Blue-Eyes Deck #774358 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Blue-Eyes boss monsters (Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon, Blue-Eyes Tyrant Dragon, Cosmic Blazar Dragon, Blue-Eyes White Dragon) reached through Synchro, Fusion and Normal-Summon lines, protected by hand traps; Primite Imperial Dragon and Primite Dragon Ether Beryl as a splash-driven beatdown and negation line
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Sage with Eyes of Blue or Maiden of White, search a Tuner, and build toward a Synchro boss while holding Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Effect Veiler against the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Maxx "C" and Infinite Impermanence to blank the opponent's board-building turn, then convert with Synchro or Fusion bosses
• Recovery: Search through Wishes for Eyes of Blue, Primite Fusion and the Sage/Maiden loop to rebuild Tuners, and use Mausoleum of White and Roar of the Blue-Eyed Dragons to restart the Blue-Eyes board after a negate or banish
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel is a single game with no side deck (side_count 0)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: 29 Blue-Eyes-core copies give a near-certain hand presence (P ≥ 0.999 for at least one core card in a 5-card opening, Inferred), and 13 searcher-text cards push P(at least one searcher in hand) to about 0.88. Its real weakness is the starter chain: each 3-copy Tuner has only about a 0.34 chance of appearing in a 5-card opener, and the two Blue-Eyes White Dragons (the key Normal-Summon bodies) are about 0.24, so the deck leans on redundancy rather than a single reliable first turn. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: about 14 hand traps and 16 removal or negate texts give multi-layer answers to the opponent's first turn and their board, and the going-second hand-trap chance is about 0.94. Conversion is inferred from card text only, since no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling (Synchro and Fusion bosses) and median output are estimates. Popularity and archetype usage stats confirm the list is real and accessible but did not add points by themselves, and the score was not produced by averaging card scores. Off-archetype splash (Primite, Bystial, Dominus) lowers exact-name purity to 23.6% and is applied as a modest engine-conflict penalty.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Stun secondary (approx. 80/20 in interpretation only; the weight vector is Midrange). Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); engine conflict (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural 64.25, TR 62, modifiers −3)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Core Blue-Eyes density gives near-certain hand presence
• Layered hand-trap and negate coverage on both going-first and going-second turns
• Redundant searchers and Tuner-recursion loops keep lines alive

Weaknesses

• Low single-copy probability for the 3-copy Tuner starters and 2-copy BEWD
• Off-archetype Primite/Bystial/Dominus splash lowers engine coherence
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Tuner availability for Synchro summons (Sage, Maiden, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre)
• Blue-Eyes White Dragon count for Normal-Summon and Fusion/Ultimate routes

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Legal in Master Duel with 40 Main and 15 Extra cards; Bystial Magnamhut and Maxx "C" are Limited at 1 copy each; Droll & Lock Bird is Semi-Limited at 2 copies; Archetype usage shows 61–90% inclusion for core Blue-Eyes cards
• Observed: No combo boards recorded; the combo section is empty
• Inferred: P(≥1 core Blue-Eyes card in 5-card opener) ≈ 0.999; Starter reliability is about 0.34 for 3-copy Tuners and about 0.24 for 2-copy BEWD; Going-second hand-trap coverage ≈ 0.94; Combo ceiling and median are estimated from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and side adaptability are provisional
• 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, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied