Zombies Deck #55197 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 32/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 10 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Zombie Extra Deck boss monsters (Skeletal Dragon Felgrand, Doomking Balerdroch, The Zombie Vampire, Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying) reached through Zombie-tribe searches and recursion; the boss list is read from card text only, no recorded boards.; Link and Synchro pressure from Knightmare Unicorn, Accesscode Talker and Psychic End Punisher once the board is stable.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Zombie starter (Mezuki, Shiranui Solitaire, Gozuki, Changshi, Diviner of the Herald) and use Zombie-tribe recursion to reach a Synchro or Link boss; the list has no recorded line, so this plan is inferred from card text.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Maxx C and Uni-Zombie-style interaction to answer the opponent's first board and then rebuild through the GY with Mezuki, Gozuki and Changshi; the hand-trap density is the main going-second value.
• Recovery: Recover through GY-based Special Summons (Mezuki, Gozuki, Shinobi Necro, Changshi) and Zombie World pressure, which relies on the Necroworld Banshee loop.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck (Side Deck size 0) and no post-side data exists.

Why it scores here

This evaluation is structural and theoretical only, because the list is Illegal in Master Duel: six Forbidden cards are run (Called by the Grave, Kelbek, Agido, Chaos Ruler, Apollousa, Abyss Dweller) and four Limited cards exceed their one-copy limit (Maxx C, Mudora, That Grass Looks Greener, Keldo). The main deck is 60 cards across 31 distinct names, with 75 copies of off-archetype cards spread over P.U.N.K., Exchange of the Spirit, Shiranui, Performage, Shaddoll and Herald, so the deck reads as a Zombie toolbox rather than a coherent engine. Starter access is thin: a three-copy starter has about a 23 percent chance of appearing in a going-first opening hand, and the 8 archetype-core copies only reach about 52 percent. The Extra Deck (7 Synchro, 6 Link, 2 Xyz) offers strong bosses, but no recorded boards exist, so combo conversion and median output are text-only inferences. The score is capped low for legality, the banlist exposure is penalised, and the deck has no side deck or meta data.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 38.2, Going First ≈ 35, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-5); no Side Deck (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); Illegal-deck cap applied: (0.80*38.2 + 0.20*30) - 5 = 31.6, rounded to 32

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.23 · 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 negation and hand-trap coverage (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Called by the Grave text, Crossout Designator)
• High-ATK Extra Deck bosses (Chengying 3000, Psychic End Punisher 3500, Felgrand 2800)
• Zombie recursion engine (Mezuki, Gozuki, Changshi, Shinobi Necro) that regenerates from the GY

Weaknesses

• Illegal in Master Duel: six Forbidden and four over-limit Limited cards
• 75 off-archetype copies across six sub-archetypes; low engine coherence
• No side deck and no post-side plan
• Thin starter access: about 23 percent per three-copy starter in going-first openers

Critical choke points

• Reaching any Zombie boss depends on one of the few Extra-Deck enablers (Felgrand, Immortal Dragon), so losing them to a hand trap or board breaker stalls the line
• Maxx C and Mudora are capped at one copy, so the hand-trap count falls once the deck is made legal

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: 10 copy-limit violations and 6 Forbidden cards (legality block); Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0 are within Master Duel size rules; Usage stats: 5 of 25 core cards present (20 percent)
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.23 per three-copy card going first; Brick and interaction quality from card text and role tags; Boss closing power from ATK stats and text
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated meta sample); Matchup and format fit
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second or matchup No side deck, so post-side plan cannot be evaluated Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied