Drytron Deck #766246 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual and Link/Xyz pressure: Drytron 2000-ATK bodies and Ritual monsters (Borreload Riot Dragon 3000 ATK, Evigishki Mind Augus 2500 ATK) turn into boards that close with Number 70, Hraesvelgr and Triple Burst Dragon at 2400 ATK.; Drytron Nova and Drytron Zeta/Delta recursion from GY, with Fafnir and Zeta adding Drytron spells and traps to keep the engine fed.
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Drytron Nova or a Drytron tribute line, Special Summoning a Drytron from Deck or hand, then extending into a Link or Xyz with Ichiki, Aratama or Nikitama fuelling Normal Summons.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Torrential Tribute, Mystical Space Typhoon, Borreload Riot Dragon negation or Triple Burst Dragon negation to break the opponent's board, then rebuild through Drytron recursion.
• Recovery: Recover from GY through Drytron Zeta and Delta, which can be Special Summoned from the GY, and Spirit monsters that return to hand to be replayed.
• After siding: Not available: the deck runs no Side Deck (side_count 0), so the post-side plan is limited to tuning the Main Deck from game to game.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Drytron starter: the 13 exact-name Drytron cards give an estimated 0.88 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred hypergeometric), and Drytron Nova and Zeta/Delta can Special Summon from Deck, hand or GY. Conversion is structurally plausible through Ritual and Link/Xyz finishers reaching 2400–3000 ATK, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only estimates and are scored conservatively. Interaction is real (Torrential Tribute, Mystical Space Typhoon, two negation-capable Link/Ritual cards), but there is no sideboard, which caps adaptability. The score comes from consistency, recursion and interaction on the system, not from Drytron being a popular archetype and not from averaging card scores; meta share is absent and Meta Power stays provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: No side deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.12 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core Drytron cards at three copies each give high starter consistency (≈0.88 for at least one core card in a 5-card hand).
• Recursion from GY and hand-bounce Spirits give multiple restart paths after disruption.
• Layered interaction: Torrential Tribute, Mystical Space Typhoon, and negation text on Borreload and Triple Burst Dragon.
• Closing power at 2400–3000 ATK across Ritual and Link/Xyz finishers.

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck; the deck cannot adapt between games in best-of-3 play.
• Only 23.6% of Main Deck cards are exact-name Drytron, so the engine depends on a large generic and cross-archetype support base.
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unmeasured.
• Ritual tribute requirements and Drytron-specific Special Summon conditions raise error risk.

Critical choke points

• Drytron Nova and Zeta/Delta require a Drytron monster or Ritual monster to tribute, so a hand without core cards collapses the engine.
• Single-copy Ritual and Link extras (Haggard Lizardose, Hraesvelgr, Triple Burst Dragon, Shinobi, Codebreaker) need specific material to reach the Extra Deck.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 40 Main (range 40–60), 15 Extra (range 0–15), 0 Side, no violations, no restricted cards.; Drytron core: 13 exact-name Drytron cards; purity 23.6%.; Searcher-text count 14, negation-text count 5, removal-text count 16.; Usage stats show 5 of 6 archetype core cards present (83.3%).
• Inferred: At least one core Drytron card in 5-card hand ≈ 0.88 (hypergeometric).; Going-first and going-second ratings from the system read.; Ceiling and resilience from card text only.
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13) need a dated metagame sample.; Tournament reliability and median output have no tournament or combo data.
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick and OTK rates) Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample deck title is null