Charmer Deck #773780 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 49/100 (±7 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Charmer fusions (Charmers of the Grand Circle, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction) and flip-steal monsters converting into board advantage; Magistus fusion/link boards and Dark Magician / Shining Sarcophagus recursion
• Turn 1 (going first): Spellbook of Secrets or Spellbook of the Grand Circle to search Charmers, Familiar-Possessed - Lyna and Awakening of the Possessed to build a Fusion-ready board
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird or Maxx C to interrupt, then rebuild through Spellbook and Charmer searchers into a fusion
• Recovery: Spellbook of the Grand Circle banish-from-GY Fusion and Spellbook Magician of Prophecy search, plus Charmer/Magistus searchers from Deck and GY
• After siding: No side deck is run; there is no post-side plan in Master Duel, so adaptation relies on in-game searchers only

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a searcher line: 20 searcher-text cards give roughly a 97% chance of at least one in an opening five, and the 19 Charmer core cards give roughly 97% at least one in hand, so the engine usually becomes live on turns one and two. Its interaction is layered across three Ash Blossom, two Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, two Forbidden Droplet, Crossout Designator and Spenta, which gives it a real chance to answer a turn-one or turn-two play. Conversion is the weak point: the deck splits across Charmer, Spellbook, Magistus, Dark Magician, Shining Sarcophagus and Timaeus with 16 singleton slots and only 16.4% exact-archetype purity, so several lines need a specific sub-engine piece that may not be present. Popularity and archetype usage data confirm the list is a real, accessible build, but they did not add points; the score comes from consistency, interaction and resilience measured on the system, not from averaging the 40 card scores. No combo boards are recorded, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences and the score carries a wide band.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-4); weak post-side plan (-2); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(57.3) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(52) = 56.3, then context modifiers total -7 = 49 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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

• Dense searcher density (20 searcher-text cards) gives near-certain access to a live engine on turns one and two
• Layered interaction: three Ash Blossom, two Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C and Forbidden Droplet cover both going-first and going-second turns
• Extra Deck carries high-ATK bosses (Dark Magician of Destruction, Zoroa Verethragna, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon) for closing power

Weaknesses

• Fragmented engine: three or more sub-archetypes with 16 singletons and 16.4% exact purity
• Several single-copy conditional pieces (Awakening, Gaze of Timaeus, Possessed Partnerships, Crossout) that brick or underperform outside their exact board
• No side deck and no recorded combo boards, so post-game adaptation and ceiling cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• Lines that need a specific sub-archetype piece (Shining Sarcophagus, Magistus) may fail when that single card is not drawn
• Charmer flip-steal monsters are single copies that depend on being flipped, so a hand trap on the flip can strand the board

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within size rules; restricted cards within copy limits; Archetype purity 16.4% exact name, spread across Charmer, Magistus, Spellbook and others; Copy histogram and extra-deck breakdown (8 fusion, 6 link, 1 synchro)
• Observed: Usage statistics show Charmer core cards at 100% inclusion across the archetype's decks
• Inferred: Searcher and Charmer-core access probabilities (~97%) from hypergeometric draws; Interaction density and going-second value from card text; Structural 57 and final 49 from the weighted rubric
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13) absent 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 record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Usage-statistics in this deck flags disagree with the card list for several Extra Deck cards (e.g. Charmers of the Grand Circle, Invoked Caliga, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon); the card list was trusted Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied