Meklord Deck #97346 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 28/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Assemble a board of Meklord monsters with cumulative ATK pressure, leveraging Emperor effects for recursion and disruption; Fusion or XYZ-based board break via Naturia Exterio, Gear Gigant X, or board-wipe followed by offense
• Turn 1 (going first): Deploy Meklord Army monsters, tutor with Meklord Assembly, search Spell/Trap support, set up Meklord Emperor revival triggers
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Maxx C, Ash) and board-breaker removal (Dark Hole, Torrential) to clear opponent's board, then pivot into Meklord recursion lines
• Recovery: Meklord Emperors chain-trigger recursion when monsters are destroyed; Meklord Army Deployer generates field replacement; Waking the Dragon and Monster Reborn recycle assets
• After siding: No side deck; theoretical only

Why it scores here

This Meklord list is illegal in Master Duel, running 3 copies of Limited Maxx "C" and a Forbidden Apollousa, which immediately disqualifies it from competitive play. Setting legality aside for structural evaluation: the deck suffers from low core-engine consistency (only 12% of standard Meklord package present), heavy reliance on Meklord Assembly as a searcher bottleneck, and a conflicting overall build that mixes graveyard-recursion synergy with generic XYZ and Fusion toolbox cards that do not synergize cleanly. While Meklord monsters have intrinsic recursion mechanics and ATK scaling, the deck lacks a clear going-first board and mediocre going-second removal coverage. The combo ceiling is modest, median output is fragile, and the deck carries substantial brick risk due to high Level 10/11/12 monsters requiring specific setup. Card popularity and archetype usage did not earn any points; the score reflects system-level weaknesses in consistency, engine cohesion, and resilience.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.70 Midrange + 0.30 Control. Structural ≈ 38, Going First ≈ 35, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 32. Modifiers: Illegal banlist violations (-12); Archetype core underutilization (-4); Main Deck density mismatch (-2). Final formula: Illegal deck: capped structural evaluation (0.80 × 38 + 0.20 × 32) − 12 legality penalty = 28

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.46 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.22 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.28 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Meklord monsters have intrinsic recursion mechanics (Emperors trigger on destruction, Armies on battle), enabling some grind value
• Access to hand traps (Maxx "C", Ash Blossom) and board breakers (Dark Hole, Torrential, Harpie's Feather Duster) for going-second interaction
• Meklord Assembly provides a central tutor for Spell/Trap payoff cards, reducing search variance
• Extra Deck includes Naturia Exterio for Spell/Trap negation and Gear Gigant X for Meklord/generic search

Weaknesses

• Illegal in Master Duel: running 3 copies of Limited Maxx "C" and Forbidden Apollousa
• Core consistency critically low (only 12% of archetype standard package); Deployer is the primary active searcher, creating a choke point
• High concentration of Level-1 Emperors that cannot be Normal Summoned—these act as revival bait but clog the opening hand and offer no turn-1 offense
• Level-10 and Level-11 Astro Dragons require 3+ Meklord monsters or a 3-card banish condition; setup-heavy and fragile
• Meklord Army monsters scale off field count but lack piercing or direct damage; offensive pressure is soft and easily stalled
• 54-card main deck with 13 triple-copies amplifies brick rate; deck is 14 cards over optimal legal minimum
• XYZ and Fusion toolbox (Gear Gigant X, Naturia Exterio, Guardian Chimera, trains, etc.) do not integrate cleanly with Meklord recursion lines; scattered focus
• No independent combo lines; all routes collapse into a single Meklord Assembly or Deployer bottleneck under disruption

Critical choke points

• Meklord Assembly is the only active searcher; if negated/removed, the deck loses tutoring and stalls
• Deployer is the primary board generator but destroys itself—if the effect is negated, no replacement monsters spawn
• Lack of card draw engines; Pot of Extravagance banishes random Extra Deck cards and locks out further draws, risking dead hands
• All Meklord offensive lines depend on field presence and destruction triggers; a single board wipe (opponent's Dark Hole, Torrential, Lightning Storm) resets the plan with no recovery

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status is Illegal (Maxx "C" over limit, Apollousa Forbidden); Main Deck size: 54 cards (exceeds optimal 40–50 range); Extra Deck size: 15 cards (legal); Archetype purity: 52.2% exact-name Meklord, 47.8% off-archetype/toolbox; Core cards present in this deck: 3 of 25 standard Meklord package cards (12%)
• Observed: Hand-trap group (Maxx "C", Ash Blossom, Linkuriboh): 4 copies total; Removal cards (Dark Hole, Torrential Tribute, Harpie's Feather Duster, Meklord Deflection): 5 distinct effects; Searcher/tutor cards (Meklord Nucleus Infinity Core, Meklord Assembly, Gear Gigant X): 3 distinct cards, 5 total copies
• Inferred: P(≥1 Meklord starter in opening hand-5) ≈ 0.46, implying ~46% opening consistency (hypergeometric from 6 core cards); Estimated full brick rate ≈ 28% (high Level-1 Emperor concentration and 54-card size); Best-case combo: Deployer into two Armies → Gear Gigant X tutor or continuation; median output: 1–2 Meklord monsters with ~1600–1800 ATK; Interruption recovery: Meklord Emperors and Armies chain-trigger recursion on destruction; estimated ~2 independent lines post-disruption; Going-second interaction: hand traps + board wipes provide moderate coverage; estimated 40–50% board-break rate against typical first turn; Pilotability: Deployer and Assembly routes are deterministic; moderate decision complexity, low error tolerance
• Provisional: Meta Power: Unknown without dated Master Duel metagame sample; Meklord is niche/rogue archetype; Archetype meta-share and tournament record: Not available in the evidence; Format-wide matchup fit: Cannot be assessed without current Master Duel banlist context and competitive metagame data
• Data gaps: No combo boards supplied (combos_evidence.total_combos = 0); all combo floor/median/ceiling is text-based inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry (YGOVN does not track game-level performance); brick rate, starter rate, going-first/second performance are Inferred No guides or strategic commentary for this deck; archetype guidance limited Dated metagame sample not supplied; Meta Power remains Provisional Deck title is null; archetype identity is explicit only from card composition