K9 Deck #772542 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Xyz bosses (Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder, Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis, Number C104) and Main Deck Vanquish Soul Caesar Valius (3000 ATK) once the board is established; Vanquish Soul Rocks / Bystial Druiswurm / Bystial Magnamhut 2500-ATK beaters through a cleared board
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening-hand search and Special Summon from Vanquish Soul / K9 monsters (Dr. Mad Love, Razen, Stake your Soul!, Vanquish Soul, Start!) into Xyz or Link, with hand traps held for the opponent's first activation (text-level read, Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Nibiru, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence) against the opponent's starter, then rebuild through K9 / Vanquish Soul revival and Xyz (text-level read, Inferred)
• Recovery: Re-search through Vanquish Soul searchers and K9-X Forced Release, and use Mulcharmy draw effects when the hand is empty (text-level read, Inferred)
• After siding: Not available: the list runs zero Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This OCG list reliably opens a functional hand: the archetype core group has P(at least one of 15 K9/Vanquish Soul core copies in a 5-card hand) of about 0.81, and searchers appear in about 0.83 of opening hands (hypergeometric, Inferred). Its strongest dimension is end-board interaction, with three Ash Blossom, two Ghost Belle and Infinite Impermanence style negates, Droll & Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster and Dimensional Fissure, giving a going-second hand-trap coverage of about 0.82 (Inferred). Conversion and the median output are weak because there are no recorded boards, no combos and no guides, so the ceiling cannot be measured and the floor is unknown; these dimensions are text-only inference. Popularity did not earn points: the K9 archetype is only 15.7% exact-name purity with 59 off-archetype copies, and the score comes from the system (consistency, interaction, closing bosses) rather than from averaging card scores. The deck is Illegal (three copy-limit violations), so it receives no normal Final Contextual score; the value is capped as a theoretical, structural-only read, and the lack of any side deck further lowers its score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); engine conflicts (-3); no Side Deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal deck: theoretical structural-only value. Structural 52 with Toolbox weights; 0.80*52 + 0.20*45 = 50.6, minus 9 modifiers = 41.6, capped to 35 for Illegal status. Meta Power null (Provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.81 · 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 hand-trap coverage for going second
• Three-copy Vanquish Soul and K9 core that opens a functional hand most of the time
• Multiple 2500-3000 ATK closers in the Main and Extra Decks

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy-limit violations on three cards
• Off-archetype density (59 copies) and seven engines compete for the same slots
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded boards, so conversion and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• K9 / Vanquish Soul starters that must be live in the opening hand
• Xyz material availability for the Extra Deck bosses

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 are within OCG size rules (40-60, 0-15, 0-15); Three copy-limit violations: Ash Blossom x3 (limit 2), Vanquish Soul Razen x3 (limit 1), K9-17 Izuna x3 (limit 2); Banlist statuses for the 13 restricted cards; Card stats and Extra Deck breakdown (12 Xyz, 3 Link)
• Inferred: Core and searcher draw probabilities (hypergeometric); Interaction density and going-second hand-trap coverage; Strategy classification as Toolbox with Midrange and Stun secondary; Dimension scores D1-D11 and D14 from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null: no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13) and side adaptability (D12)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry for OCG going-first/second, matchup or brick rate Deck title is null Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed