K9 Deck #772609 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: K9 Xyz boss monsters (K9-X Ripper/M, K9-X Werewolf line, K9-17 Ripper) built through K9 searchers and Xyz Summons from the Extra Deck; Radiant Typhoon Link/Xyz support and piercing or multi-attack Xyz finishers
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening searcher (A Case for K9, K9-66a Jokul, K9-66b Lantern or Radiant Typhoon Swen) into a Level 5 Xyz or Quick-Play Spell, with Mystical Space Typhoon or Crossout Designator to clear a backrow blocker
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll and Maxx C for the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild a K9 Xyz from the hand and GY with K9-X Forced Release or K9-LC Release Restraint
• Recovery: Searchers (Radiant Typhoon Eldam, Radiant Typhoon Chant, K9-17 Izuna) and the Level 5 K9 monsters in the GY and Deck refill the hand; Lupis and Hound re-create board presence
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0)

Why it scores here

The deck's engine is dense: about 20 searcher-text cards and a 17-copy K9 core give a 0.95 chance of at least one core card in the opening five (Inferred), so it reliably opens a live plan. Its conversion has a real ceiling, since K9 Xyz bosses with piercing, multi-attack and destruction effects can close, but no recorded boards exist, so the floor and median are scored from text only and kept modest. Interaction is broad (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Crossout Designator, Mystical Space Typhoon), but the Radiant Typhoon and K9 split and the lack of a Side Deck hold resilience and adaptability down. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction on the system, not from K9 being a popular archetype and not from averaging the card scores. Because the list is illegal (three over-limit cards, one of them Forbidden), the result is capped and is structural and theoretical only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) = 54; modifiers total -12 gives 42; capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal, so the result is theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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

• High searcher density (about 20 cards) and a 17-copy K9 core make the engine reliably live
• Broad hand-trap and negation suite (Ash Blossom, Droll, Maxx C, Crossout Designator)
• Extra Deck carries several strong K9 Xyz bosses with destruction or piercing effects

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Forbidden K9-04 Noroi x2 and three over-limit Limited/Semi-Limited cards
• Split identity between K9 and Radiant Typhoon (13 off-archetype copies)
• No Side Deck and no recorded boards, so adaptability and ceiling are unverified

Critical choke points

• Opening searcher access depends on a few K9 searchers (A Case for K9, K9-66a Jokul) that are Limited
• Xyz Summons need Level 5 monsters in hand or GY; a hand disruption hits the whole engine

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 40 and Extra Deck 15, within OCG size rules; Side Deck 0; Three copy-limit violations and one Forbidden card (legality check); Archetype purity 38.2 percent (21 of 55 copies in exact K9 name); K9 core group 0.949 in opening five (hypergeometric)
• Observed: No recorded boards; no observed combo or brick frequency exists
• Inferred: Midrange primary strategy from text and composition, with no combo evidence to break ties; Structural dimensions D1 to D11 and D14 from text and probability; Hand-trap and interaction read from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit, pending a dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No win-rate, going-first/second or brick telemetry exists for YGOVN Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null in the export