Bamboo Sword Deck #773505 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 46/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 11 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck beatsticks and Spell-Counter-powered Endymion/Magistus boards (Endymion 2800 ATK, Number C104 3000 ATK, Dark Magician of Destruction 2800 ATK) converting draw-spell card advantage into direct or piercing damage; Bamboo Sword direct-attack pressure via Cursed and Original Bamboo Sword equips, with Original Bamboo Sword's board-wipe on battle damage
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Spellcaster or Magistus starter, use draw spells (Upstart Goblin, Royal Magical Library, Golden Bamboo Sword) to find a Level 4 Spellcaster or Endymion, and build a Xyz or Synchro board (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Rely on draw spells and Spell-Counter removal (Magia Magic, Number C104, Ecclesia) to answer the opponent's board one-for-one, since the list has no hand traps to disrupt the opposing turn (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recur Spell Power Mastery and Spell Power Attainment, reuse Spell Counters on Royal Magical Library and Magical Abductor, and use Jackpot 7 or Into the Void-style draw to rebuild a hand (Inferred)
• After siding: Not applicable: side deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan in this list

Why it scores here

The deck was scored as a connected system, not as an average of its cards. It opens reliably on draw and search text (9 searcher cards, p≥1 ≈ 0.73 for the searcher group) but has only 10 monsters among 41 main-deck cards, so a large share of opening hands will be spell-only bricks. Its strongest dimensions are card draw and recovery (D6), Extra-Deck closing power across Endymion, Number C104 and Dark Magician of Destruction (D9), and removal-text interaction (D7). Its weakest are opening-hand brick management (D2), side-deck adaptability (no side deck, D12) and going-second board-breaking (D8), since it has no hand traps. Popularity and archetype share were not available and did not add points, and the ceiling was not reported as the typical result. The no-combo, no-tournament and no-win-rate evidence pulls confidence to Medium and keeps Meta Power provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 46, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 46. Modifiers: Brick-prone monster count (-2); Engine conflict across sub-archetypes (-2); Banlist exposure (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 51.3, TR 46, modifiers -4, final ≈ 46

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.73 · 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

• Heavy draw and recovery spell suite
• Several 2500–3000 ATK Extra-Deck closers
• Nine removal-text cards and two negation-text cards

Weaknesses

• Only 10 monsters in the main deck, so spell bricks are common
• No hand traps or floodgates for going-second disruption
• Low archetype purity, with 45 of 52 main-deck copies off-archetype
• Empty side deck

Critical choke points

• Dependence on a Level 4 Spellcaster or Endymion starter for most engine lines
• Spell-Counter removal cost (Magia Magic, Number C104) depends on counters from only a few cards

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Master Duel with 41 main, 11 extra and 0 side cards; Foolish Burial Goods Limited at 1 copy; Card text and stats for all 36 distinct cards; Searcher text count 9 and removal text count 9
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter probabilities used for consistency; Midrange primary strategy and Combo secondary strategy; Brick risk from the 10-monster count; Going-first and going-second plans
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Format fit (D13) with no tournament data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match records are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups or brick rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Side deck is empty, so post-side evaluation is not possible