/Assault Mode Deck #773771 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Assault Mode Activate tributes a Synchro monster and Special Summons a /Assault Mode boss of the same name stem (T.G. Halberd Cannon/Assault Mode, Red Dragon Archfiend/Assault Mode, Junk Warrior/Assault Mode, Stardust Dragon/Assault Mode) from the Deck, then the boss ends the opponent's board.; Crimson Blader/Assault Mode and Junk Warrior/Assault Mode pressure through ATK gain and doubled battle damage; Assault Mode Zero and Assault Teleport give recursion and card flow.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a searcher (Psi-Reflector, Assault Beast, Assault Lich, Duel Evolution - Assault Zone) to fetch Assault Mode Activate, then Synchro-summon a Tuner-based monster and tribute it into an /Assault Mode boss.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Maxx "C" and Fydraulis Harmonia as hand interaction to stop the opponent's summon, then use a Stardust or T.G. Halberd Cannon negation on the first board-building effect.
• Recovery: Assault Mode Zero (banished from GY) sets Activate from hand or GY, Assault Teleport returns a /Assault Mode monster to draw 2, and Mulcharmy Fuwalos refills the hand when the field is empty.
• After siding: No side deck in Master Duel format (side_count 0); post-game adaptation is not available, so the plan is the same main deck each game.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional starter because 14 searcher-text cards give about 0.90 probability of at least one searcher in an opening 5, although Assault Mode Activate alone is only about 0.34 in hand (Inferred). Conversion is strong when the engine goes live: Activate turns a Synchro material into a high-ATK /Assault Mode boss, with T.G. Halberd Cannon/Assault Mode at 4500 ATK and Junk Warrior/Assault Mode gaining ATK per /Assault Mode monster. Interaction is layered across four hand-traps plus Synchro negations (Stardust Dragon, T.G. Halberd Cannon, Crimson Dragon Quetzalcoatl), which supports the going-second plan. The score is driven by consistency, median output, and interaction on the system; it is not an average of card scores, and Mulcharmy and Maxx "C" are not credited for popularity or usage. Median and floor output are not measured because no combos were supplied, so those scores are text-inferred and pull confidence down.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Assault Mode Activate single-choke enabler (-3); Engine conflict between Synchro sub-archetypes (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 61.9 → 0.80*61.9 + 0.20*55 = 60.5, then modifiers −4 → 57

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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: 14 searcher-text cards give a high chance of a live opening
• Layered interaction: four hand-traps plus Synchro negations cover both turns
• Boss ceiling: /Assault Mode bosses reach 3000–4500 ATK with doubled or board-clearing effects
• Full Extra Deck usage: all 15 Extra slots are Synchros with defined roles

Weaknesses

• Single-card engine: Assault Mode Activate has three copies and no alternative route to the bosses
• Name-stem dependence: /Assault Mode bosses require exact Synchro name matches, which reduces flexibility
• High copy-count on off-engine cards dilutes the main engine
• No side deck and no matchup or win-rate data

Critical choke points

• Assault Mode Activate in hand or GY (≈0.34 in opening 5)
• A live Synchro on the field to tribute, so an early Synchro negation can stall the whole turn
• Searcher access when the opponent has hand-traps on the first searcher

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side in Master Duel size rules; Maxx "C" and One for One are Limited with 1 copy each (legal); Card text: Junk Warrior/Assault Mode gains ATK and doubles battle damage; T.G. Halberd Cannon/Assault Mode is 4500 ATK; Extra Deck composition: 15 Synchro monsters
• Inferred: Opening-5 searcher probability ≈ 0.90; Activate alone ≈ 0.34; Going-second hand-trap probability ≈ 0.49; Engine conflict among Synchro sub-archetypes
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is 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, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied