Digital Bugs Deck #770646 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Level 3 LIGHT Insect Xyz chains (Digital Bug Scaradiator into Digital Bug Corebage or Rhinosebus) producing 2200-2600 ATK boss monsters, supported by Link pieces; Level 3 Insect recursion and chain-to-boss lines through Splitting Planarian, Bug Emergency, Gokipole and Dream Cicada, with Mimicking Man-Eater Bug as a flip-removal body
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Level 3 Insect starter (Cocoondenser, Centibit, Websolder, Dream Cicada, Gokipole) with Verdant Sanctuary or Gokipole searches, then Xyz into Scaradiator or Corebage and clear one blocker with MST, Swords of Revealing Light or Compulsory Evacuation Device
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Mystical Space Typhoon, Swords of Revealing Light, Call of the Haunted and Compulsory Evacuation Device to clear the opponent's set backrow and monsters, then rebuild Xyz boards from the graveyard via Bug Emergency and Planarian
• Recovery: Recover Level 3 Insects from the graveyard with Digital Bug Cocoondenser, Bug Emergency and Planarian, and re-search Insects with Gokipole and Verdant Sanctuary
• After siding: No side deck is present in this Master Duel list; there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Level 3 Insect starter in roughly 58% of going-first 5-card hands (6 Digital Bug Level 3 LIGHT starters plus several generic Level 3 Insects), which keeps engine accessibility above average; this is an Inferred hypergeometric estimate, not an observed rate. Conversion is supported by a plausible Xyz chain to 2200-2600 ATK bosses, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based inferences and the floor is not measured. Interaction density is reasonable (three MST/Swords/CED-style cards plus Call of the Haunted and Bug Emergency negation text) but there are no hand traps, so going-second board-breaking is limited. The score comes from consistency, the boss-level endboard and the interaction count assessed on the whole system; it does not come from Digital Bugs being a known archetype, and no card scores were averaged. Five off-theme Link and Xyz pieces and one D.D. Post dilute the Insect engine, which is why the score is held near the middle of the scale.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55.7, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Engine dilution by off-theme Link and Xyz pieces (-2); Starter concentration on Level 3 LIGHT Digital Bugs (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*55.7 + 0.20*55 - 3 ≈ 53

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.58 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.15 · 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

• Six Level 3 LIGHT Digital Bug starters plus a wider Level 3 Insect pool give a reasonable chance of a live engine on turn 1
• Strong Xyz boss options (Rhinosebus 2600, Corebage 2200, Scaradiator 1800 with negation) on the Extra Deck
• Good removal and backrow interaction density (MST x3, Swords x3, Compulsory Evacuation Device x3, Call of the Haunted x3)
• Recursion via Bug Emergency, Planarian and Cocoondenser gives some resilience to disruption

Weaknesses

• No hand traps or floodgates, so going-second board-breaking depends on backrow removal alone
• Five off-theme Link and Xyz cards and a D.D. Post dilute the Insect engine
• About 42% of going-first 5-card hands contain no Level 3 LIGHT starter
• Side zone is empty, so there is no post-side adaptation
• No recorded boards, usage statistics or tournament data to confirm real-world output

Critical choke points

• Access to a Level 3 LIGHT Digital Bug starter for the first Xyz Summon; without one the engine stalls into generic Insects
• Scaradiator and Corebage both need two Level 3 monsters on field, so one disruption on the second material can collapse the line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 and Extra 15 are within the Master Duel size rules, with no violations and no restricted cards; Digital Bug Level 3 LIGHT starters: 6 in Main; Scaradiator x3, Corebage x2, Rhinosebus x1 in Extra; Card stats and text from the evidence pack (Rhinosebus 2600 ATK, Corebage 2200 ATK, Diamond Crab 3000 DEF)
• Inferred: P(>=1 Level 3 LIGHT starter in going-first 5-card hand) ≈ 0.58 and going-second 6-card hand ≈ 0.65; Xyz chain from Level 3 starters to bosses is plausible from card text but unconfirmed by recorded boards; Interaction density from removal and negation text
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit: no dated metagame sample supplied; Side deck adaptability: Master Duel has no side in this list
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No archetype usage statistics: core and meta-standard comparison unavailable No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null, so the deck is identified only by archetype and id