Ryu-Ge Deck #773398 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ryu-Ge Pendulum/Ritual and 3000+ ATK Dragons (Sosei Ryu-Ge Mistva 3500, Tensei Ryu-Ge Anva, Kairo, Genro, Kyoro) reached through Ryu-Ge searchers and Ryu-Ge Realm continuous spells; Generic Extra Deck boss monsters (Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X Dragon 4000, Galaxy-Eyes Full Armor Photon Dragon 4000, Baronne de Fleur, Elder Entity N'tss) when the engine is interrupted
• Turn 1 (going first): Ryu-Ge Rising or Melody of Awakening Dragon to fetch a Ryu-Ge monster, Ryu-Ge Realm to set up the Pendulum/Continuous zone, then Mistva or Anva for board; hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Maxx C) held for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Maxx C, Nibiru or PSY-Framegear Gamma for the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Kairo Ryu-Ge Emva or Genro Ryu-Ge Hakva search and a Ryu-Ge Realm; Forbidden Crown and Subspace Battle as board-breakers
• Recovery: Ryu-Ge End and Ryu-Ge Rivalry recur Ryu-Ge monsters; Kairo and Genro special-summon from the GY or banishment after two monsters are sent to the GY; Ryu-Ge Realm - Wyrm Winds and Dino Domains add continuity
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has 0 Side Deck cards and Master Duel offers no sideboarding in ranked play; there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Ryu-Ge engine: the 33-copy archetype core has about a 98.5% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and 20 searcher-text cards give about 88% for at least one searcher (Inferred, hypergeometric). Its conversion ceiling rests on 3000 to 4000 ATK Dragons and Pendulum/Ritual Mistva, which score well for closing power, but no recorded boards exist, so the median output is unverified and held near neutral. Interaction is a real strength: nine hand traps, Ryu-Ge End and Ryu-Ge Realm protection, and negation text across about 14 cards let it continue through disruption and recur from the GY. The score is driven by consistency, resilience, and interaction on the system, not by the popularity of the Ryu-Ge name, and not by averaging card scores; the Extra Deck contains no Ryu-Ge monsters and the deck has no Side Deck, which caps its adaptability and pulls the final score down.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 67, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: engine dilution / toolbox density (-3); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(62.4) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(60) + ContextModifiers(-4) = 57.9, rounded to 58; Meta provisional (no dated sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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 near-certain to appear in the opening 5 (Inferred)
• Two-layer interaction: nine hand traps plus Ryu-Ge End, Ryu-Ge Realm negates, and Forbidden Crown
• Multiple 3000+ ATK bosses with GY/banish recursion for resilience
• Full 60/15 build with legal copy counts for all restricted cards

Weaknesses

• Extra Deck contains no Ryu-Ge monsters, so the bosses do not come from the engine
• No Side Deck, and Master Duel offers no sideboarding, so no adaptation plan
• Fifteen single-copy main-deck cards and conditional cards (Lava Golem, PSY-Frame Driver, Guardragon Justicia with no text hints) add dead-draw risk
• Heavy reliance on four Limited cards and one Semi-Limited card for interaction

Critical choke points

• Ryu-Ge Realm and Pendulum zone state gate most Ryu-Ge plays; losing a Realm to a single removal or disruption cuts off recovery
• Mistva and Anva depend on Pendulum/Ritual setup; a single hand-trap or negation hit can leave the engine stalled

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel with 60 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side; Restricted-card copy counts within legal limits (Herald 1, Maxx C 1, Mudora 1, PSY-Framegear Gamma 1, The Fallen & The Virtuous 2); Ryu-Ge exact-name purity 22 of 60 main copies (29.3%); Zero Ryu-Ge Extra Deck monsters
• Observed: Usage statistics show the archetype core at 81% present (17 of 21 core cards)
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency: 0.985 for core, 0.88 for searchers (hypergeometric); Interaction density from text: negation on about 14 cards, removal on about 28, hand traps on 9; Going-second hand-trap coverage 0.64 for six-card hand; Engine-dilution and brick-risk judgements from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: 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/second, matchup, and brick/starter/OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Usage stats mark Herald of the Arc Light (card 79606837) as not in deck, but cards[] lists it at 1 copy in the Extra Deck; this is a data inconsistency, and the core-present percentage is likely understated (18 of 21 if Herald is present) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied