Call of the Haunted Deck #773513 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 50/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion-summon Gem-Knight Ruby (x3) or Topaz off Gem-Knight Garnet / Tourmaline plus a Gem-Knight, then convert with double-attack or ATK-boost pressure; Call of the Haunted recursion of a Gem-Knight or Ningirsu/Cairngorgon-style Extra Deck boards (Inferred from text; no recorded lines)
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Gem-Armadillo or flip Gem-Turtle to search a Gem-Knight, then Gem-Knight Fusion or Gem-Knight Alexandrite self-tribute to reach a Garnet-based Fusion Summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Swords of Revealing Light, Mystical Space Typhoon, Compulsory Evacuation Device and Overexaggeration to clear the opponent's set backrow or monsters, then Fusion Summon a Ruby and attack twice through the board (Inferred)
• Recovery: Call of the Haunted or Gem-Knight Fusion recovers a Gem-Knight from the GY, and Gem-Knight Fusion is re-added from the GY by banishing a Gem-Knight (Verified text, Inferred use)
• After siding: No side deck: the deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan (Verified legality, Inferred weakness)

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably into a Normal Summon engine: three Gem-Armadillo and three Gem-Turtle give a combined searcher group with about 69% chance of at least one searcher in an opening 5-card hand (Inferred hypergeometric), and the Gem-Knight Normal monsters feed Alexandrite and the Ruby/Topaz fusions. Conversion to pressure is credible on paper (Ruby 2500 ATK, Topaz double attack) but no recorded boards exist, so ceiling and median are text-only inferences and the median is scored conservatively. Survival comes from seven spell/trap interaction cards and recursion through Call of the Haunted and Gem-Knight Fusion, but there are no hand traps, no negation text and no side deck, which caps going-second and post-side performance. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction on the system; popularity did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 54, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: hard-garnet burden (-2); weak post-side plan (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*55 + 0.20*52 - 4 = 50.4, rounded to 50

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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 searchers (Gem-Armadillo, Gem-Turtle) at 3 copies each feed the Gem-Knight engine
• Gem-Knight Fusion recurs from GY, giving a resource loop
• Seven interaction spell/trap cards provide layered removal and protection
• Triple Ruby guarantees the fusion finisher in the Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• No hand traps, negation or floodgates to answer going-second boards
• No side deck and no post-side plan
• Diffuse Extra Deck: only 5 Xyz and 5 Link, with 2 of 8 core Xyz/Link cards absent
• Limited recorded combo data, so ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Garnet and Tourmaline (single copies of Normal Gem-Knights) gate Ruby and Topaz
• Call of the Haunted depends on a GY monster target

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 40 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side, no copy-limit violations, all cards Unlimited; Card text and stats for all 17 Main and 13 Extra distinct cards; Archetype spread: 21 Gem- copies, 3 Call of the Haunted copies, 52 off-archetype; Usage stats show Call of the Haunted core cards present (7 of 15 core cards)
• Observed: No parseable combo boards, guides or tournament link were supplied
• Inferred: Starter access, brick rate and recursion use from hypergeometric odds and card text; Ceiling and going-second board-breaking from card text; Interaction quality from role tags and removal text; Pilotability from the number of fusion, tribute and search steps
• Provisional: Meta power (null) and matchup fit (D13) need a dated metagame sample
• 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 exists in YGOVN - going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no guides attached to the archetype