Zombies Deck #60152 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Branded/Albaz Fusion boss (Albion the Branded Dragon, Titaniklad, Dragonecro Nethersoul) via Branded Fusion or Fallen of Albaz; Zombie World field plus Zombie beatsticks (Doomking Balerdroch, Alghoul Mazera) and Link/Xyz pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Starter from hand (Branded Opening / Fallen of Albaz / Glow-Up Bloom searches), then Branded Fusion into a 2500+ Fusion boss; the illegal copy counts make this plan unavailable as built
• Turn 2 (going second): Open on 6 cards with Ash Blossom, Maxx C and Called by the Grave to stop the opponent's first board, then Fusion through the board; the Called by the Grave and Maxx C copies are illegal as built
• Recovery: Banish-based recursion: Albion Shrouded Dragon, Necroworld Banshee and Mezuki in GY; Doomking Balerdroch and Glow-Up Bloom for rebuy
• After siding: No side deck is present (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal as built: five copy-limit violations include three Forbidden cards (Called by the Grave, Pot of Prosperity, Number 41) and two Limited cards run over their limit (Maxx "C", Branded Fusion), so the score is capped and the evaluation is structural only. The deck has a real ceiling through its Branded/Albaz Fusion chain, which produces 2500+ ATK bosses, and ten hand-trap and negation effects give it reasonable interaction. Its engine is weak: the archetype purity is 0%, with 55 off-archetype copies across Branded, Despia, Dogmatika, Predaplant, Greed, Harpie and Venom, so starter access is low (about 24% to see one of two Fallen of Albaz in a 5-card hand). The score comes from consistency, interaction and boss power on the whole system, not from averaging the card scores, and the deck's popularity in guides gave no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 45, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflicts (-4); off-archetype density (-2); illegal cap (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 43, then context modifiers -12 gives 31, then the Illegal cap sets the final score to 25

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• Ten hand-trap and negation effects (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Belle) give strong going-second interaction, but three of those copies are over the limit
• Fusion and Link bosses reach 2500-3000 ATK
• Recursion and searchers (Albion Shrouded Dragon, Glow-Up Bloom, Necroworld Banshee) support grinding

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: over copy limits and Forbidden cards
• 0% archetype purity; the list mixes several archetypes
• Low starter access for Fallen of Albaz (about 24% in a 5-card hand)
• No side deck
• No recorded combo boards or tournament data

Critical choke points

• Branded Fusion and Fallen of Albaz: both are required for the main Fusion chain
• Zombie World and Necroworld Banshee: the field support depends on a single Field Spell

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status with five copy-limit violations and three Forbidden cards; Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts within the Master Duel size rules; 0% archetype purity and 55 off-archetype copies; Card text and stats for the Fusion, Link and hand-trap cards
• Inferred: Starter access probabilities (Fallen of Albaz 0.237, core group 0.694); Hand-trap coverage (0.845 going second); Engine conflict and brick risk from the mixed archetype cores
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample or tournament link)
• 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 records are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first, going-second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck is listed, so post-side plans cannot be evaluated