Zoodiac Deck #770137 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz chains off Zoodiac Level 4 starters into Zoodiac Xyz bosses (Chakanine, Drident, Tigermortar, Boarbow) and the single-copy Rank 4 and Rank 5 finishers (Vespenato, Tornado Dragon, Daigusto Emeral).; Large bodies: Veidos the Eruption Dragon (2800 ATK), Gigantic Champion Sargas (2800 ATK), Alpha (3000 ATK, summon condition), with Elder Entity Norden as a Fusion finisher.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Zoodiac Level 4 starter (Bunnyblast, Ramram, Whiptail, Thoroughblade) or a search from Fire Formation - Tenki or Lunalight Black Sheep, make a Zoodiac Xyz, and hold Forbidden Chalice, Book of Moon, Twin Twisters or Dimension Slice for the opponent's first answer.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to interrupt the opponent's board with Forbidden Chalice, Book of Moon, Twin Twisters, Dimension Slice or Shark Cannon, then rebuild a Zoodiac Xyz from the Level 4 starters that remain.
• Recovery: Pot of Avarice recycles up to five monsters from the GY; Bunnyblast adds a Zoodiac card from the GY to hand; Black Sheep and Fusion Substitute recover from the GY. Royal Prison and the GY-summon effects of Ramram and Norden conflict with this plan.
• After siding: None: the deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reasonably often: 10 Level 4 Zoodiac monsters in the Main Deck, plus Fire Formation - Tenki (3 copies, which searches a Level 4 or lower Beast-Warrior), Lunalight Black Sheep and Speedroid Terrortop, give about a 65% chance of a live Level 4 starter in a 5-card opening hand and about 72% in a 6-card hand. Conversion depends on Zoodiac Xyz summons whose material routes are plentiful but untested here, since no recorded boards exist. Survival comes from 17 copies of spell and trap interaction (Forbidden Chalice, Book of Moon, Twin Twisters, Dimension Slice, Shark Cannon, Royal Prison) and redundant recursion. The main weaknesses are the absence of hand traps, a 0-card side deck, and self-inflicted conflict with Royal Prison. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction read as one system; it does not come from averaging card scores or from the archetype's popularity, which the evidence does not show.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 57, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: engine_conflict (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers. Structural is meta-neutral (D13 dropped, Midrange weights renormalized over 95): 5576/95 = 58.7, rounded 59. Final = 0.80*59 + 0.20*50 - 2 = 55.2, rounded 55. Meta Power provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.65 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.35 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Ten Level 4 starters and three Fire Formation - Tenki searches give a consistent Xyz entry point
• Seventeen copies of spell and trap interaction spread across both turns
• Extra Deck is fully used: 14 Xyz and 1 Fusion, with several Rank 4 boss routes
• Large closing bodies (Veidos, Sargas, Alpha, Pankratops) and recursion (Pot of Avarice, Bunnyblast, Black Sheep)

Weaknesses

• Zero hand traps and zero floodgates
• Zero side deck, so no adaptation after game one
• Low Zoodiac purity (24.3%) with several splash archetypes (Roid, Lunalight, Dinowrestler, Sky Striker, Egyptian God)
• Royal Prison blocks the GY-summon lines this deck relies on
• Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode x3 needs three Tributes and cannot attack, a clunky brick risk

Critical choke points

• Level 4 starter density: all 10 main-deck Zoodiac starters are Level 4, so one Ash Blossom-type disruption on the starter line is not covered by a second engine (Inferred)
• Single copies of Vespenato, Tornado Dragon and Daigusto Emeral as finishers
• Going first on a missed starter, since no side deck or hand trap backs up the opening hand

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 55 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; Legal; no violations; Copy histogram: 2x1, 4x2, 15x3 in Main, which sums to 55; Daigusto Emeral is Limited, 1 copy, legal; Exact-name Zoodiac purity 17 of 70 (24.3%); Extra Deck: 14 Xyz and 1 Fusion, all 15 slots used; Archetype usage stats listed for Zoodiac (19 stat rows)
• Inferred: Starter probabilities: 0.65 at 5 cards, 0.72 at 6 cards (hypergeometric); Brick and dead-draw rate: about 35% of 5-card hands lack a Level 4 starter; Interaction density from 17 copies of spell and trap interaction; Structural and going-first/going-second scores from card text, with no combo boards; Royal Prison conflict with GY-summon lines
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); D13 format fit and archetype meta-share (not supplied); Side-deck plan (no side cards)
• 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 telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates No Side Deck: post-side performance cannot be evaluated Usage-stat in_this_deck flags are false for cards that are in the Extra Deck (Chakanine, Emeral, Hammerkong, Invoker, Drident, Tigermortar, Boarbow, Norden, Tornado Dragon). The list counts them as present, so the missing_core list is unreliable; only Zoodiac Barrage is genuinely absent from the Main/Extra archetype_core_group copies_in_deck = 20 cannot be reproduced from the list (Zoodiac exact = 17) Card description excerpts are truncated (for example Veidos, Pankratops, Ramram), so their full text is not confirmed Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample