Zombies Deck #58478 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Zombie-tribe boss monsters (Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon Lord, Doomking Balerdroch, Alghoul Mazera) reached through Zombie World and Zombie recursion, as read from card text (Inferred); Link and Synchro bosses (Knightmare Cerberus, Knightmare Unicorn, Baronne de Fleur, Accesscode Talker) as board pressure (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Zombie starter (Zombie World, Necroworld Banshee, Mezuki or Gozuki), search or recur a Zombie with Glow-Up Bloom or Gozuki, then Link or Synchro summon a boss. Probability of at least one core Zombie in a 5-card hand is about 0.61 (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom and Maxx C (both forbidden-limited in the list as built) to interrupt, then rebuild through Zombie recursion. Hand-trap coverage is about 0.48 in a 6-card hand (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recur Zombie monsters from the GY with Mezuki, Gozuki, Changshi and Shinobi Necro, and use Left Arm Offering or Foolish Burial to refill (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: Side Deck size is 0 and no post-side data exists

Why it scores here

The deck cannot receive a normal score because it is illegal in master-duel: it runs three Maxx C, two That Grass Looks Greener, and five Forbidden cards (Called by the Grave x2, Kelbek x2, Artifact Scythe, Agido, Chaos Ruler), and it has no side deck. The structural read comes from the system: a Zombie World and Zombie-recursion engine opens with about 0.61 probability for at least one core Zombie in hand, and six hand traps plus Maxx C give some interruption and going-second resilience. Brick and dilution pull the score down: 60 main-deck cards at the cap, 16 singleton tech cards, and 20 zero-level spells make the engine inconsistent. No recorded boards exist, so combo ceiling and median are text-only inferences. Popularity and archetype usage stats were not credited, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange 85 / Toolbox 15 (Inferred). Structural ≈ 43.5, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 38, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*43.5 + 0.20*35 - 10 = 31.8; Illegal status caps the result at 25 as a theoretical, structural-only score

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.61 · 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

• Zombie World and Zombie recursion can make bosses from a 5-card hand about 61% of the time (Inferred)
• Six hand traps and Maxx C give interruption on both turns (Inferred)
• Several 2800-ATK bosses and Link and Synchro options give closing power (Verified stat, Inferred use)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: five Forbidden cards and three over-limit Limited copies
• Full 60-card main with 16 singletons and 17 tech cards, so the engine is diluted
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptability
• Usage stats show only 6 of 25 core cards present (24%), so this is a non-standard build

Critical choke points

• Zombie World must be live for the recursion engine to work; without it the deck relies on one-card starters (Inferred)
• Forbidden cards are the only route for some lines, so the list cannot be played as built in master-duel

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Forbidden and over-limit cards are present (legality); Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0 counts (composition); Extra Deck breakdown 6 Link, 4 Synchro, 4 Fusion, 1 Xyz (composition); Core usage 6 of 25 present (usage statistics)
• Inferred: Zombie World and recursion engine reliability (about 0.61 for at least one core Zombie in hand); Hand-trap and negation coverage from card text; Midrange primary strategy from composition and text
• Provisional: Meta and matchup standing (no dated sample); Combo floor and median (no recorded boards)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick rate) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck size is 0, so post-side performance cannot be assessed