Code Talker Deck #782047 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ra Immortal Phoenix (4000 ATK via Dangers of the Divine) and Serket fusions (Divine Scorpion Beast 3000 ATK, Divine Serpent Apophis 2800 ATK), supported by Temple of the Kings and Apophis traps; Accesscode Talker and Black Luster Soldier link beats, with Man with the Mark and Merciless Scorpion as the Serket bodies
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a searcher (Man with the Mark, The True Sun God or Treasures of the Kings), set Apophis and Temple traps, and hold hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle) for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (about 85% to hold at least one) to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild through searchers into a Serket fusion or Ra Phoenix
• Recovery: Recur Anubis the Last Judge and Defense of the Temple from the graveyard and banish-add cards, then re-establish Temple of the Kings as the Serket and Apophis enabler
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adjust to matchups

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably through its searchers (about 95% to hold at least one in the opening five, Inferred), but the engine's key field name rests on a single Temple of the Kings plus two Treasures of the Kings, so the route is good but not deep. Interaction is the strongest layer: 10 hand traps, negation text on 14 cards and removal text on 16 give answers on both going first and going second. No recorded boards exist, so the conversion ceiling and median output are read from card text only and carry wide uncertainty. Three of the fifteen Extra Deck slots look unusable with this list, and the side deck is empty, which holds the score down. The score comes from consistency, interaction and recovery across the whole system; it does not come from the Code Talker label, from the deck's popularity, or from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 58.7, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Temple of the Kings choke point (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*58.7 + 0.20*55 - 2 = 56

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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

• Layered interaction: 10 hand traps plus negation and removal traps on both turns
• Several searchers make the opening five likely to hold an engine starter
• Strong closers (Ra Immortal Phoenix, Serket fusions, Black Luster Soldier) with real going-second board pressure

Weaknesses

• Temple of the Kings runs one copy despite three being legal
• Three Extra Deck slots look unusable with this list (Link Spider, Numeron Dragon, AA-ZEUS)
• No Side Deck, so no adjustment to matchups
• Label is Code Talker but exact-name purity is 3.6%, so the identity is unclear

Critical choke points

• Temple of the Kings field name for Serket and Apophis lines (1 copy plus 2 Treasures)
• Hand traps that need an opponent action to be live

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Master Duel with 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; Restricted cards Gold Sarcophagus, Maxx C, Droll and Treasures are run within legal copy counts; Exact archetype-name purity is 3.6%; Temple of the Kings legal copies are 3 and 1 is run
• Inferred: About 0.95 to hold a searcher in 5 cards; About 0.34 to hold a Temple field-name source in 5 cards; About 0.85 to hold a hand trap in 6 cards going second; Three Extra Deck slots are likely dead per their excerpts; Interaction layer is strong based on card text
• Provisional: Median output and floor; Format fit and matchup coverage; Meta power
• Data gaps: No recorded boards, so combo ceiling, median and per-starter output are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going first, going second, or matchups No Side Deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Usage flags mark Extra Deck cards as absent although they appear in the card list; the card list was treated as authoritative Archetype label Code Talker does not match the list's function