K9 Deck #747321 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Fusion/Xyz engine
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Lunalight Fusion boss pressure: Lunalight Liger Dancer (3800 ATK) and Lunalight Leo Dancer (3500 ATK, can attack twice), backed by K9 Xyz bosses (K9-X Werewolf, K9-66X Jacks) when the Xyz route is available.; Lunalight Panther Dancer, Lunalight Sabre Dancer and K9-X Ripper/M as follow-up boards; the Xyz side is a second engine, not a separate win condition.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Lunalight starter (Masquerade, Gold Leo, Kaleido Chick, Fuwalos) and search a Polymerization or Lunalight Fusion, then Fusion Summon a Dancer; K9 Xyz is the alternate T1 route only when the hand already holds a K9 Level 5 pair.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird to stop the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Lunalight searchers and Fusion into a Dancer; Liger Dancer and Jacks are the board-breaking follow-ups.
• Recovery: Recover through 18 search/draw effects and recursion from the GY (Masquerade, Black Sheep, Yellow Marten, Silver Hound) to rebuild the Fusion/Xyz board after an interruption.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games in a best-of-3 format.

Why it scores here

The deck's consistency comes from a dense searcher and starter package: the archetype-core group is at least one copy in an opening five with probability about 0.94, and 18 search/draw effects give it resources through a long game (Inferred from hypergeometric draws over the Main Deck). Its ceiling is high on text alone, since three Lunalight Fusion Dancers and the K9 Xyz bosses can end a game through double attacks and board removal, but no recorded boards exist, so the floor and median are unmeasured and scored conservatively. Interaction is layered across Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Silver Hound and Jacks, which supports resilience and going-second play, while the absence of a Side Deck removes any post-side plan. The score is capped because the list breaks the copy limits for Ash Blossom and Droll and Lock Bird, and it was not raised for popularity or archetype share, nor by averaging the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo profile weights used as-is; Midrange not blended into the numbers. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); no post-side plan (-4). Final formula: Illegal: normal formula 0.80*Structural(64) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(58) + modifiers(-10) = 52.8, capped to 35 as theoretical/structural-only because Ash Blossom and Droll and Lock Bird exceed their copy limits. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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

• Dense searcher package (18 search/draw effects) keeps the engine accessible
• Multiple independent interaction pieces (Ash Blossom, Droll, Silver Hound, Jacks)
• Strong closing bosses: Liger Dancer, Leo Dancer, Werewolf

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts: Ash Blossom 3/2, Droll and Lock Bird 2/1
• Off-archetype dilution (exact K9 purity 23.6 percent)
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Polymerization-type Fusion access (about 4 Polymerization effects plus Lunalight Fusion) gates every Fusion boss
• Ash Blossom and Droll are the going-second interaction; over-limit copies make the list unplayable as built

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is 40 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side and passes size rules; Ash Blossom 3 copies vs 2 legal (Semi-Limited); Droll and Lock Bird 2 copies vs 1 legal (Limited); Card text for all listed cards
• Observed: Usage statistics show K9-17 Izuna at 100 percent inclusion and archetype core present (9 of 22)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand consistency for the archetype core; Going-second hand-trap probability; Ceiling and interaction reads from card text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Floor and median output (no recorded boards)
• 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 exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No guides for the archetype No Side Deck, so post-side is unevaluated