Goblin Deck #765899 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Goblin Xyz and Link beaters (Goblin's Crazy Beast 2700, Downerd Magician, Goblin Biker Big Gabonga) and Fiendsmith / Radiant Typhoon pressure, converted off a searched starter; Fiendsmith Fusion and Link pressure (Fiendsmith's Lacrima, Fiendsmith's Agnumday) backed by the Argostars and Radiant Typhoon trap and monster lines
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a starter with Goblin Biker Grand Entrance, Radiant Typhoon Swen or Speedroid Terrortop, then extend into a Goblin Xyz or Link Summon while holding Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Maxx C for the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Tour Guide) and Forbidden Droplet / Forbidden Crown to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Goblin searches and Xyz Summons
• Recovery: Searchers and recursion (Goblin Biker Mean Merciless and Dugg Charger from the GY, Goblin Biker Clatter Sploder, Radiant Typhoon Chant and Vision) rebuild the board from a 0-1 card hand
• After siding: Not applicable in Master Duel: side deck size is 0, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reliably through searchers: P(at least one searcher text card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.91, so most hands can reach a starter, though the Goblin core specifically is only about 0.47 to be live in an opening hand (Inferred). It converts into pressure through several independent Xyz, Link and Fusion lines (Goblin's Crazy Beast, Downerd Magician, Fiendsmith Lacrima, Argostars Glorious Adra), and its 6 hand traps plus 14 negation-text cards give it real interaction for going second. Its main weakness is that it is a multi-archetype pile rather than an engine: only 12% of cards are exact Goblin names, with 66 off-archetype copies across Radiant Typhoon, Fiendsmith, Argostars, Forbidden, Triple Tactics, Phantom Knights and Mulcharmy, so resilience comes from redundancy rather than a single coherent engine. Popularity and archetype usage were not credited as power, and the 14 dimensions were not averaged from the card scores; no combo boards or tournament records exist, so the ceiling and floor are text-based and Inferred.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary (approx 85%) with Toolbox secondary (approx 15%); weights taken from the Midrange row of the strategy table. Structural ≈ 55.5, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Engine conflicts across sub-archetypes (-3); Weak engine compactness (-2); Hand-trap and searcher density (1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*55.5 + 0.20*52 - 4 = 50.8, rounded to 51

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.47 · 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 searcher text (22 cards): P(searcher in opening hand) approx 0.91
• Six hand traps plus 14 negation-text cards give layered going-second interaction
• Extra Deck uses all 15 slots with several 2500+ ATK bosses
• Legal in Master Duel: copy counts respect Limited and Semi-Limited caps

Weaknesses

• Low exact-archetype purity (12%) and 66 off-archetype copies weaken engine coherence
• Goblin core is only about 0.47 live in an opening hand
• Mulcharmy Fuwalos x3 and Forbidden/Triple Tactics lines have no clear home in the Goblin plan
• Median output unknown without recorded boards

Critical choke points

• The Goblin core (7 main copies) gates the Goblin Xyz plan; without it the deck relies on the smaller Radiant Typhoon and Fiendsmith lines
• Radiant Typhoon and Fiendsmith lines both depend on Mystical Space Typhoon or Fiendsmith's Tract to start

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within Master Duel size rules; All restricted cards run at or under legal copy limits; Copy histogram 1:22, 2:7, 3:8 matches the card list; Extra Deck breakdown: 9 Xyz, 4 Link, 2 Fusion
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand odds for searchers and Goblin core; Hand-trap and negation density as resilience; Engine conflicts from archetype spread
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13); Side deck adaptability (D12, no side deck in Master Duel)
• 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 for going-first/second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample Data inconsistency: usage_statistics marks Goblin Biker Big Gabonga in_this_deck=false, but cards[] lists it in the Extra Deck (zone extra, 1 copy); the Extra Deck count of 15 matches the cards[] list, so this was taken as present No side deck in Master Duel, so D12 is scored from absence and is Provisional