Power Patron Deck #773403 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Level 10 Fusion/Xyz/Synchro bosses (Nerva 3300 ATK, Jupiter 3500 ATK, Junora 3100 ATK) plus Gustav Max direct damage; Link-monster Extra Deck pressure (Charmer, Exceed the Pendulum, Beyond the Pendulum) once the Pendulum engine is live
• Turn 1 (going first): Search or add a Power Patron engine piece with one of 18 searcher-text cards (P of at least one in a 5-card hand about 0.96, Inferred), then reach a Level 10 boss through Pendulum and Extra Deck summons while holding hand traps for the opponent's first answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 9 hand traps (P of at least one in a 6-card hand about 0.81, Inferred) to negate the opponent's first activation, then rebuild the Power Patron board and summon a boss
• Recovery: Recur through Medius the Pure (GY effect), Junoldo (Pendulum-zone draw) and the Power Patron searchers, then re-summon a boss from the Extra Deck
• After siding: None. The list runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan (D12 penalised)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan because 18 searcher-text cards give roughly a 0.96 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and the Pendulum starters (Nervedo, Jupredo, Vidolium, Shade, Medius) are mostly 3-copy cards that each carry only about a 0.34 chance of appearing in that hand. It converts plans into pressure through three Level 10 bosses (Nerva, Jupiter, Junora) and Gustav Max, which read as a high ceiling from card text alone because no recorded boards exist. Interaction is the strongest system property: 9 hand traps and about 18 negation-text cards give high going-second odds (about 0.81 for at least one hand trap in 6 cards), which lifts D7 and D8. Popularity and archetype usage confirmed that the list is real and accessible but earned no points by themselves, the 15 Extra Deck singletons and 0 side cards pull the score down, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 66.5, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 75, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-1); single_copy_extra_boss_dependence (-2); engine_compactness_searcher_density (2); engine_conflicts (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; 0.80*66.5 + 0.20*56 - 4 = 60.4)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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

• Three Level 10 Extra Deck bosses (Nerva, Jupiter, Junora) backed by 15 Pendulum monsters in the Main Deck (Verified text)
• Searcher density: P of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand is about 0.96 (Inferred)
• Layered interaction: 9 hand traps and about 18 negation-text cards, with high going-second hand-trap odds (Inferred)
• Legal list with no violations and a full 15-card Extra Deck (Verified)

Weaknesses

• No side deck: 0 of 15 side slots used, so no post-side adaptation (Verified)
• Extra Deck is all singletons, so each specific boss is hard to reach in a given game (Verified composition, Inferred)
• Low exact archetype purity (18.2%) across 16 archetype names weakens engine coherence (Verified)
• No combo evidence, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Accessing the engine: the searcher hit (about 0.96) followed by a 3-copy Pendulum starter (about 0.34 each in 5 cards) is the main line
• Single-copy Extra Deck bosses (Nerva, Jupiter, Junora): losing them leaves no listed backup boss
• Non-engine hand traps (Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit) are weak without the engine on board

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status, 40 Main and 15 Extra, no violations (legality block); Copy counts and banlist statuses (cards[], restricted_cards); Hypergeometric draw odds (probabilities block); Extra Deck composition: 7 Link, 4 Xyz, 3 Fusion, 1 Synchro (composition); Usage stats for Ash Blossom, Prohibited Power Patron Portal, Maxx C and Junoldo (usage_statistics)
• Observed: Usage stats show the three Power Patron bosses in 82-100% of published lists (usage_statistics)
• Inferred: Going-first and going-second estimates for the engine and hand traps (hypergeometric plus text); Interaction quality (D7) from negation and removal text; Boss ceiling (D3) from card text, with no recorded boards; Pilotability and error tolerance (D14)
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13), archetype share unavailable; Median output (D4): guide snippet only
• 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 in YGOVN: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Preprocessor defect: usage_statistics marks 10 Extra Deck cards (Junora, Nerva, Jupiter, Artmage Non-Finito, Varudras, Exceed the Pendulum, Beyond the Pendulum, Charmer Quartet, S:P Little Knight, Mercurium) as in_this_deck=false and lists them in missing_core, although they are present in cards[] with zone extra; core_present_pct 58.3 is therefore understated and those cards were treated as present Shade the Obscure archetype field contains a malformed token ('| supports_archetypes Power Patron'); it was read as Power Patron archetype_core_group p_open=1 is a proxy and was not used for consistency scoring Deck title is null; the deck is identified by archetype and id only