Fur Hire Deck #774349 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 46 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boards from Fur Hire and K9 Xyz/Link monsters (K9-X Werewolf, K9-66X Jacks, Rafale, Folgo, Donner) converting into attacks and removal.; Mulcharmy draw-punishment lock: Fuwalos and Purulia draw on opponent Summons and End Phase hand-size pressure, when the board is empty.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Rex, Freight Fur Hire (summon trigger adds a Fur Hire Spell/Trap) or a Fur Hire starter that Special Summons another Fur Hire from hand (Beat, Seal, Donpa), then chain into a Link or Xyz Summon from the Extra Deck.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird and Maxx C to answer the opponent's first Summon or activation, then rebuild with Rex, Ride Fur Hire (hand Special Summon) and the K9 Xyz line.
• Recovery: Recover through GY effects: Rex, Freight and Donpa/Seal-style summons from the GY and Mayhem Fur Hire, plus K9-X Forced Release and Donner's Tribute summon to rebuild the Extra Deck board.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0). Post-side adaptation is not evaluable from this list.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its card scores. Its Fur Hire core (17 Main Deck copies across Rex, Beat, Seal, Donpa and Fandora-style searchers) gives a likely searcher or Special Summon starter, with about a 94% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred, from the hypergeometric estimate). Nine hand traps and about 11 removal or negation texts give it real interaction, especially going second, where at least one hand trap is in the 6-card hand about 75% of the time (Inferred). Its Extra Deck of 15 cards, mostly Link and Xyz boards that reach 2,400 to 3,300 ATK, gives it closing power once a board is established. It does not get credit for popularity: the archetype is partly represented but the list is not a pure Fur Hire build, and there is no tournament or win-rate evidence. The score is held back by the split across three sub-archetypes (Fur Hire, K9 and Mulcharmy), the conditional Mulcharmy cards that brick without an existing board, and the absence of a side deck and recorded combos.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 70, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Engine split across sub-archetypes (-2); Conditional brick dependency (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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

• Multiple Fur Hire starters with high searcher density (19 searcher-text cards)
• Nine hand traps and eleven removal or negation effects give layered interaction
• Full 15-card Extra Deck with strong Link and Xyz boss monsters (Werewolf 3300, Jacks 2600, Rafale 2800)
• Legal list with all three restricted cards at legal copy counts

Weaknesses

• Three sub-archetypes (Fur Hire, K9, Mulcharmy) dilute engine coherence, with exact-name purity of 34.4%
• Mulcharmy copies are conditional and can brick when the board is empty
• No side deck, so post-side adaptation is unavailable
• No recorded combos, tournament data or win-rate telemetry to check the ceiling against actual play

Critical choke points

• The Fur Hire starter density relies on a few 3-copy starters (Rex, Freight and Rex, Ride); each has about a 0.30 chance in a 5-card opening hand
• Extra Deck summon routes (K9 Xyz and Fur Hire Link) depend on having Level 5 monsters or Link material on the field

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 46 Main and 15 Extra, within size rules, no violations (BanMasterDuel); Restricted copies: Maxx C 1 of 1, Droll & Lock Bird 2 of 2, K9-66a Jokul 2 of 2 (all legal); Copy histogram 1:11, 2:4, 3:9 sums to 46 Main Deck cards; Archetype purity 34.4% (21 exact Fur Hire copies)
• Observed: No recorded boards, so no combo frequencies are observed (combos_evidence total 0)
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher in 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.94; Hand trap in 6-card going-second hand ≈ 0.75; Engine conversion from card text (Rex, Beat, Seal, Donpa, Werewolf, Jacks, Rafale); Mulcharmy brick risk from conditional text
• Provisional: Meta-neutral D13 at 50 with no tournament or dated metagame sample; Side deck adaptability (no side deck registered); Tournament reliability derived from opening-hand, resilience and grind dimensions
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional with no dated metagame sample usage_statistics in_this_deck flags appear to ignore Extra Deck copies: Donner, K9-17 Ripper, K9-66X Jacks, Folgo, Keel, Spright Elf, S:P Little Knight, Vallon and Salamangreat Almiraj are present in the Extra Deck list but flagged in_this_deck false. Recomputed by card_id, 22 of 25 core cards are present (not 13), so core_present_pct 52 is an undercount; treated as a data defect, not a deck fact Deck title is null