Argostars Deck #770348 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Warrior beatdown and Xyz/Fusion pressure: Argostars - Glorious Adra and Argostars - Adventurous Arion, backed by Fusion/Link/Xyz extras such as Secreterion Dragon and Gilti-Gearfried.; Direct-attack and board-breaker lines through Heartlandraco and Raigeki, with Dark Hole as a reset.
• Turn 1 (going first): Search an Argostars monster with Giantslaying or Speedroid Terrortop, set up a Continuous Trap (Slayer Eteo, Lightning Tydeu, Swift Capane, Apophis), then extend into an Argostars Warrior or Xyz.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Maxx C) to answer the opponent's first play, then rebuild with Continuous Trap and Argostars monsters.
• Recovery: Recover through the 11 searcher effects and the Arion Xyz re-search of Argostars Spells, and rebuild the Continuous Trap engine from the Deck.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan; Main Deck tools are the only adjustment.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: the 17 exact Argostars copies give a 0.95 probability of at least one core card in the opening five, and the 11 searcher effects keep the chain going. Conversion is real but unmeasured, since no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling (Glorious Adra and Arion beats with Continuous Trap enablers) is a text-based inference. Interaction is the strongest part of the list, with 12 hand traps (about 0.90 chance of one in a going-second six-card hand) and 15 removal or tech effects, which gives good resilience against disruption. The score is held down by the engine's dependence on Continuous Traps (six copies, about 0.58 chance of one in the opening five), weak archetype purity at 31 percent (Kaiju, Roid, Hole and HERO pieces dilute the engine), the lack of a Side Deck, and no meta-share data. Popularity and archetype usage were not counted as power, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 53. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-1); engine_conflicts (-2); unrecoverable_choke_point (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.58 · 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

• Archetype core is reliably present (17 copies, about 0.95 in the opening five)
• Dense interaction: 12 hand traps and 15 removal or tech effects
• Eleven searchers and a re-search Xyz recover resources
• Strong Warrior and Xyz closing stats in the Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Continuous Trap dependence for the core engine
• Low archetype purity (31 percent), with Kaiju, Roid, HERO and Hole pieces diluting the plan
• No Side Deck
• Dead-card risk from situational cards (Kaiju, Dark Hole, Raigeki)

Critical choke points

• No Continuous Trap in the opening hand (about 42 percent going first) stalls the Argostars engine
• Opponent-side Kaiju summon conditions go unmet on an empty board

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; restricted copy counts within limits; Argostars card count is 17 exact-name copies with 31 percent purity; Four restricted cards at legal copy counts; Card text and stats for all 37 distinct cards
• Observed: Archetype usage stats show Adra, Giantslaying and the Continuous Traps as commonly run cards
• Inferred: Engine-live probabilities (Continuous Trap about 0.58 in five cards); Brick and dead-card estimates from text; Interaction quality and ceiling from card text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample or tournament link)
• 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, starter or OTK rates) no Side Deck supplied (0 cards), so D12 is scored without performance evidence Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied