[Top 5] Yugioh Master Duel Best Starter and Structure Decks - Which To Choose

Updated: 23 Mar 2022 11:28 pm

Structure deck Store, Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Storefront with all the structure decks, choose wisely.

BY: Kei Preston

What are Starter and Structure Decks?

In Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duels, the game presents us with pre-made decks that are catered to those who have started their journey in Master Duels. Though each is great for their own reasons, some of these decks have better performance than the others.

Starter Decks

Starter decks are decks given to the player at the start of the game, after they finish the tutorial. The game will prompt the player to pick between three different choices these are:

Power of Dragons - A deck that has great synergy with Dragon type units and features the very iconic card Blue-Eyes White Dragon at three copies. Has great emphasis on both Fusion and Tribute Summoning. Though their boss monster, Five-Headed Dragon, lacks protection outside of battle and is quite difficult to summon.

Synchro of Unity - A deck that has a great focus on Synchro Summoning, a way of special summoning cards from the Extra Deck. This deck has a greatt balance between Tuner Cards and Effect Monsters to ensure consistent Synchro summoning. The boss monster is Junk Warrior, which can have its ATK stat go out of hand by gaining all the total ATK of all level 2 monsters in the field. Outside of that, this deck will have a hard time protecting this boss monster out of battle.

Link Generation - A deck that focuses on Link Summoning Monsters, which is the most recent Extra Deck summoning method introduced. Cyberse Cards comprises most of the deck which all support the Link Summon archetype. The boss monster Decode Talker has effects that increase its attack and protect itself from destruction outside of battle, making this the easiest boss monster amongst the starter deck to have.

But do not be hard pressed if you felt like you picked the wrong starter deck, you can get the other unchosen decks from quests. In terms of Strength and Consistency of the Starter decks, it would be Link Generation > Synchro of Unity > Power of Dragons. This also is the same on the difficulty of the deck with Link Generation being the hardest one to pilot.

Structure Decks

Structure Decks are pre-made decks full of cards varying in rarity, which the player can pull from legacy packs. These pre-made decks all cost 500 Gems in the store, and have a varying number of URs, SRs, Rs, and Ns in the deck. The Structure Decks are built with an engine and an archetype to focus on making it easy to upgrade as the direction is not as vague as the Starter Decks.

The current available Structure Decks are:

Re-Contract Universe - This deck utilises XYZ summoning in tandem with Zeal Weapon Engine to XYZ summon Utopia and Rank it up to other Utopia Ray boss monsters for a very versatile playstyle. It is composed of 4 UR Cards, 9 SR Cards, 14 R Cards, and 18 N Cards.

Magicians of Pendulum - This deck focuses on Pendulum Summoning through the use of the Magician Cards as their Engine, and combines Fusion, Synchro and XYZ summoning to the mix. Their boss monsters, Beast-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, and Rune-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, are quite strong but lack protection. It is composed of 4 UR Cards, 12 SR Cards, 13 R Cards, and 16 N Cards. This is the deck with the most value because of the high amount of SR Cards in this deck.

Rage of Cipher - Is another deck that focuses on XYZ summoning and is the most recently released Structure Deck in the Store. The engines this deck runs are The Cipher Engine and Galaxy support all in the effort to XYZ summon Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X Dragon, and it offers a slew of innate protection for the boss monster. It is composed of 3 UR Cards, 10 SR Cards, 12 R Cards, and 20 N Cards. This deck has the least value amongst the other Structure Decks offered in the shop.

5. Power of Dragons

BIG STRONG DRAGON!!

Do you like enormous dragons floating across the sky, burning down all your enemies? Do you want to live out Seto Kaiba fantasy? Then the Power of the Dragons is for you!

Focusing greatly on the Monster Type: Dragons, the player will have access to target prevention with the Monster Lord of D. and targeted spell/trap card removal with Stamping Destruction. The deck has ways to special summon Dragons from the hand and GY, allowing for easy Tribute Summons and Fusion Summons to happen.

Pros of the Deck

Easy to use and is the most Newbie friendly of all the Starter Decks.
Does not need that much strategy to bring out Blue Eyes White Dragon.
A very nostalgic Deck.
It has plenty of ways to be upgraded because of its very general nature.

Cons of the Deck

Very weak.
Requires having specific hard to summon cards to protect The Boss Monsters.
The Boss Monster Five-Headed Dragon is very hard to summon and the pay–off isn’t really worth it.
Outside of the Dragon summoning gimmick, the deck has nothing to offer and is easily counterable.

Card List

Monsters - 21

3x Luster Dragon

2x Divine Dragon Ragnarok

2x Blue-Eyes White Dragon

1x Twin-Headed Behemoth

2x Dark-Hex-Sealed Fusion

2x Kidmodo Dragon

2x Lord of D.

2x Lancer Dragonute

2x Axe Dragonute

2x Kaiser Glider

1x Strong Wind Dragon

Spells - 13

2x The Flute of Summoning Dragon

3x Stamping Destruction

2x Back to Square One

2x Fusion Substitute

2x Rush Recklessly

2x Silver’s Cry

Traps - 6

2x Ring of Destruction

2x Threatening Roar

2x Defense Draw

Extra - 5

3x King Dragun

2x Five-Headed Dragon

4. Link Generation

I Link Summon, Decode Talker!!

Imagine you are floating in the endless abyss of the Cyber-net. Numbers and codes float through the air as you swim around the surrounding space. If you like powerful plays and cyber monsters, then this deck is for you!

Link Summons are the focus of the deck, linking monsters into a stronger form. This is the best of the Starter Decks in terms of performance, but the hardest one to pilot because of its complicated nature. The deck’s boss monster is Decode Talker and has an innate way of protecting itself from removal.