Darklord Deck #773910 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Darklord Fusion bosses (First Darklord 4000 ATK, Eveningstar 3000 ATK) and Vidolium 5000 ATK, reached through Darklord Dance and Fairy-based Special Summons; Link and Fusion follow-ups (Condemned Darklord, Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Secreterion Dragon) once the board is cleared by Darklord Rebellion or Crossout Designator
• Turn 1 (going first): Djehuty or Gulgolet (or Ixchel) on T1 with a searcher (Banishment or Gulgolet) to set up Darklord Dance into a Fusion boss, while holding Ash Blossom or Maxx C for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand trap (Ash, Herald of Orange Light, Maxx C) or Dominus Impulse to interrupt the first Special Summon, then recover through Darklord Contact and Gulgolet's GY effect
• Recovery: Darklord Contact from the GY, Gulgolet's GY search, and Ixchel's shuffle of GY Darklord Spell/Trap back into the Deck
• After siding: Not applicable: the Master Duel export has no side deck (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan to score

Why it scores here

The 56 comes from the deck as a system: an engine that comes online often (about 74% of going-first openings hold one of nine Djehuty, Gulgolet or Ixchel copies, and about 90% hold a searcher), dense interaction (five hand-trap copies, three Forbidden Droplet, three Dominus Impulse, plus removal and negation spells), and recursion through Darklord Contact, Gulgolet and Ixchel. Closing power is strong on paper, with 3000-5000 ATK bosses, but no recorded boards exist, so conversion and median output are inferred and kept deliberately moderate. The score is pulled down by only 41.8% exact-archetype purity, a second Power Patron sub-engine, and off-archetype tech that dilutes the core, and by a wide uncertainty band because there is no combo, side or dated meta data. Popularity and archetype usage stats confirm the list is standard and accessible but earned no points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 59. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*63.1 + 0.20*59 - 6 = 56.3

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.74 · 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

• Engine density: nine Djehuty/Gulgolet/Ixchel copies plus 14 searcher-text copies make the engine reachable on most openings
• Interaction breadth: hand traps, Droplet, Dominus Impulse, Sanctified Darklord, Rebellion and Crossout cover negation and removal on both turns
• Recursion: Contact, Gulgolet and Ixchel recover the engine from the GY after disruption
• Closing power: multiple 3000-5000 ATK bosses across Fusion and Pendulum lines

Weaknesses

• Only 41.8% exact-archetype purity: 32 off-archetype copies (Power Patron, Forbidden, Dominus, Mulcharmy, Herald) dilute the core
• Mulcharmy Fuwalos x3 is conditional on an empty field, a weak card in a deck that wants to keep cards
• Single-copy Limited cards (Maxx C, Herald, Crossout) are high-impact but cannot be replaced if they are not drawn
• No combo, side or dated meta data, so floor and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Opening hand needs one of the nine Djehuty/Gulgolet/Ixchel copies or a searcher; roughly one opening in four has neither (P(no searcher) 0.10 and P(no starter) 0.26 are the components)
• Darklord Dance is the only Fusion access route for most bosses; without it the Extra Deck is largely dead
• Fairy-only Special Summon restrictions from Djehuty and Gulgolet can block follow-up Fairy Fusions after the first summon

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under BanMasterDuel with 40 main, 15 extra and 0 side cards; Limited and Semi-Limited copies are at their legal maximum; Copy histogram, type spread, Extra Deck breakdown (10 Fusion, 5 Link) and purity (41.8%) computed from the card list; Stats and text tags for the listed bosses and hand traps; The usage statistics missing core cards list is contradicted by the card list: The First Darklord, Condemned Darklord, Rahamu, Herald of Mirage Lights and Protector of The Agents - Moon are all in the Extra Deck (in this deck flags only the Main Deck), so core coverage on the list is 19 of 19, not 14 of 19
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter (~0.74), searcher (0.90) and hand-trap (0.58 going second) access; Floor, median and ceiling read from card text, since no boards were recorded; Interaction quality and recursion routes from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and the meta-neutral D13 exclusion (no dated sample); Post-side plan (no side deck in Master Duel export)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference (combo data.total combos = 0) No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent usage statistics.in this deck appears to check the Main Deck only; five Extra Deck core cards are flagged missing although they are present in the list. The export should be corrected before core coverage is used for ranking No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first, going-second and matchup signals are Inferred No side deck in the Master Duel export, so D12 and any post-side plan are unmeasurable Guides are snippets only (section_count 0), so strategic intent is partly inferred