ZEXAL Deck #774697 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 39/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Fusion/Link
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion, Link and Synchro bosses: Dragon that Devours the Dogma (Fallen of Albaz + Chain Material), Earthbound Servant Geo Kraken (two Earthbound monsters), Horned Saurus (Kaitoptera), Saryuja and Worldsea Dragon Zealantis as Link bosses; Level 4 Xyz Number 60 Dugares from Level 3/4 Warriors; direct attacks from the Bamboo Swords
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Marauding Captain or Goblindbergh to Special Summon a second Level 4 or lower monster from hand, then Zexal Construction or Magical Mallet to fill the gap
• Turn 2 (going second): Chain Material plus Fallen of Albaz or Kaitoptera into a Fusion boss, using Rescue Ferret or Squeaknight as the only interaction
• Recovery: Earthbound Line Walker and Phantom Knights Cloak banish from the GY to search; Blackwing Zephyros recurs from the GY
• After siding: No side deck (0 cards); Master Duel is single-game, so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The score is set by the deck as a system, not by averaging card scores. Twenty-four copies of eight staples (Marauding Captain, Goblindbergh, Sublimation Knight, Neo Space Connector, Armageddon Knight, Chain Material, Zexal Construction, Magical Mallet) give about a 69% chance of at least one Level 3 or 4 starter in a 5-card opening hand and about 84% of at least one searcher or core card, so the deck usually opens functional. Those openings then run into a fragmented body: 32 singleton slots spread across roughly nine sub-archetypes, with exact-name archetype purity of 6.7%. Several lines have no enabler at all, including the Xyz half of Phantom Knights' Rank-Up-Magic Requiem (no DARK Xyz), Odd-Eyes Arcray and Supreme King Z-ARC (no Pendulum support), and Selene (only one Endymion main-deck card). Fusion through Chain Material, Polymerization and Fusion Gate into Fallen of Albaz or Kaitoptera bosses gives a real ceiling, but there are no recorded boards to measure its median. Interaction is limited to negation and removal text on about a dozen single cards, with zero hand traps and zero floodgates, which weakens the going-second score. Popularity and meta-share earned no points because the export has no tournament link.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 44, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: multi-archetype incoherence (-5); dead Extra Deck and Requiem lines (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*47 + 0.20*45 - 8 = 38.6, rounded to 39

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.69 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.16 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Twenty-four copies of eight staples give about 84% searcher/core access in a 5-card hand
• Chain Material x3 provides Fusion without Polymerization
• Several Fusion and Link routes give real board-ending ceilings (Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Geo Kraken, Saryuja)
• Legal: 60/15/0 with Reinforcement of the Army at its single legal copy

Weaknesses

• Exact-name archetype purity 6.7% across about nine sub-archetypes
• Dead or enabler-less lines: Requiem Xyz half, Odd-Eyes Arcray, Supreme King Z-ARC, Selene without Endymion
• 32 singleton slots dilute opening hands and make the deck hard to pilot
• No hand traps or floodgates to protect the starter line
• Going-second plan rests on one-card interaction

Critical choke points

• Fusion boss access depends on three Chain Material plus Polymerization and Fusion Gate, with few other enablers
• Early Normal Summon line (Captain, Goblindbergh, Connector) has no protection against hand or board interruption
• Endymion support is one Verre in the Main Deck for three Selene

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 60 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, Legal; Reinforcement of the Army at 1 of 1 legal copy; Composition: 32 singletons, 2 two-of, 8 three-of; 8 Link, 5 Fusion, 1 Synchro, 1 Xyz in Extra; Zero hand traps and zero floodgates in the role tags
• Observed: Usage stats show 14 of 25 core cards present (56%)
• Inferred: Starter access of 0.69 and searcher/core access of 0.84 from hypergeometric draws; Brick rate about 0.16 from the no-core-card proxy; Going-first and going-second scores from card text, with no recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; Matchup and format fit (D13): no tournament link
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference usage_statistics flags Selene, Magistus Chorozo, Horned Saurus and other Extra Deck cards as in_this_deck false, but the card list shows them in the Extra Deck with copies 1 or 3; likely a zone-scoped export bug, so core_present_pct (56%) is unreliable no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null; deck identity is inferred from the card list