Darklord Deck #774246 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• 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 large DARK Fairy or Darklord Fusion monster (The First Darklord, Darklord Eveningstar, Luce the Dusk's Dark) off Darklord Dance, Mutiny in the Sky and Gem-Knight Fusion spells, then close with 3000 to 4000 ATK boss monsters.; Gem-Knight Lady Brilliant Diamond and Lady Rose Diamond board presence after a Gem-Knight Fusion or Quartz/Seraphinite line.
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Darklord Contact or Djehuty/Gulgolet line to search and recurse a Darklord, then Banishment of the Darklords for a second searcher and a Fusion Spell into a boss monster.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Herald of Green Light or Buio for a negate on the opponent's first activation, then rebuild through Darklord Gulgolet recursion and the Fusion line. The Herald copies above the limit cannot be run legally.
• Recovery: Gulgolet tokens, Darklord Ixchel and Sanctified Darklord/Rebellion recursion from the GY, and Darklord Morningstar/Gem-Knight Seraphinite as extra Normal Summons to rebuild the board.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs 0 side cards, so no post-side plan exists.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its engine: the Darklord core group has a 94.9% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand and searcher text appears in 22 copies (Inferred, hypergeometric). Its conversion ceiling comes from Fusion Summons into 3000 to 4000 ATK boss monsters, and Gulgolet, Ixchel and the trap recursion cards give some resilience after disruption. The score is not raised by popularity: the archetype is in the usage data and the deck has 3 hand traps, but there are no recorded boards, so the median and ceiling are text-only estimates. Scoring is on the system (consistency, median output, interaction), not by averaging card scores. The deck is Illegal because Herald of Orange Light is run 3 times against a Master Duel limit of 1, and with no side deck it has no post-side plan. Under the rubric's legality rule the score is capped low at 30 and the result is structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); uncapped ≈ 44 after modifiers, then capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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

• Strong searcher density (22 searcher-text copies) with a 94.9% core-group opening hand
• High-ATK Fusion finishers (The First Darklord 4000, Darklord Eveningstar 3000, Luce 3500, Lady Brilliant Diamond 3400)
• Recursion from GY (Gulgolet, Ixchel, Sanctified Darklord, Fallen Angel) gives redundancy after disruption
• Layered interaction: Herald and Buio negations, Sanctified Darklord, Darklord Rebellion, Forbidden Droplet

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Herald of Orange Light run 3 times against a limit of 1
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Only 47.3% exact-name Darklord purity; 29 off-archetype copies weaken engine coherence
• No recorded boards, so median and ceiling are unverified

Critical choke points

• Darklord Contact / Djehuty opening line is needed to start the engine (2 starters)
• Fusion Spells (Darklord Dance, Mutiny in the Sky, Brilliant Fusion) are required to reach the Extra Deck bosses

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Herald of Orange Light run 3 times against a Master Duel limit of 1 (Limited); Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 fall within the Master Duel size rules; Usage stats: Darklord Contact and Djehuty at 100% inclusion; Card stats: The First Darklord 4000/4000, Darklord Eveningstar 3000/3000
• Inferred: Core-group opening-hand probability ≈ 0.95 and searcher density ≈ 0.99 (hypergeometric); Hand-trap availability ≈ 0.39 going second; Interaction and recursion quality read from card text; Combo, closing and interaction estimates are text-based, not recorded
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament data; Tournament reliability: no per-pilot or win-rate telemetry
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) Meta Power is Provisional: no dated metagame sample Deck title is null