Chimera Deck #770362 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon high-ATK Extra Deck boss monsters (Azamina, Luce, Guardian Chimera, Nerva, Chaos Angel) through Chimera Fusion and Artmage/Azamina fusion routes; Sinful Spoils and Azamina recursion plus direct-damage and ATK-reduction effects
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Gazelle, Nightmare Apprentice or Medius into Chimera Fusion or an Artmage route, then fuse a boss monster (Inferred from text; no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-trap the first opposing play with Ash Blossom, Maxx C or Droll and Lock Bird, then rebuild a fusion board (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recur Fusion materials and extenders from the GY (Mutiny in the Sky, Artmage Litera, WANTED, Cornfield Coatl) and re-search with the 29 searcher-text cards (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; Master Duel rules leave adaptation to deck building only

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional line: the archetype core group gives an 88% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, and 29 searcher-text cards give a 97% chance of at least one searcher (hypergeometric, Inferred). It converts that access into large Extra Deck boss monsters through Chimera Fusion and the Artmage and Azamina routes, and its ceiling is high on paper (Azamina 4000 ATK, Luce 3500, Guardian Chimera 3300). It survives disruption with 6 hand traps, 16 negation-text cards and 19 removal-text cards, and it can recur materials from the GY. Its weaknesses are a low exact-name purity of 6.7% across 70 off-archetype copies (Artmage, Azamina, Sinful Spoils, Diabell and generic cards), a missing side deck that removes post-side adaptation, and no recorded boards to measure a median. The score comes from consistency, interaction and closing power evaluated on the system; popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine conflicts (-4); weak post-side plan (-3). Final formula: Meta-neutral: Structural with D13 dropped and renormalised over 95 weight = 63.7; Final = 0.80*63.7 + 0.20*56 = 62.2; minus 9 context modifiers = 53 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · 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

• Searcher density: 29 searcher-text cards give near-certain access to a live engine
• Layered interaction: 6 hand traps, 16 negation-text and 19 removal-text cards
• Boss-monster ceiling at 3000 to 4000 ATK in the Extra Deck
• Multiple fusion routes give redundancy against a single interruption

Weaknesses

• Low exact-name purity (6.7%) across Artmage, Azamina, Sinful Spoils, Diabell and generic cards
• No side deck, so no matchup adaptation
• Pilotability is demanding across several multi-step fusion lines
• Median output is unmeasured because no recorded boards exist

Critical choke points

• Chimera Fusion (3 copies) as the main fusion enabler; if it is dead, the Chimera line stalls
• Fusion material availability, since 14 Fusion monsters need specific Beast, Fiend, Illusion or Artmage material

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal 60/15/0 for Master Duel with all four restricted cards within legal copy limits; Composition, copy histogram and purity figures match the deck list; Extra Deck contents: 14 Fusion and 1 Synchro
• Inferred: Opening-hand access to the core engine (0.88) and to a searcher (0.97); Hand-trap effectiveness and going-second interaction; Consistency and resilience estimates from card text
• Provisional: Meta and matchup fit (D13) and Meta Power; Median and floor output (D4), held neutral without boards
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so 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 exists in YGOVN, so going-first/second and matchup rates are unknown Usage statistics mark Chimera the King of Phantom Beasts, Chimera the Illusion Beast, Berfomet the Mythical King and Predaplant Dragostapelia as not in this deck, yet they are in the Extra Deck list; core_present_pct (32) is therefore unreliable and was not used Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied