Darklord Deck #774281 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 43 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boards built from Darklord recursion: Darklord Eveningstar (3000 ATK), The First Darklord (4000 ATK), Darklord Ixchel (2500 ATK), and Darklord Morningstar (3000 ATK) once Tributed.; Vidolium the Unstable Power Patron of Unity (5000 ATK Pendulum) plus Link and Synchro beaters (Chaos Angel 3500 ATK, A Bao A Qu 2800 ATK).
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Darklord starter (Darklord Djehuty, Darklord Gulgolet or Darklord Ixchel), use Gulgolet/Djehuty to Special Summon the Darklord bodies, and extend into a Link or Fusion board while holding a hand trap for the opponent's first Special Summon.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 10 hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Effect Veiler, Herald of Orange Light, Maxx C, Nibiru) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild from the graveyard through Darklord Contact, Banishment of the Darklords and the Fallen Angel in Darkness / Darklord Rebellion removal chain.
• Recovery: Recover from the graveyard: Gulgolet and Djehuty return Darklord cards to the Deck, Darklord Contact and Ixchel revive Darklord monsters, and Ukoback and Mulcharmy Fuwalos or Purulia draw cards once the hand is empty.
• After siding: Not defined: the deck runs 0 Side Deck cards, so no post-side plan is available in this list (D12 scored low for this reason).

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Darklord starter: nine copies of Djehuty, Gulgolet and Ixchel give about a 71% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred, hypergeometric from the Main Deck only). Its interaction is layered: ten hand traps and several Trap and Spell removal cards cover the first Special Summon, the first activation and the end board. Recursion from the graveyard (Contact, Banishment, Gulgolet, Ixchel) lets it rebuild after one interruption, and its Extra Deck offers several 3000 to 4000 ATK boards. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction across the system, not from averaging card scores, and popularity (archetype usage) did not earn points. Structural power is about 63, pulled down by the absence of any side deck and a roughly 60% off-archetype main deck, and no combo or matchup data exists to lift the floor and ceiling estimates above Provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary; Midrange profile used for scoring. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: No side deck (post-side plan absent) (-3); Off-archetype dilution (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample) = 0.80*63 + 0.20*55 - 5 = 56

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.71 · 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 hand-trap package (10 cards) for the first Special Summon, first activation and going-second interaction
• Graveyard recursion (Contact, Banishment, Gulgolet, Ixchel) gives multiple continuation routes after disruption
• High-ATK Extra Deck finishers (Eveningstar 3000, First Darklord 4000, Chaos Angel 3500, Vidolium 5000)
• Core starter density: nine copies of the three main starters give about 71% to open one

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• About 60% of Main Deck copies are off-archetype, reducing engine coherence
• Many singletons (11) raise the chance of a hand that lacks a specific engine piece
• Core cards Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Herald of Mirage Lights are absent despite high archetype inclusion

Critical choke points

• Djehuty, Gulgolet and Ixchel: the three main starters are the only route to the Darklord engine, and no alternative starter is listed in the Main Deck
• Single copies of the Fusion finishers (The First Darklord) depend on Fusion access through Darklord Dance

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel with restricted copy counts respected (Herald of Orange Light 1, Maxx C 1, The Fallen & The Virtuous 2); Main 43 and Extra 15 counts; Extra Deck breakdown Fusion 4, Link 8, Synchro 2, Xyz 1; Archetype purity 39.7% and hand-trap count 10 from the composition pack; Archetype usage stats: 12 of 21 core cards present (57.1%)
• Inferred: At least one starter in 5 cards about 0.71 (hypergeometric, 9 copies); Going-second hand-trap coverage about 0.82; D1 to D11 and D14 scores are based on card text and composition; Structural about 63 and final about 56, with band plus or minus 6
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample supplied; D13 matchup fit is a neutral 50, unsupported by data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot records are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck count is 0; post-side behaviour cannot be evaluated Deck title is null Usage/composition inconsistency: The First Darklord and Darklord Eveningstar are in the Extra Deck (copies 1 and 2) but usage stats report in_this_deck=false for Eveningstar, so the preprocessor's core-card matching may be wrong