Man-Eater Bug Deck #770648 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 44/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Insect Xyz/Link engine
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Insect Xyz/Link board built from Level 3 Insect searches and Special Summons (Gokipole, Splitting Planarian, Dream Cicada, Digital Bug Level 3 Light Insects) into Digital Bug Scaradiator / Corebage / Rhinosebus and the single-copy Link and Xyz boss monsters.; Recurring Insect Level 3 monsters from the GY through Digital Bug Cocoondenser/Centibit/Websolder effects and Bug Emergency, with one-for-one removal (Mystical Space Typhoon, Swords of Revealing Light, Compulsory Evacuation Device, Call of the Haunted, Jelly Cannon) to clear the way.
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening 5 with a Level 3 Insect starter (Gokipole, Planarian, Dream Cicada, or Cocoondenser) to search or summon a second Level 3 Insect, then a Digital Bug Xyz with the Light Insect pair; hold one removal spell for the opponent's first board.
• Turn 2 (going second): Opening 6 with a removal spell or Bug Emergency to answer the opposing board, then rebuild through Insect searches; the deck has no hand traps or floodgates to stop the opponent's first turn.
• Recovery: Gokipole and Planarian return from the GY/Deck through Verdant Sanctuary (Insect searches on destruction) and Digital Bug Cocoondenser (Level 3 Insect recursion), so the Insect engine can rebuild after one board is cleared.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan; any adaptation would require adding a side list in-game.

Why it scores here

The deck's reliable opening rests on the Insect engine: P(at least one of the three Gokipole or Splitting Planarian copies in a 5-card hand) is about 0.58 for the six-copy starter group, and about 0.95 that the opening contains at least one archetype-tagged card (Inferred, hypergeometric). The Xyz line (three Digital Bug Scaradiator, two Corebage) and the Light Insect Level 3 pool (six copies) are the strongest conversion routes, but no recorded boards exist, so conversion is text-only and Inferred. Interaction is one-for-one (Mystical Space Typhoon, Swords of Revealing Light, Compulsory Evacuation Device, Call of the Haunted, Jelly Cannon) with no hand traps or floodgates, which limits going-second strength. Popularity and archetype share were not credited: exact archetype-name purity is only 5.5%, and 52 of 55 archetype-linked copies sit outside the exact archetype. The score comes from the system's engine access, recursion and boss-size threats, not from averaging card scores, and it is held down by the thin Extra Deck and the missing side deck.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Extra Deck fragmentation (-2); No side deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (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

• Two independent Level 3 Insect starters (Gokipole, Planarian) with searcher and summon text
• Six Light Level 3 Insects enabling the Digital Bug Xyz line
• Boss-size Xyz/Link threats (Rhinosebus, Gaia Saber, Ningirsu)
• Recursion via Verdant Sanctuary and Cocoondenser

Weaknesses

• Exact archetype purity is 5.5%, so the build is mostly generic staples
• No hand traps or floodgates for going second
• Eight single-copy Extra Deck Link/Xyz cards with no shared support
• No side deck and no recorded boards or tournament data

Critical choke points

• The Level 3 Light Insect pool (six copies) must be present to make Scaradiator/Corebage live
• A single removal spell must clear the first opposing board on going second

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 40 main / 15 extra / 0 side within size_rules; no violations; no restricted cards; Copy histogram 1:2, 2:7, 3:8; 17 distinct main, 12 distinct extra; Archetype purity 5.5% exact name; 52 off-archetype copies
• Inferred: Insect engine reliability ≈ 0.58 for the Gokipole/Planarian group in hand 5; Xyz line viability from card text (Scaradiator, Corebage, Rhinosebus); Interaction count and going-second weakness from role_hint_tags and text
• Provisional: Tournament reliability and format fit: no meta sample or tournament link; Meta Power null
• 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 side deck: post-side adaptation cannot be evaluated usage_statistics.core_cards mark Extra Deck cards (Ningirsu, Gaia Saber, Sorcerer of Sebek, Codebreaker, Number 80, Number 52) as in_this_deck:false although the evidence cards list has them in the Extra zone, so core_present_pct 24 is likely undercounted (about 12 of 25 when Extra cards are included); confidence not raised on this No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied