Code Talker Deck #780319 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck pressure (Divine Scorpion 3000 ATK, Divine Serpent Apophis, Winged Dragon of Ra Phoenix 4000 ATK) set up behind a Temple of the Kings and trap-based protection (Inferred from text); Link pressure (Knightmare Unicorn, Black Luster Soldier 3000 ATK) and Accesscode Talker (Inferred from text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Use Treasures of the Kings or Man with the Mark to reach Temple of the Kings, keep 1-2 hand traps up, and avoid committing the whole hand to a board that a single removal can clear
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Infinite Impermanence) to answer the opponent's first summon, then convert with Verdict of Anubis, Judgment of Anubis or Dominus Purge plus an Extra Deck summon
• Recovery: Recover from the Graveyard with Ghost Belle, the Defense of the Temple Graveyard effect and the Apophis the Serpent Graveyard effect, then rebuild Temple of the Kings from the Deck (Inferred from text)
• After siding: Not applicable: no side deck is supplied and the format is played as a single game

Why it scores here

The deck's strength comes from the system: ten hand traps and fourteen negation-text cards answer first summons in both turn orders, and seventeen searchers plus three-copy starters make a live opening likely, though that is inferred from probabilities rather than observed. The Extra Deck (four Fusion, nine Link, two Xyz) supplies late pressure, most clearly the 3000-ATK fusion and 4000-ATK Phoenix routes, but the Temple, Apophis and Ra engines connect only partly, which caps consistency and median output. No recorded boards exist, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference, and the Code Talker label earned no points because most of the list is Temple of the Kings and Apophis. Popularity and usage statistics added no points, and no card scores were averaged. Meta and matchup fit are provisional, and banlist exposure plus a single-copy Temple choke trim the final score by four points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); unrecoverable choke point (-1); split engines (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(meta-neutral, D13 dropped: 5956/93 ≈ 64) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(58) + ContextModifiers(-4) = 58.8, rounded to 59; Meta Power provisional

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

• Ten hand traps and fourteen negation-text cards answer first summons and set-ups in both turn orders (Inferred)
• Seventeen searcher-text cards and three-copy starters (Man with the Mark, Anubis, Ash Blossom) make a live opening likely (Inferred)
• Layered Spell/Trap answers (Verdict of Anubis, Judgment of Anubis, Dominus Purge, Apophis the Swamp Deity) and recursion through Ghost Belle and Maxx C (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards exist, so the deck's real output cannot be measured; all combo claims are text-only (Verified data gap)
• The archetype label reads Code Talker, but the list is mainly Temple of the Kings and Apophis, with only a two-card Code Talker Link core (Verified)
• Several cards need specific conditions (Verdict needs three other Spells/Traps, Anubis needs three different Temple or Trap names in the Graveyard, Merciless Scorpion needs Temple on the field), which can stall hands (Inferred)
• Hand-trap density can leave dead hands on going first when no board is present (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Temple of the Kings (1 copy): the enabler for Merciless Scorpion, Verdict of Anubis and several Serket summons
• Treasures of the Kings (2 copies, Semi-Limited): the main route to the Temple and Apophis traps
• Spell/Trap count for Verdict of Anubis and the Temple/Trap Graveyard-name count for Anubis the Last Judge

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck of 40 and Extra Deck of 15 meet the Master Duel size rules; All four restricted cards are within legal copies (Maxx C 1, Gold Sarcophagus 1, Droll and Lock Bird 2, Treasures of the Kings 2); Card text, attributes and copy counts for every listed card; The list is mainly Temple of the Kings and Apophis cards by archetype spread
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter access: each 3-copy starter about 34% in a 5-card opening; Hand-trap and interaction density from text roles (10 hand traps, 14 negation texts); Going-first and going-second scores from weighted dimensions
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup coverage (no dated metagame or tournament link); Side-deck adaptability scored neutral at 50 (no side deck, single-game format)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null, and the Code Talker label does not match most of the list Usage statistics mark several Extra Deck cards as not in this deck (for example Divine Serpent Apophis and Decode Talker) although the card list runs them, so the core-coverage read is unreliable and was not used No side deck supplied, so the post-side term is not scored