Darklord Deck #774347 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fairy-based Darklord board converting into 3000-4000 ATK Fusion and Link bosses (Darklord Eveningstar, Darklord Morningstar, The First Darklord) and Vidolium at 5000 ATK; Power Patron Link and Pendulum pressure via Vidolium and Purification Power Patron, with Darklord Ixchel and Tezcatlipoca as recursion-backed beaters
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Darklord Djehuty, Dawn Angel Kambi or Darklord Gulgolet to reach Darklord tokens and Defense-position Darklords, then extend with Banishment of the Darklords or Darklord Contact to recover a Darklord and build toward a Fusion or Link boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Herald of Orange Light and Forbidden Droplet or Forbidden Crown to interrupt the opponent, then rebuild the Darklord board from the GY
• Recovery: Recycle Darklord Spells and Traps from the GY via Darklord Tezcatlipoca and Darklord Ixchel (paying LP), and use Condemned Darklord to take a Darklord from the Deck back into hand or GY
• After siding: No sideboard is supplied (side_count 0). Master Duel side zone is available up to 15 cards, so any post-side plan is currently unrated and unverified

Why it scores here

The deck is scored on its system: a Darklord engine that reliably opens (about 0.98 chance of at least one core Darklord in a 5-card opening hand, a proxy estimate) and converts through Fairy-based summons, GY recursion and Fusion/Link bosses. Interaction is dense for a midrange list, with seven hand traps and several spell or trap negates, which lifts end-board and going-second board breaking. Median output is not verified because no recorded boards exist, so the floor and median are inferred from card text alone and kept below the text-based ceiling. Deck-building cost is real: roughly 40% exact-archetype purity across about nine related archetypes creates engine conflicts and lowers main deck efficiency and pilotability. Popularity and usage stats confirm the list is real and accessible but did not add points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: engine_conflicts (-2); interaction_breadth (2); banlist_exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*63 + 0.20*58 = 62.0, then modifiers -1 = 61

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (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 and negate suite for going second
• Multiple recursion routes from GY and deck
• Strong Fusion and Link boss density at 3000-5000 ATK
• Core Darklord starters are multi-copy and reliably open

Weaknesses

• Nine-plus splash archetypes dilute engine coherence
• Seven hand traps can brick without an interaction target
• No sideboard supplied
• LP-costed recursion effects reduce resources over long games

Critical choke points

• Darklord Djehuty and Gulgolet access is the main early engine route; no alternative starter covers an opening hand without a Darklord
• Banishment and Contact recovery depend on Darklord monsters being in GY or on field

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 42, Extra 15, legal under master-duel size and copy limits; Banlist statuses: Maxx C, Herald of Orange Light, Crossout Designator Limited; Droll and Fallen & Virtuous Semi-Limited at two copies; Archetype usage: 22 core rows, 13 of 21 core cards present
• Observed: Exact-name archetype purity 40.4%; Extra Deck breakdown 8 Link, 5 Fusion, 1 Synchro, 1 Xyz
• Inferred: Opening-hand estimates from hypergeometric draw table; Engine ceiling and interaction density from card text; Brick and going-second interaction estimates
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Post-side plan (no sideboard supplied)
• 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; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck supplied; post-side plan is unrated