Sacred Beast Deck #777671 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Control
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Level 10 Sacred Beast Special Summons (Infinity of the Sacred Beasts - Raviel, Calamity - Hamon) and Extra Deck boss monsters (The Chaotic Phantasmal Sacred Beasts 5000 ATK, Varudras) that convert board advantage into lethal attacks; Hand-trap-protected Link and Xyz boards built from Phantasm and Link-fodder lines
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Sacred Beasts Thunderclap or Sacred Beasts Released to search and bring out a Level 10 Sacred Beast starter, protected by Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, and Infinite Impermanence on the opponent's turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 2 to 3 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Maxx C) to stop the opponent's board, then rebuild through Martyr or Lightning Crash searches into a Phantasm Level 10 boss
• Recovery: Recur Thunderclap and Released from the GY and Martyr's Special Summon from the GY, then rebuild the Phantasm engine from Card of the Soul and Lightning Crash searches
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games in its current list

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional Phantasm starter through redundant copies (3x Thunderclap, 3x Released, 3x Martyr, plus 3x Lightning Crash and Card of the Soul as searchers), so its engine comes online in most opening hands. Its interaction is the strongest part of the system: 13 hand traps including Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, and Infinite Impermanence give a 92% chance of at least one hand trap when going second, which lets the deck stop a board before it converts. Once a Level 10 Sacred Beast lands, the Extra Deck boss monsters supply 5000 ATK and negation/removal, so the deck closes games once it stabilises. Scores were built on the system (engine redundancy, interaction density, recursion and closing power), not by averaging card scores, and the popularity of the archetype did not earn points. No combo boards, tournament record, or side deck exist, so the combo, meta and post-side dimensions are held to inferred or provisional ranges.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 67, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 72, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Engine redundancy and compactness (2); No side deck (-2); Limited card exposure (Maxx C) (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers; 0.80*66.8 + 0.20*58 = 65.0, then -1 total modifiers = 64

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Redundant 3-copy starters and searchers (Thunderclap, Released, Martyr, Lightning Crash)
• 13 hand traps give high going-second interaction (0.92 at least one in hand6)
• Level 10 Sacred Beast bosses and Chaotic Phantasmal Sacred Beasts provide high closing power

Weaknesses

• No side deck (0 cards), so no post-side plan
• Many Extra Deck Link monsters are generic fodder rather than engine pieces
• No recorded combo boards or tournament data to confirm the ceiling and median

Critical choke points

• Level 10 Sacred Beast starter must be live; several bosses need a Sacred Beast effect to Special Summon
• Hand trap timing depends on holding cards, which can strand the board if no starter is drawn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Maxx C Limited at 1 copy; Card stats and text from resolved cards; Composition: 13 hand traps, 20 searcher-text cards, 21 Phantasm copies
• Inferred: Starter consistency and brick estimates from hypergeometric probabilities; Combo ceiling and median from card text only (no recorded boards); Going-second interaction density from hand-trap counts
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no tournament link or dated metagame sample)
• 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 side deck — post-side adaptation cannot be scored beyond inferred composition no win-rate telemetry — going-first/second and matchup rates unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied