D.D. Deck #774700 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 38/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Control
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Ritual
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Black Luster Soldier (3000 ATK) Ritual Summoned with Black Luster Ritual; the deck has only one Ritual Monster; Chip damage and value from Kycoo, Breaker, Giant Germ, and Spirit Reaper
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a ritual searcher (Senju, Manju or Sonic Bird), search Black Luster Ritual, then use interaction (Mirror Force, Dust Tornado, Solemn Judgment) to protect the turn while the ritual line may or may not come together
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold trap and spell interaction (Torrential Tribute, Mirror Force, Magic Jammer, Sakuretsu Armor, Solemn Judgment) and remove the opponent's board before a late Ritual Summon
• Recovery: Pot of Avarice recurs up to 5 monsters from the GY; Sangan and the searchers refill the hand; Book of Moon and Scapegoat slow the opponent down
• After siding: None. The deck runs 0 side cards and has no post-side adaptation in the list.

Why it scores here

The deck's Ritual engine is thin. It runs 8 Ritual searchers (Senju x3, Manju x3, Sonic Bird x2) plus Sangan, but only one Ritual Monster (Black Luster Soldier) and two Black Luster Ritual, so most searches have no target. P(at least one of the nine searchers in a 5-card opening hand) is 0.74, but P(Black Luster Ritual in hand) is only 0.24 and P(Black Luster Soldier in hand) is 0.125, so the engine is unreliable (Inferred). Its real strength is interaction on the system level: about 19 removal or negation texts across Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute, Dust Tornado, Solemn Judgment, Magic Jammer, Heavy Storm, Smashing Ground and Lightning Vortex give it a layered end-board that scores well as a Control shell. Its popularity or the 'D.D.' label did not earn points: exact D.D. purity is 2.5% (one card), so the list is effectively off-archetype, and the score was built from the deck's structure rather than from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 42, Going First ≈ 38, Going Second ≈ 44, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Engine conflict (ritual searchers vs payoffs) (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · 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

• Dense, layered interaction suite (traps, spells and monster-effect removal) that works in Control shells
• Strong going-second answers, including Torrential Tribute and Mirror Force
• Card advantage tools (Pot of Avarice, Book of Moon, Scapegoat)

Weaknesses

• Ritual engine has 8 searchers for only 3 payoffs (1 Ritual Monster, 2 Black Luster Ritual)
• Singleton-heavy main deck makes hands inconsistent
• No Extra Deck and no side deck, so no coverage or adaptation
• Limited closing power beyond Black Luster Soldier

Critical choke points

• Black Luster Ritual and Black Luster Soldier must both be drawn for the main threat; a single copy of the Ritual Monster is a hard choke point
• Heavy Storm and Solemn Judgment are 1-copy Limited cards; losing either removes a key answer

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal: 40 main, 0 extra, 0 side; both Limited cards at 1 copy (legal); Black Luster Soldier 3000 ATK; Black Luster Ritual x2; 8 ritual searchers; Exact D.D. purity 2.5% (1 card of 40)
• Inferred: P(>=1 Black Luster Ritual in hand 5) = 0.2372 (hypergeometric); Consistency and brick rate estimates; Removal and negation read from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample is supplied; Matchup fit is unknown
• 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 in YGOVN — brick, starter and matchup rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null and the D.D. archetype label does not match the list (purity 2.5%)