Vampires Deck #99547 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Vampire Voivode, Dhampir Vampire Sheridan, The Zombie Vampire, Skeletal Dragon Felgrand, Lubellion) assembled through Vampire searchers and Link/Synchro/Xyz summons; Bystial and Branded Special Summon chains into Bystial Druiswurm / Saronir / Magnamhut pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Level 1 or 2 searcher (Vampire Familiar, Vampire Retainer), search a Vampire, and build toward a Link or Xyz boss; Evenly Matched and Uni-Zombie are the stated tech/hand traps
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Evenly Matched, Vampire Domination on field) and Doomking Balerdroch/Vampire Voivode negation text to answer the first board, then rebuild through searchers in GY and Extra
• Recovery: Vampire GY recursion (Vampire Grace, Vampire Scarlet Scourge, Vampire Ghost) plus Foolish Burial and Necroworld Banshee for Zombie World recovery; no side deck in Master Duel
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no side deck (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in Master Duel because it runs two Forbidden cards (Chaos Ruler and Beatrice, Lady of the Eternal), so the score is a theoretical, structural-only read capped at 30 and is not a normal Final Contextual score. The structural read finds a searcher-dense engine: 14 searcher-text cards give an estimated 0.90 chance of at least one searcher in an opening hand of five (Inferred, from the hypergeometric table and the text hints). Those searchers feed a Link/Synchro/Xyz Extra Deck with reasonable boss power, and hand traps plus removal text (21 removal-text cards, 3 negation-text cards) give the end board some interaction. Against that, there are no recorded boards, no archetype core is present (0 of 25 usage-core cards), and exact-name archetype purity is 0%, so the 55 off-archetype copies make the engine less coherent and the brick risk higher. The score comes from consistency, interaction and boss power on the system, not from Vampires being a popular archetype and not from averaging the card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (approximately 1:0 for structure, default Midrange weights used). Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 44, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-5); illegal list cap (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: Final = 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*49 + 0.20*40 - 5 = 42 uncapped; Illegal cap applied -> 30 (theoretical, structural-only). Meta Power provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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

• Searcher density: 14 searcher-text cards give a high chance of a starter in opening hands
• Layered interaction: 3 hand traps, 3 negation-text cards and 21 removal-text cards
• Extra Deck flexibility across Synchro, Xyz, Link and Fusion bosses

Weaknesses

• Illegal in master-duel: two Forbidden cards must be removed before the list can be played
• 0% exact-name archetype purity and 55 off-archetype copies weaken engine coherence
• No archetype core present in the usage statistics (0 of 25 core cards)
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Vampire searchers (Familiar, Retainer) are the single starting route; losing them to hand traps or Zombie World disruption stalls the line
• Extra Deck bosses rely on specific Link/Synchro/Xyz material sets that are not guaranteed to be present

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Forbidden status of Chaos Ruler and Beatrice in master-duel (legality violations); Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 counts within master-duel size rules; Limited status and copy counts of Branded Fusion, Bystial Magnamhut, Foolish Burial, Predaplant Verte Anaconda, Rivalry of Warlords (all legal at 1 copy); Card text and stats for all listed cards
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher in opening 5) approx 0.90; Structural score 49 under Midrange weights; Interaction density from role hints and removal/negation text; Brick risk from zero-level spells and off-archetype copies
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and format fit (no tournament link)
• 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 absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null in the export