Zoodiac Deck #771779 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±12 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Tech/Hand-trap
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 59 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz boss pressure from Zoodiac and K9 Xyz monsters (K9-X Werewolf 3300 ATK, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS 3000 ATK, Super Starslayer TY-PHON 2900 ATK) built from Level 4 and Level 5 material; Piercing and extra-attack damage from Zoodiac Thoroughblade and K9-X Werewolf once material is attached
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Zoodiac Whiptail or Zoodiac Ramram and Speedroid Terrortop to reach a Level 4 two-body Xyz base (Zoodiac Tigermortar, Zoodiac Chakanine, or Zoodiac Drident), then use the Xyz effects for card advantage (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Lock Bird) to interrupt the opponent's first search or Summon, then rebuild a Xyz board from the remaining hand (Inferred)
• Recovery: Use the Graveyard Zoodiac monsters through Zoodiac Ramram and Zoodiac Kataroost recursion and the Zoodiac Barrage Xyz attach, then Fire Formation - Tenki and A Case for K9 for search (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan and no side-deck data

Why it scores here

The deck is scored on its system, not by averaging card scores. Its core Zoodiac engine is reasonably reachable: the archetype core group has about a 0.76 chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and Zoodiac Whiptail, Ramram and Speedroid Terrortop give several starter routes (Inferred). Its strongest trait is interaction: 18 hand traps and 21 negation-text cards give it about a 0.90 chance of at least one hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand, which drives the interaction and going-second scores (Inferred). Closing power comes from several 2900 to 3300 ATK Xyz bosses. Scoring is held down by three things: there is no combo data, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference; only 30 percent of the main deck is exact-name Zoodiac, so engine coherence is spread across K9, Mulcharmy, Dominus and others; and the deck has no Side Deck. Because the list is Illegal (Ash Blossom at 3 copies against a limit of 2), it does not receive a normal Final Contextual score and is capped and labelled structural-only. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54.1, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); no Side Deck (-4); illegal_copy_limit_cap (0). Final formula: Illegal list: no normal Final Contextual score. Structural 54.1 blended as 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) gives about 53.3, then context modifiers total -8, then capped to 35 for illegality.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.76 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.24 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense hand-trap and negation package with strong going-second interaction (Inferred)
• Several Xyz bosses at 2900 to 3300 ATK for closing power (Verified stat)
• Zoodiac core is reachable with about 0.76 chance of at least one core card in hand5 (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2 (Verified)
• Empty Side Deck gives no post-side plan (Verified)
• Low exact-name Zoodiac purity (29.7%) spreads the engine across K9, Mulcharmy and Dominus (Verified)
• No combo data, so the ceiling and median cannot be measured (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Legal copy count: removing one Ash Blossom is required before any normal score applies (Verified)
• Zoodiac Xyz base requires two or more Level 4 monsters in hand or on field (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal legality status: Ash Blossom 3 copies vs 2 legal; Banlist statuses for Limited and Semi-Limited cards; Card text and copy counts; Archetype purity 29.7%; Empty Side Deck
• Inferred: Starter access 0.756 and hand-trap 0.90 estimates; Going-first and going-second plans; Interaction and resilience scores
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup fit
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry, so going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck, so no post-side data