Book of Deck #774710 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 24/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 1 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Paladin (Fusion, 2900 ATK) from Polymerization using Dark Magician and Buster Blader, when the field allows it; Dark Magician Girl and Buster Blader as board pressure after the deck's removal and trap suite clears the opponent's board
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Polymerization plus Dark Magician to attempt a Dark Paladin fusion, or hold traps (Mirror Force, Magic Cylinder, Bottomless Trap Hole) and removal (Smashing Ground, Fissure, Nobleman of Crossout) to answer the opponent's first threat
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Torrential Tribute, Mirror Force and Dust Tornado or Swords of Revealing Light to clear the opponent's board, then rebuild with Pot of Avarice or Card Destruction
• Recovery: Pot of Avarice (5 monsters in GY) and Card Destruction recycle the graveyard; Magician of Faith returns a Spell from GY to hand
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens interaction: its 22 removal-text cards, Torrential Tribute, Mirror Force, Magic Cylinder, and the Hole traps give it real answers to a board. Its engine is thin: Polymerization and Dark Magician each have about a 34% chance of appearing in a 5-card opening hand, and the only Extra Deck card, Dark Paladin, needs three specific pieces (Polymerization, Dark Magician, Buster Blader) at once, so it is not a dependable plan. Recovery is the one real strength, through Pot of Avarice and Card Destruction. The score is capped low because the list is illegal (Graceful Charity is Forbidden in Master Duel), and the score reflects the deck as a system, not an average of its card scores. Popularity of the Book of archetype does not earn points: only 1 of 41 cards carries the exact archetype name, and archetype usage stats do not match this list.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 35, Going First ≈ 33, Going Second ≈ 38, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional), then −10 banlist-exposure modifier for an illegal list

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

• Broad interaction: 22 removal-text cards plus Mirror Force, Magic Cylinder, and Torrential Tribute
• Recovery: Pot of Avarice and Card Destruction recycle the graveyard
• Single Extra Deck threat (Dark Paladin) with real fusion access through Polymerization

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Graceful Charity is Forbidden and must be removed
• Engine is weak: Polymerization and Dark Magician each appear in only about a third of opening hands
• No side deck and no hand traps
• Only 1 of 41 cards carries the Book of archetype name (purity 2.4%)

Critical choke points

• Dark Paladin requires Polymerization, Dark Magician, and Buster Blader together
• Polymerization plus a Dark Magician in hand is the only starter path

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Graceful Charity is Forbidden in Master Duel and is in the Main Deck; the list is illegal; 22 removal-text cards in the Main Deck; Dark Paladin is the only Extra Deck card and is a Fusion Monster (2900 ATK); No side deck is registered (0 cards); Only 1 of 41 cards carries the exact Book of archetype name
• Inferred: Polymerization and Dark Magician each have about a 34% chance of appearing in a 5-card opening hand; Brick risk is high from 15 singletons and 27 Level-0 spells/traps; Dark Paladin needs three specific pieces, so the fusion plan is unreliable; Interaction density and Pot of Avarice recovery support a Control read
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Format fit and matchup performance (no tournament data)
• 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 exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second, matchup, or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck is registered, so post-side scoring rests on the Main Deck only