Deck Gem-Knights #709003 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 63/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion‑monster damage với protection; Hand‑trap denial and board control
• Turn 1 (going first): Set multiple hand traps, then Fusion‑summon 1 Gem‑Knight boss với Brilliant Fusion or Dispersion; protect với Lady Rose Diamond or similar.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand‑trap suite to disrupt opponent, then Fusion‑summon via Dispersion or Hollowcore and apply board‑breakers.
• Recovery: Draw engines (Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Maxx C) and searchers retrieve missing Fusion pieces; Ghost Belle provides recursion.
• After siding: None (no side deck).

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens với 1 dense hand‑trap suite and 1 high chance to draw 1 core Fusion starter, giving consistent engine access. It can convert that starter into 1 3000‑ATK Gem‑Knight boss and layer protection, while abundant negations let it survive disruption. Resource engines and draw cards offset the cost of many tech pieces, but the lack of 1 side deck and reliance on specific Fusion cards lower adaptability and increase decision complexity. Scores reflect the system's consistency, median output, interaction depth, and the penalties for side‑deck absence and off‑archetype density, not mere popularity of Gem‑Knights.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 64.15, Going First ≈ 0, Going Second ≈ 0, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); High off‑archetype density (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening 1 starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.04 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Very high hand‑trap count for disruption
• Multiple Fusion engines (Brilliant Fusion, Dispersion, Hollowcore)
• Strong draw and search engines (Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird)

Weaknesses

• No side deck reduces adaptability
• Reliance on specific Fusion starters can cause dead draws
• Large off‑archetype portion increases variance

Critical choke points

• Missing Brilliant Fusion or Gem‑Knight Dispersion leaves the deck vớiout 1 boss
• If hand‑trap suite is disrupted early, board‑breakers are limited

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Legal; Card text excerpts for all listed cards; Hypergeometric probabilities for core and hand‑trap groups
• Inferred: Engine accessibility from core probability 0.96; Brick estimate from off‑archetype density; Combo ceiling and floor from theoretical lines; Resilience from multiple Fusion routes and hand traps; Resource economy from draw engines and searchers; Interaction quality from hand‑trap count and protective fusions; Going‑second power from hand‑trap suite probability 0.94; Closing power from 3000‑ATK boss monsters; Main deck efficiency from distinct count; Extra deck coverage from 15‑card breakdown; Pilotability from decision complexity
• Provisional: Matchup coverage due to lack of tournament data
• 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 win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless 1 dated metagame sample is supplied