Darklord Deck #773797 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a 3000-4000 ATK Darklord or Gem-Knight boss (The First Darklord, Darklord Eveningstar, Luce the Dusk's Dark) off the Extra Deck, enabled by Darklord GY recursion and Fairy/Fiend material; Gem-Knight Lady Brilliant Diamond and Gem-Knight Lady Rose Diamond boards, with Duke of Demise and Aerial Eater as additional Fusion finishers
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Darklord Djehuty or Indulged Darklord, search or Special Summon a second Darklord through Banishment of the Darklords, Darklord Gulgolet or Darklord Morningstar, then convert into a Fusion (Darklord Dance or Brilliant Fusion) if the board allows
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with the hand traps (Herald of Orange Light, Herald of Green Light, Buio the Dawn's Light) to answer the opponent's first monster or Spell, then rebuild through Darklord GY effects and Fusion
• Recovery: Recover from the GY with Darklord Contact, Darklord Gulgolet and Darklord Morningstar effects, Fallen Angel in Darkness, and Gem-Knight Hollowcore's GY ability
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no side deck and Master Duel is a single game per match

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an archetype starter: the archetype core group has a 0.95 chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and 22 searcher-text cards support that access (Inferred from hypergeometric estimates). Conversion into a Fusion boss is the strength, since the Extra Deck carries 15 Fusion monsters with 3000-4000 ATK finishers and the Darklord GY recursion gives a second wave. Interaction is real but narrow: three hand traps and a few field removal/negation cards cover the common answers, and the Limited Herald copy problem means the list cannot be played as built. Score is not earned from Darklord's popularity or from averaging card scores; no combo boards were recorded, so the ceiling and median rely on text-only inference. Because the deck is Illegal, the score is capped at 35 and the evaluation is structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 61.75, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); unrecoverable choke point (0); dependence on one Extra-Deck card (0). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*61.75 + 0.20*52 + (-8 banlist modifier) ≈ 52; capped at 35 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power is provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core access is high (about 0.95 for at least one core card in an opener)
• Fusion Extra Deck gives multiple 3000-4000 ATK finishers
• Darklord GY recursion gives a second wave after the first board is broken
• Three hand traps plus field negation give several answer types

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: three copies of Herald of Orange Light against a Limited limit of one
• Low archetype purity (47.3%); 29 of 40 main copies are off-archetype or generic
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combo boards, so ceiling and median are text-only

Critical choke points

• Herald of Orange Light copies must be reduced to one before the list is legal
• Fusion access depends on the Extra Deck and on Darklord or Gem-Knight material being in hand or in the GY

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Herald of Orange Light is Limited with 1 legal copy and 3 copies in the deck (Illegal); Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within Master Duel size rules; Extra Deck is 15 Fusion monsters across 9 distinct cards; Exact-archetype purity is 47.3%
• Inferred: Archetype core access ≈ 0.95 for at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand; Going-first and going-second plans; Interaction coverage from card text; Structural score 61.75 and capped final score 35
• Provisional: Median output (no combo boards); Matchup and format fit (no tournament or meta data); Meta Power (null)
• 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: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck is Illegal as built, so the evaluation is theoretical/structural-only