K9 Deck #772308 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 43 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion or Xyz boss from the Extra Deck, chiefly Mementomictlan Tecuhtlica - Creation King (3000 ATK) and Mementoal Tecuhtlica - Combined Creation (5000 ATK), backed by K9 Xyz beatdown (Inferred); K9 Xyz monsters (K9-00 Hound, K9-X Werewolf route absent) and Memento Link/Fusion beaters such as Mementotlan Twin Dragon (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Memento Level 3-5 monster, search a Memento or K9 card with a searcher (15 searcher-text cards, P(at least one in hand of 5) = 0.90), then Fusion or Xyz Summon toward a boss (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand to hold Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence (P(at least one hand trap in 6) = 0.46), then rebuild through Memento recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover from the GY via Mementotlan Ghattic, Mementotlan Akihiron and the Memento GY-to-hand searches; the K9 Xyz route can be re-entered from the Extra Deck (Inferred)
• After siding: None: the deck runs 0 side cards in an OCG format that allows up to 15, so there is no post-side plan (Verified)

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: it opens a live starter often (15 searcher-text cards give about 0.90 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and the archetype core has about 0.75 chance), converts through two Extra Deck engines (Memento Fusion/Creation King and K9 Xyz), and closes with high-ATK bosses (Mementoal Tecuhtlica 5000, Creation King 3000). Its interaction is layered across four hand traps, two Forbidden Droplets, Harpie's Feather Duster and Mementotlan Cranium Burst, which is why end-board and going-second scores sit above the baseline. The score is held down by the 17.2% exact-name purity (Memento 22 copies and K9 10 copies, plus generic and Goblin staples, so two engines compete for the same slots), by the complete absence of recorded boards (combo ceiling and median are text-only Inferred reads), and by an empty side deck. Popularity did not earn points: the K9 usage stats only confirm the list is real, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: engine conflict (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, null)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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 (15 searcher-text cards) makes a live starter likely
• Two Extra Deck engines (Memento Fusion and K9 Xyz) give route redundancy
• Four hand traps and multiple negation effects give layered interaction
• High-ATK bosses (3000 to 5000) close games once a board is established

Weaknesses

• 17.2% exact-name purity: Memento and K9 compete for slots and materials
• No side deck in an OCG format allowing 15
• No recorded boards, so combo ceiling and median are unverified
• Heavy singleton count (18 of 29 distinct cards) raises brick risk

Critical choke points

• Mementoal Tecuhtlica - Combined Creation (1 copy) is the 5000 ATK boss and its Special Summon needs five other differently named Memento monsters
• Mementomictlan (1 copy) and K9-LC Release Restraint (1 copy) are single-copy enablers for their engines

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 43 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within OCG size rules; no copy-limit violations; Banlist: Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts all within legal limits; Card text and stats for the listed cards; Archetype purity 17.2% and the Memento/K9 spread
• Observed: Usage statistics confirm K9 core cards (for example K9-00 Lupis 85%, K9-66a Jokul 80%) are played across the archetype
• Inferred: Starter and brick estimates from hypergeometric draws; Combo ceiling and going-first/second plans from card text; Engine conflict modifier; Interaction density and resilience reads
• Provisional: Meta power (null) and matchup/format fit (D13)
• 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: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied