Zombies Deck #764854 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 50/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 50 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Call of the Haunted and Zombie recursion (Pumpking, Great Mammoth, Diabellstar, Azamina) build a Zombie board, then Pumpking the Great Ghost King or a 2500+ ATK monster closes.; Fiendsmith Requiem/Lacrima and Undying Legion as Extra Deck boards; Dark Magician of Destruction as a late-game beater.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Call of the Haunted, Diabellstar, Pumpking, Mulcharmy, Stare) and extend with Call of the Forgotten or Ectoplasmic Fortification; hold Ash or Impermanence for the first interruption.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash, Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler, Nibiru) to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Zombie recursion.
• Recovery: Recur Call of the Haunted and Zombies from the GY (Pumpking, Great Mammoth, Officiating Reverie, Changshi) and re-enter via Fiendsmith's Tract or Azamina search.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens something on most hands: the archetype-core group has about 97% odds of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and Call of the Haunted, Pumpking, Diabellstar and Mulcharmy each have three copies. Its interaction is the strongest part of the system, with 14 hand traps and tech cards (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler, Nibiru, Ghost Ogre), and about 88% odds of at least one hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand. Recursion through Zombie monsters and Call of the Haunted lets it recover after disruption, but the engine is split across Call of the Haunted, Fiendsmith, Diabellstar and Azamina, so many hands are conflicting or dead. The deck has no recorded boards and no matchup data, so its median output and matchup fit are estimated from text only. Popularity and guide mentions did not earn points, the guides call it a meme deck weak to interaction, and the score comes from the system rather than an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*55.1 + 0.20*50 = 54.1, then context modifiers -4 = 50

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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 interaction: 14 hand traps and tech cards with several negations and destruction effects
• Recursion through Call of the Haunted and Zombie monsters gives recovery after disruption
• Legal and within size rules; restricted cards run at legal copy counts

Weaknesses

• Multiple unrelated sub-engines (Call of the Haunted, Fiendsmith, Diabellstar, Azamina) compete for the same slots
• No Side Deck, so no adaptation between games
• Hand-trap-heavy list with conditional cards risks dead hands and bricks

Critical choke points

• Call of the Haunted (3 copies) is needed to set up most Zombie lines
• Pumpking the King of Grave Ghosts and Diabellstar as the main starters
• Opponent's first board removal or negation, since few lines continue through a full interruption

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 50, Extra 15, Side 0 within Master Duel size rules; Limited (Maxx C, WANTED) and Semi-Limited (Droll) copy counts respected; Composition: 14 hand traps, 13 searchers, 65 off-archetype copies, 0% exact archetype purity
• Observed: Usage stats show archetype-standard core cards present (16 of 25 core cards)
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probabilities; Interaction density and resilience from card text; Going-first versus going-second estimates
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no dated meta sample); Meta Power (null)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate or matchup telemetry in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied