Power Patron Deck #773841 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Level 10 / Power Patron boards (Jupiter, Nerva, Gustav Max, Varudras, Mercurium) and Vidolium at 5000 ATK, reached through Pendulum-monster searches and Power Patron Portal / Plane searches; Fusion, Link and Xyz follow-ups (Magistus Chorozo, Predaplant, Artmage Non-Finito, Exceed the Pendulum, Charmer Quartet) once the Pendulum base is online
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Medius, Junoldo, Vidolium, Shade, Portal or Plane), add a Power Patron body, then extend into a Level 10 Xyz or Fusion while holding Impermanence or Ash for the first opposing response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 7 hand-trap and negate cards (Ash, Impermanence, Dominus Impulse, Maxx C, Nervedo, Vodnika, Artmage Impasto) to stop the opponent's Special Summon, then rebuild a Power Patron board from the Pendulum Zone and Extra Deck
• Recovery: Re-search Pendulum monsters through Medius, Junoldo, Vidolium and Shade; recycle Power Patron bodies from the GY through Vidolium's Special Summon option and Vodnika
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs 0 side-deck cards, so there is no post-side plan in the list

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a searcher: 20 searcher-text cards give P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.98, and the 9 triple-copy cards plus 2-copy Medius and Junoldo give redundant Pendulum and Power Patron bodies. The Extra Deck is flexible across Link, Fusion, Xyz and Synchro, with several Level 10 Xyz and Fusion options that can close a board, and Vidolium gives a 5000 ATK finisher. Interaction is dense (17 negation-text cards and 7 hand-trap-flagged cards, with P(at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand) of about 0.71), which is why defensive power carries the score. The score does not come from averaging card scores, from Power Patron being a popular archetype, or from usage statistics; no recorded boards or win rates exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based inferences. Exact-name purity is only 18%, the deck has no side deck, and its line depends on the Pendulum base, which keeps the score in the upper 50s.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62.4, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Off-archetype and sub-archetype spread (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*62.4 + 0.20*58 = 61.5, then modifiers -4 = 57.5, rounded to 58

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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

• Redundant searchers: 20 cards that search or add Pendulum and Power Patron monsters, with P(at least one in hand) about 0.98
• Dense interaction: 17 negation-text cards and 7 hand-trap-flagged cards, with a 0.71 chance of a hand trap in a going-second hand
• Flexible Extra Deck: 15 distinct cards across Link, Fusion, Xyz and Synchro
• High closing ceiling: Vidolium at 5000 ATK and Level 10 Xyz bosses at 3000 to 3500 ATK
• Legal list: Maxx C is at its Limited cap (1 copy), and every other card is Unlimited

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adjustment
• Low exact-name purity (18%); a large off-archetype share lowers consistency across the Pendulum base
• Pendulum-heavy opening hands can be dead without a searcher or a Pendulum Zone setup
• Tech and off-archetype cards (Go! D/D/D, Triple Tactics Talent, Vodnika, Plundered Plane) add more decisions than the engine needs
• No measured win rate, combo floor or matchup data, so the score rests on inference

Critical choke points

• Pendulum Zone setup: most searchers and Pendulum bodies need it live, so a dead Pendulum Zone stalls the start
• Single Level 10 Extra Deck route: several finishers share the same Level 10 material requirement, so losing the Xyz base removes most closes

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal list: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; within the Master Duel size rules; Maxx C is Limited, run at 1 copy, which is its legal cap; All other restricted cards are Unlimited; Card stats and text from the resolved card list; Composition: 19 distinct main, 15 distinct Extra Deck, copy histogram 7x1 / 3x2 / 9x3 (matches the card list)
• Observed: Usage stats: 26 archetype stat rows; the core inclusion values are recorded but describe the archetype, not this deck's play
• Inferred: P(starter in opening hand) and P(hand trap in going-second hand) from hypergeometric calculations; Ceiling and interaction reads from card text; Going-first and going-second power estimates; Vidolium and Level 10 Xyz closes as the main win conditions
• Provisional: Meta Power (null; no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13); Side deck value (D12) with no post-side data; Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: the floor, median and ceiling of the combo line are text-based inference only Usage-stat conflict: 6 core cards are marked in_this_deck=false (Junora, Jupiter, Nerva, Varudras, Mercurium, Charmer, Beyond), yet all of them appear in the resolved card list as extra-deck copies. This needs a check in the evidence builder; the card list was treated as the source of truth Hand-trap count conflict: role_tag_counts reports 7 hand traps, but only 3 cards carry is_hand_trap=true in the card list. The probability for the 7-card group uses the 7 figure, so it may be overstated Archetype parsing artifact: Shade the Obscure has archetype "| supports_archetypes Power Patron", which shows a text-parsing problem in the export No tournament link, so no meta share or per-pilot match record No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Guide evidence is one snippet with no sections, so it is a weak source for the strategy No side deck, so no post-side evidence