Vaalmonica Deck #773559 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Mechanic: Pendulum/Link/Synchro
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters after a Pendulum-zone setup: Vidolium (5000 ATK) from the Main Deck, Link-1 Zebufera and Duralume (2500 ATK each, gated by 3 Resonance Counters), Elfnote June Pride (3100 ATK) and Elfnote Seraphim Strelitzia (3000 DEF-side body with 3000 original ATK in the center zone).; Searcher-driven card advantage through Elfnote, Vaalmonica and Fiendsmith searchers, feeding repeat Link and Synchro summons.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a searcher (Scelta, Versare, Disarmonia, Lucina or Engraver) to set a pendulum pair and build Resonance Counters, then Link or Synchro Summon a board-presence boss; hold Ash Blossom and Droll for the opponent's first activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C) to disrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through searchers into an Extra Deck boss.
• Recovery: Recover from disruption by searching again with the 30 searcher-text copies and re-entering the Extra Deck through Pendulum-zone counters and Engraver/Mulcharmy recursion.
• After siding: No side deck is run (side 0; Master Duel has no sideboard in this format), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably finds a searcher: 30 Main Deck copies carry search text, giving about 0.97 odds of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), so the Vaalmonica, Elfnote and Fiendsmith lines are usually reachable even though any single 3-copy starter appears only about 23% of the time on the play. Its ceiling comes from Extra Deck and Main Deck bosses whose ATK is printed on the cards (Vidolium 5000, June Pride 3100, Seraphim 3000, Link-2500 Zebufera and Duralume), but no recorded boards exist, so median output and conversion are text-only estimates. Interaction is layered: 7 hand traps, Crossout Designator, Maxx C, and several Extra Deck monsters with negate text support a going-second plan. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction measured on the system, not from Vaalmonica's popularity or from averaging card scores; the 29.3% exact-name purity and 53 off-archetype copies cost points for engine conflict, and Meta Power stays provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: engine conflict (multi-archetype spread) (-4); pendulum-zone dependence (-2); searcher redundancy (3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• Searcher density: 30 searcher-text copies, group P(>=1 in opening 5) ~0.97 (Inferred)
• Layered interaction: 7 hand traps plus Crossout Designator, Maxx C and Infinite Impermanence (card text verified)
• High printed ATK across Extra Deck and Main Deck bosses (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Low exact-name purity (29.3%) and 53 off-archetype copies spread engine resources across four sub-engines
• No recorded combos, so floor, median and conversion are unmeasured
• Pendulum-zone dependence for Zebufera and Duralume Resonance Counter requirements

Critical choke points

• Pendulum pair (Angello scale 3 with Dimonno scale 5) and Resonance Counter placement via Vaalmonica Scelta, Disarmonia and Versare
• Link and Synchro summons that depend on Fiend/Fairy/Elfnote material being present in the right zones

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 60 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within Master Duel size rules (main 40-60, extra 0-15); Restricted copies within limits: Maxx C 1/1 (Limited), Crossout Designator 1/1 (Limited), Droll & Lock Bird 2/2 (Semi-Limited); Card text and printed ATK/DEF for all 32 Main and 15 Extra distinct cards; Copy histogram 16 singles, 4 doubles, 12 triples; Extra Deck breakdown 6 Link, 6 Synchro, 2 Fusion, 1 Xyz
• Inferred: Searcher group P(>=1 in opening 5) ~0.97 gives high opening access to the engine; Going-second hand-trap group P(>=1 in 6) ~0.54; Pendulum and Resonance Counter route is reachable through Scelta, Disarmonia and Versare (text read); Structural consistency and median output scores are estimates without recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup/format fit; Post-side plan (no side deck in format)
• Data gaps: No recorded combos: combos_evidence has no parseable boards, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta Power is provisional: no dated metagame sample supplied usage_statistics conflict with the cards list: Fiendsmith's Requiem, Fiendsmith's Lacrima, Fiendsmith's Sequence, Duralume, D/D/D Wave High King Caesar, S:P Little Knight and Zebufera are present as Extra Deck copies in cards[] but flagged in_this_deck:false, so core_present_pct 70.8 is unreliable and was not used Deck title is null; no side deck is run