D/D/D Deck #773817 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Control, Stun
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss summons (Link, XYZ, Synchro, Fusion) built off a D/D Pendulum and Dark Contract engine, with large 3000+ ATK bosses such as Kali Yuga, Arc Crisis, Bright Armageddon and Deus Machinex closing the game; Recursion of D/D monsters from the Graveyard through Necro Slime, Swirl Slime, Lance Soldier and the Caesar XYZ, plus Dark Contract standby damage as chip pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a D/D Pendulum or Dark Contract with the Gate, set the Pendulum zones, and use Pendulum and Extra Deck summons to reach a board before the opponent can respond
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C) to answer the first summon or search, then rebuild through the Extra Deck boss
• Recovery: Recover from disruption through Graveyard D/D monsters (Necro Slime, Swirl Slime, Lance Soldier) and banish-or-GY special summons from the Dark Contract and Caesar lines
• After siding: No sideboard in this list (side 0). Master Duel has no side deck, so there is no post-side plan; the deck relies on its main-deck hand traps for all adaptation

Why it scores here

The deck scores on the system, not on its cards: a 40-card D/D/D list with three copies each of its key starters (Kepler, Machinex, Gryphon, Dark Contract with the Gate, Ash Blossom) gives roughly a 34% chance of at least one specific starter in a going-first 5-card hand and about 78% for at least one searcher among the 10 searcher-text cards. Nine hand-trap or negation cards (Ash, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Droll, Maxx C) give about an 81% chance of at least one hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand, which is what keeps the deck's interaction and going-second plan credible. The Extra Deck carries strong closing bosses (Kali Yuga 3500 ATK, Bright Armageddon 3500, Arc Crisis 4000, Deus Machinex 3000), and the list runs no combo recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-based inference only and were not scored from measured output. Popularity and the Vietnamese guides confirm the archetype is played but did not add points, and the card scores were not averaged. The main caps are the lack of recorded boards, the Pendulum and Dark Contract self-damage cost, and the absence of any side plan in this format.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: engine compactness (2); no post-side plan (-2); self-damage burden (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural uses the Combo profile with D13 dropped and the remaining weights renormalized to 97

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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

• Three-copy starters and Dark Contract searchers give redundancy into the Extra Deck
• Nine hand traps and 12 negation-text cards cover both turns
• Strong Extra Deck closers with 3000+ ATK and field-negating effects
• Compact 40-card main with a clear D/D core

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median are unmeasured
• Self-damage from Dark Contract effects adds cost across long games
• No sideboard in this format, so no post-side plan
• Several off-archetype lines (Mulcharmy, Dominus, Maxx C) dilute the engine
• Pilot complexity is high with Pendulum and multi-step Extra Deck chains

Critical choke points

• Pendulum summon access through Kepler, Machinex and Gryphon, which the list runs three of each
• Dark Contract with the Gate as the main searcher
• Extra Deck boss reach through the Graveyard recursion cards

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0, all cards legal under the Master Duel ban field; Limited and Semi-Limited cards (Crossout Designator, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird) are at or under their legal copy limits; Card text for all 40 Main and 15 Extra cards from the card source
• Observed: Archetype usage shows 14 of 25 core cards present in this list
• Inferred: Hypergeometric consistency: starter 34%, searcher 78%, hand trap 81% going second; Structural and interaction scores from card text; Going-first and going-second power from dimension blends; Graveyard recursion and Extra Deck boss reach from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13); Tournament reliability weighting
• 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 for going first/second, matchup, brick, or starter rates usage statistics in this deck flags conflict with the cards list for Extra Deck cards (e.g., Gilgamesh, Zeus, Kali Yuga, Caesar listed with copies in cards but in this deck false in core/missing core cards); treated as a join defect and not used to read deviation from the archetype core deck title is null Master Duel has no sideboard, so D12 measures a format constraint as well as the list Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied