Zombies Deck #762242 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 52/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 44 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Boss monsters from several Zombie engines (Pumpking the Great Ghost King, Revendread/Vendread Ritual monsters, The Undying Legion) converting an opened board into 2300+ ATK pressure; Fiendsmith Fusion and Link extension with Fiendsmith Engraver and Lacrima the Crimson Tears
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Pumpking, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Dark Necromancer, Fiendsmith Engraver or Ash Blossom) and extend through Call of the Haunted or Ectoplasmic Fortification into a Zombie boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 8 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C) to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Vendread recursion or Pumpking
• Recovery: Recursion from the GY: Vendread Core, Vendread Houndhorde, Vendread Revenants and Lacrima can be Special Summoned from the GY, and Pumpking and Call of the Haunted can rebuild from a single GY monster
• After siding: No side deck is registered (Side Deck size 0) and Master Duel ladder play is single-game, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck is legal and fully populated, but it is a multi-engine Zombie toolbox rather than a single engine: 59 of 44 main-deck copies sit outside the exact Zombies archetype name, spread across Vendread, Call of the Haunted, Fiendsmith, Mulcharmy, Death and others. The score comes from the system: eight hand traps and 16 removal-text cards give strong interaction, four Zombie boss bodies at 2300 ATK or more give closing power, and several independent starters (about 0.84 odds of at least one searcher in the opening five) keep the deck from being single-choke-point fragile. It is pulled down by engine conflicts (LIGHT Fiend, Ritual and GY-dependent lines compete for the same slots), conditional bricks in the Vendread Ritual package, and a high pilotability burden. Popularity and guide coverage did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 59.5, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-4); off-archetype spread (-2); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.31 · 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

• Eight hand traps and 16 removal-text cards give high interaction density
• Several independent starters and GY recursion give redundancy after disruption
• Four or more Zombie boss bodies at 2300 ATK or more give closing power

Weaknesses

• No single coherent engine: about 59 off-archetype copies across Vendread, Fiendsmith, Call of the Haunted and Mulcharmy
• Conditional bricks in the Vendread Ritual package and LIGHT Fiend lines
• High pilotability burden with Ritual, Fusion and Link steps

Critical choke points

• Pumpking and Call of the Haunted lines depend on Zombie monsters in the GY, which Droll and interruptions can remove
• Limited banlist cards (Maxx C, Crossout Designator, Gold Sarcophagus) are single copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 44 main, 15 extra, 0 side; all restricted cards at or below legal copies; Card stats and text from the evidence pack; Role-hint counts: 8 hand traps, 13 searcher-text, 16 removal-text, 7 negation-text
• Observed: Usage stats show Pumpking, Mulcharmy and Ash Blossom at 100% inclusion at 3 copies
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and hand trap estimates; Interaction density and going-second read; Engine conflict and consistency reads
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated meta sample); Side deck adaptability (no side deck, single-game format)
• 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 win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick/starter rates usage statistics core matching appears to ignore Extra Deck cards: Fiendsmith's Requiem, Lacrima, Pumpking the Great Ghost King, Sequence, Moon, Little Knight, Flying Mary, Undying Legion and Officiator Samuel are in the extra zone but listed as missing core cards guides are thin (section_count 0 on both) no side deck registered; Master Duel single-game format