Zombies Deck #66014 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 8 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Psychic End Punisher, Skeletal Dragon Felgrand, Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon Lord, The Zombie Vampire) backed by Zombie recursion; Gozuki and Changshi the Spiridao recursion loops feeding Synchro/Link summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Zombie or Danger! monster, use Gozuki/Changshi to send and revive Zombies, then Synchro or Link into a boss. Not verifiable without the forbidden cards removed and no recorded boards.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring for a hand-trap response, then rebuild through Zombie recursion. Going-second split is not available in the evidence.
• Recovery: Banish-cost recursion (Mezuki, Gozuki, Shiranui Spectralsword, Changshi) and Danger! hand effects to rebuild the field from the GY.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan can be assessed.

Why it scores here

The list is illegal in Master Duel: seven Forbidden cards and one over-limited card (Mudora, 3 copies against 1 allowed) are in the main deck, so the deck receives a capped, theoretical score only. Structurally, the deck has a Zombie recursion core (Gozuki, Changshi, Mezuki, Shiranui Spectralsword) that can rebuild from the GY, and a 15-card Extra Deck with several high-ATK bosses. The starter reliability is weak: each Zombie World, Ash Blossom and P.U.N.K. copy has about a 23% chance of appearing in a 5-card opening hand, and the archetype core is only about 47% likely to be present. Archetype purity is 0% exact-name, with 75 off-archetype copies across roughly 19 sub-archetypes, so the engine is spread across conflicting lines. Popularity and the archetype's presence in guides did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange profile (Combo secondary context only, not blended into weights). Structural ≈ 36, Going First ≈ 35, Going Second ≈ 33, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 33. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); Engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 35.4 before modifiers; modifiers −11 gives ≈24; illegal-list cap applied → 20

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

• Repeatable Zombie recursion (Gozuki, Changshi, Mezuki, Shiranui Spectralsword)
• Large-ATK Extra Deck boss options with mixed Synchro, Link and XYZ routes
• Three Ash Blossom copies for hand-trap interaction

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: seven Forbidden cards and one over-limit card
• Low 3-copy starter access (≈23% in hand 5)
• Sub-archetype spread (0% exact-name purity) causes engine conflicts
• No side deck and no recorded boards

Critical choke points

• Zombie World and Necroworld Banshee interaction, which is removed in a legal list
• Single Ash Blossom line for interruption if the hand-trap copies are drawn late

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: seven Forbidden cards and Mudora over the Limited cap; Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0; size rules satisfied for Master Duel; Archetype purity 0% exact-name; 75 off-archetype copies; Core group: 3 of 25 usage-core cards present
• Inferred: Starter hypergeometric estimates (0.2333 for 3-copy starters, 0.4746 for archetype core); Recursion-based resource regeneration from card text; Boss threat level from listed ATK/DEF
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated sample); Matchup fit (D13) and going-second strength (D8)
• 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, and brick/starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Deck title is null, and the deck is illegal, so no legal-version evaluation exists