Witchcrafter Deck #774690 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion/Link pressure from Extra Deck boards (Dracotail Arthalion, Dracotail Gulamel, Witchcrafter Vice-Madame, Predaplant Triphyoverutum) after Witchcrafter searchers and Dracotail engine lines put them on board; Interaction-led stalls: hand traps and Forbidden Droplet / Dark Ruler No More clear the opponent's board before a Fusion or Link follow-up
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening starter (Witchcrafter Creation, Dracotail Lukias, Dracotail Faimena, or Verre Magic) searches a Witchcrafter or Dracotail monster, then Fusion Summons from the Extra Deck using hand and field material
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Droll & Lock Bird for the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild with a Witchcrafter monster and a Fusion Summon
• Recovery: Witchcrafter Creation, Witchcrafter Holiday and Witchcrafter Confusion Confession recur from the GY during the End Phase; Witchcrafter Patronus and Dracotail Phryxul return banished or GY targets
• After siding: Best-of-3 is not applicable: side_count is 0 and the Master Duel side zone is unused in this list

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional starter: the 13 searcher-text cards give P(at least one in a 5-card opener) of about 0.84 (Inferred), and the hypergeometric numbers are consistent with that. Its consistency is held back by the mix of Witchcrafter, Dracotail, Endymion, Magistus and generic tech cards, so only 26.7 percent of copies match the exact archetype name. Interaction is layered: eight hand traps, eleven negation-text cards, and Forbidden Droplet and Dark Ruler No More give it a solid end-board and going-second plan. The Extra Deck (fusion and link threats at 2700 to 3000 ATK) supplies closing power once a line resolves. No recorded boards exist, so the combo floor and median are text-only inference. The score comes from consistency, interaction and closing power on the system, not from popularity or from averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Engine conflicts (-3); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(meta-neutral, D13 dropped and renormalized) + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*63 + 0.20*58 - 4 = 58

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.84 · 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

• Searcher density (13 cards) gives high access to the starter
• Layered interaction: 8 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards and multiple board wipes
• Extra Deck is full (15) and flexible across Fusion and Link
• Recursion through Witchcrafter GY spells lowers the cost of a dead opener

Weaknesses

• Multi-archetype build: only 26.7 percent exact-name purity
• Many tech and off-archetype cards (44 off-archetype copies) dilute consistency
• No side deck, so no post-side adjustment data
• Pilot complexity high: several engines need correct sequencing

Critical choke points

• Dracotail Lukias, Rahu Dracotail and Harpie's Feather Duster are Limited at one copy each
• Fusion Summon lines depend on Super Polymerization (2 copies, Semi-Limited) and Dracotail Mululu for material routing

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 45 main, 15 extra, 0 side, all restricted cards within their Master Duel limits; Copy histogram and Extra Deck breakdown (9 Fusion, 6 Link); Card text for every distinct card
• Inferred: Searcher and starter access probabilities; Brick risk and interaction layering; Going-first and going-second reads; Closing power from Extra Deck stats
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample); Side deck adaptability (no side); Median combo output (no combo boards)
• 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/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample usage_statistics.missing_core lists Dracotail Arthalion, Dracotail Gulamel, Witchcrafter Vice-Madame and other Extra Deck cards as not in the deck, but they appear in cards[] with copies 1-2; core_present_pct (52) is unreliable for this list archetype_core_group figure (copies_in_deck 20, 0.9565) mixes archetypes and is not a single-archetype starter probability