Blue-Eyes Deck #774242 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 23/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Blind-Second/OTK
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 0 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Blue-Eyes White Dragon (3 copies) as the only real attacker, with Exodia the Forbidden One plus four Limited Exodia pieces as a five-card lottery win; Exodia the Obliterator as a single-copy follow-up if the hand already holds Exodia pieces
• Turn 1 (going first): Draw-heavy turn 1 (Shard of Greed, Upstart Goblin, Trade-In or Royal Magical Library) to find a Level 8 Blue-Eyes; no reliable board on turn 1
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Double Summon and the White Stone of Legend searcher only if a Level 8 is already in hand; otherwise rely on draw spells to dig
• Recovery: Dark Factory of Mass Production and Magical Stone Excavation recover Normal Monsters and Spells from the GY, and White Stone of Legend returns a Blue-Eyes from the Deck
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs no side deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is legal (41 main cards, no Extra Deck, no side deck, and only the Limited Exodia pieces and One Day of Peace exceed a single copy) but it does not form a functional system. Its only reliable attacker is Blue-Eyes White Dragon, which at three copies gives roughly a 33 percent chance of at least one in an opening five-card hand, so the engine is often absent on turn 1 and 2. Twenty-seven of 41 cards are Spells, mostly draw or search effects with no board presence, which drives a high brick rate in hands. The Exodia component needs five specific cards and only has a near-zero chance of completing without heavy draw luck. Score comes from draw-and-search resource economy and the pilot-friendly line, not from averaging card scores or from the popularity of the Blue-Eyes name; archetype purity is 12.2 percent and no core archetype cards are present.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 28.7, Going First ≈ 30, Going Second ≈ 28, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-3); unrecoverable choke point (-2); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*28.7 + 0.20*30 - 6 = 22.9, rounded to 23

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.33 · 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 draw and search package (Shard of Greed, Upstart Goblin, Royal Magical Library, Trade-In, Golden Bamboo Sword, Dark Factory of Mass Production, Magical Stone Excavation)
• Legal list with no banned cards and no copy-limit violations
• Blue-Eyes White Dragon at 3000 ATK gives a real closing threat when it lands

Weaknesses

• Only three attackers (Blue-Eyes White Dragon x3), so the board is thin after the first summon
• 27 Spells against 14 monsters, so hands regularly lack a body or a Level 8
• Zero Extra Deck cards: no Blue-Eyes Ultimate, Tyrant or Stardust coverage, and none of the 25 usage-stat core cards are present
• Exodia component depends on five specific Limited cards and is effectively a lottery
• No hand traps or floodgates and no side deck to adapt

Critical choke points

• The Level 8 Blue-Eyes White Dragon: three copies, roughly one-in-three to find in an opening five
• The five Exodia cards for the Exodia win, which almost never all arrive together

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 41 cards, 0 Extra, 0 Side; legal under master-duel size rules (40-60 main); Limited banlist status and copy counts for Exodia pieces and One Day of Peace; Usage stats: 0 of 25 core cards present; exact archetype purity 12.2 percent
• Inferred: Starter probability about 0.33 for Blue-Eyes White Dragon in a 5-card hand; Brick risk from 27 Spells against 14 monsters; Exodia completion effectively negligible; Floor and median output are low given the draw-heavy list
• Provisional: Format fit and matchup coverage, because there is no dated meta sample or tournament link
• 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 exists in YGOVN, so going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck: post-side performance is unmeasured and D12 is Inferred from composition only