K9 Deck #769650 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 50/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Xyz
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz boss monsters (K9-66X Jacks, K9-00 Hound, Umbral Horror Masquerade, Vallon) built from K9 level-5 monsters, with Charmer and Spellbook searchers feeding the line; Fusion boss Charmers of the Grand Circle and Possessed Destiny - Wynn, plus Number-based Xyz for board control
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Spellbook or Charmer enabler, Normal Summon K9-66b Lantern or K9-00 Lupis, then extend into a level-5 Xyz or Fusion Summon to clear a single threat
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-based searches and removal (Pair Bear Scare, Forced Release, Possessed Destiny) to answer the opening board, then Xyz into a boss from the Extra Deck
• Recovery: Recycle Charmers and Lantern from the GY through Spellbook of Secrets and Knowledge, and Xyz detach effects to rebuild a board
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional hand because 23 main-deck cards carry searcher text and the probability of at least one searcher in an opening five is about 0.99, so the engine is accessible even though the exact K9 core is thin (9 exact-name copies, 16.4% exact purity). Its conversion relies on Xyz and Fusion bosses drawn from the Extra Deck, with Jacks, Hound, Umbral Horror Masquerade and Vallon providing high ATK and removal text, but no recorded boards exist, so ceiling and median are inferred from card text rather than measured. Interaction is moderate (13 removal-text cards, one negation, zero hand traps and zero floodgates), and recursion through Charmers and Lantern supports resilience after one disruption. Popularity or archetype usage did not earn points, and the score was not produced by averaging individual card scores; the spread across Spellbook, Charmer, Possessed and Rescue-ACE sub-engines lowers coherence, and the missing side deck caps the post-side score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, no secondary weighting applied. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-2); engine_conflicts (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated sample); 0.80*55.2 + 0.20*52 - 5 = 49.6 → 50

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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 gives near-certain access to some enabler every opening hand
• Several high-ATK Xyz and Fusion bosses with removal or negation text
• Recursion through Charmers, Lantern and Spellbook cards supports grind

Weaknesses

• Exact K9 core is thin (9 copies) and the archetype core is only 33% present against the usage baseline
• Low exact archetype purity fragments the engine across sub-archetypes
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• K9 level-5 monsters (Lantern, Lupis, Jokul) are needed to build the main Xyz line; losing them to a single removal forces a slow rebuild
• Two Limited cards each run as single copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0; legal under OCG ban list; Two Limited cards each at one legal copy; Archetype purity 16.4% and 23 searcher-text cards from the export
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency for the K9 starters and the searcher-based access estimate; Interaction quality, resilience and going-second board-breaking scores; Pilotability estimate from Xyz and Fusion chain length
• Provisional: Format fit and meta share, because no tournament link or dated meta sample exists
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck registered, so post-side adaptability is unmeasured