Zoodiac Deck #762018 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz and Link boards from the Zoodiac core, closing with Fiendsmith's Desirae and Xyz boss monsters (Inferred from card text; no combo data); Fiendsmith and Radiant Typhoon splash lines providing alternative boss or searcher routes (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Piri Reis Map, Fire Formation - Tenki, Speedroid Terrortop, Radiant Typhoon Swen) to reach a level-4 Zoodiac starter and build an Xyz, holding Ash Blossom for the first disruption (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C) to stop the opponent's first summon, then convert the Zoodiac follow-up into an Xyz (Inferred)
• Recovery: Zoodiac Barrage and Zoodiac Combo recover board presence by destroying and re-summoning Zoodiac monsters from the Deck (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan; best-of-three play is unsupported by this list

Why it scores here

The list is illegal as submitted: three copies of Radiant Typhoon Eldam exceed its Semi-Limited limit of two, so this is a structural-only read and the final score is capped at 35. Structurally the 40-card Main Deck has 20 searcher-text cards, a 97.6% chance of at least one searcher in an opening hand of five, and six hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C), which gives it real consistency and going-second interaction. The deck spreads across Zoodiac, Radiant Typhoon, Fiendsmith, Roid, Fire Formation, Mulcharmy and X-Saber cards; only 16 of 40 Main copies are exact-name Zoodiac (29.6% exact purity), which weakens engine coherence and the Extra Deck's cohesion. No combo boards, tournament link, or side deck exist, so the floor, median and ceiling scores are inferred from card text rather than measured, and the dimension scores were not averaged from individual card power. Popularity of the Zoodiac archetype was not counted toward the score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox secondary weights not applied (single profile used). Structural ≈ 53.2, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Copy-limit / banlist exposure (-10); No post-side plan (-2); Illegal-list cap (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 52.2, then context modifiers -12 = 40.2, then illegal-list cap applied = 35 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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

• Searcher density (20 searcher-text cards) gives high starter access
• Six hand traps and layered negation text give strong going-second interaction
• Zoodiac core has 16 exact-name copies, so the engine has a real spine

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: Radiant Typhoon Eldam at 3 copies exceeds its limit of 2
• Low exact-name purity (29.6%) across seven related archetypes weakens engine cohesion
• No side deck, so there is no post-side plan
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median output are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• The Eldam overage means the list cannot be played in a legal event until fixed
• Starter access depends on Ash Blossom and the searchers rather than on a single line
• Xyz conversion depends on level-4 Zoodiac monsters being present in hand or Deck

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Radiant Typhoon Eldam is run at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2 (Illegal); Main Deck is 40 cards and Extra Deck is 14, within Master Duel size rules; Zoodiac exact-name purity is 16 of 40 Main copies (29.6%); Six hand traps and 20 searcher-text cards are present in the Main Deck
• Inferred: Consistency and hypergeometric draw odds from the resolved list; Going-second interaction value of the six hand traps; Engine coherence cost from splash across seven archetypes
• Provisional: Meta Power is null and format fit (D13) is Provisional without a dated metagame sample; Combo ceiling and median (D3, D4) are unmeasured because no boards exist
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No side deck registered (side_count 0) Usage-statistics core flags are internally inconsistent with the deck list: Zoodiac Tigermortar, Zoodiac Broadbull, Zoodiac Boarbow, Zoodiac Chakanine, Zoodiac Drident, M-X-Saber Invoker and S:P Little Knight are present in the Extra Deck list but marked in_this_deck false, so the core_present_pct of 24% was not used No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied