high-ATK bodies such as Arc Crisis (4000 ATK) and Deus Machinex (3000 ATK). It survives interruption through 14 negation-text cards and 9 hand traps, which gives the strongest scores on interruption resilience and endboard interaction. Its weak points are the absence of any recorded boards, the lack of a Side Deck, and high pilot complexity, so the floor and median are scored lower than the ceiling. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype core is widely run, which only confirms the list is real. The score comes from consistency, conversion and interaction on the system, not from averaging the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); weak post-side plan (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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 negation and hand-trap package (14 negation-text cards, 9 hand traps)
• Strong Extra Deck closing bodies (Arc Crisis 4000 ATK, Deus Machinex 3000 ATK, Kali Yuga 3500 ATK)
• Searcher density (10 searcher-text cards, Dark Contract with the Gate x3)
• Full, coherent Extra Deck of D/D/D kings

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combos or boards, so floor and median are unmeasured
• High pilot complexity from Pendulum scale and Extra Deck sequencing
• Two Limited cards (Maxx "C", Crossout Designator) at the copy limit increase banlist exposure

Critical choke points

• Pendulum Zone setup (two Pendulum cards with compatible scales) before the board can develop
• Extra Deck access depends on Pendulum Summons and Dark Contract resources

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal under BanMasterDuel with 40 main, 15 extra and 0 side cards; Limited and Semi-Limited cards are at their legal copy limits; Card text for all listed cards is taken from the evidence excerpts
• Observed: Usage statistics show the D/D/D core is largely present in this list (25 of 25 core cards present once the Extra Deck is counted)
• Inferred: Starter and brick consistency estimates from hypergeometric draws and card text; Interaction quality and endboard strength from card text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13) need a dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: no archetype meta-share or per-pilot match record No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Usage-statistics in_this_deck flags count only the Main Deck. The 11 entries in missing_core (e.g. Gilgamesh, Zeus, Kali Yuga, Deus Arc Crisis) are present in the Extra Deck in the cards list, so the reported 56% core presence understates the real 25 of 25 Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied