Zoodiac Deck #759685 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Vanquish Soul board pressure: revival and Link/Xyz beaters (Heavy Borger, Caesar Valius, Magnamhut, Druiswurm) once a Vanquish Soul monster is on board (Inferred from text); Knightmare and Accesscode Talker extra-deck pressure (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Vanquish Soul monster via Razen, Dr. Mad Love or Stake your Soul!, then spend the turn building Link/Xyz material (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, D.D. Crow, Ghost Belle, Maxx C) to stop the opponent's first summon, then Vanquish Soul revival (Inferred)
• Recovery: Vanquish Soul - Continue? and Vanquish Soul Heavy Borger/Caesar Valius recursion from the GY (Inferred from text)
• After siding: Not defined: the deck has 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan (Verified)

Why it scores here

The list is illegal in Master Duel: four Forbidden cards (Dimension Shifter x2, Pot of Prosperity, Abyss Dweller, Bagooska) and two over-limit Limited cards (Maxx C x3, Stake your Soul! x3) are run, so the structural score is theoretical only and the final score is capped. The body of the deck is Vanquish Soul (22 of 58 archetype-tagged cards) with a Zoodiac label that the card pool does not support; only 3 cards match the exact Zoodiac name, and the usage-statistics comparison is unreliable here. Interaction density is the deck's strongest signal (11 hand traps, 18 removal-text cards, 4 negation-text cards), which supports the going-second read but does not by itself make the engine reliable. No recorded boards, tournament link, guides or side deck were supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are all unknown, and meta power stays null. Popularity and archetype label were not credited, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 40, Going First ≈ 38, Going Second ≈ 36, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); weak post-side plan (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(40) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) + modifiers(-8) = 31 pre-cap; Illegal cap applied, final 20 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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 hand-trap and removal-text interaction (11 hand traps, 18 removal-text cards)
• Searcher density (14 searcher-text cards) gives high access to a starter
• Multiple revival routes (Continue?, Borger, Valius) for recovery

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 4 Forbidden and 3 over-limit Limited cards
• Empty side deck: no post-side plan
• Body is Vanquish Soul while the label is Zoodiac; Zoodiac Extra Deck cards are present but unused by the core

Critical choke points

• Vanquish Soul 3-copy starters (about 0.34 chance in an opening 5) as the only real engine entry
• Hand traps competing for the same opening hand as the searchers

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 4 Forbidden and 3 over-limit Limited cards; Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 are within size rules; Copy histogram 1:13, 2:6, 3:5 sums to 40 main cards; Extra Deck breakdown: 8 Link, 6 Xyz, 1 Synchro
• Inferred: Vanquish Soul starter access and brick rate from hypergeometric draw odds; Interaction density from card-text role tags (hand traps, removal, negation); Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: Illegal list: score is capped and structural-only No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot records absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Archetype label 'Zoodiac' does not match the Vanquish Soul-led card body (22 of 58 tagged cards) Usage statistics mark Zoodiac Chakanine, Drident and Boarbow as not in the deck, though the deck export lists them in the Extra Deck; the usage join looks inconsistent No side deck (0 cards), so no post-side evidence