K9 Deck #772660 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: K9 Xyz bosses (K9-X Werewolf 3300 ATK, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS 3000 ATK, Number C104 Umbral Horror Masquerade Victory 3000 ATK) reached through hand-trap-protected summons; Dark Time Wizard and Mulcharmy card advantage and recursion, plus Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed as a Fusion finisher
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a K9 or Dark Time Wizard starter (about 81% for at least one core card in a 5-card hand), search with Case for K9 or Fire Formation - Tenki, and build toward an Xyz; hand traps stay in hand for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's hand-trap density (about 89% to hold at least one hand trap) to answer the opponent's board, then Normal Summon K9 monsters that need no tribute
• Recovery: Recover through Foolish Graverobber, Droll and Lock Bird, and Mulcharmy draws; this is textual and unmeasured
• After siding: None: the list runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal as built: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and K9-17 Izuna are each run three times against an OCG limit of two, so the score is capped and the evaluation is structural-only. Its structural read comes from the system, not from averaging card scores: about 81% of hands hold at least one archetype-core card, about 89% of going-second hands hold a hand trap, and the Xyz bosses carry strong interaction (Inferred). The deck runs three engines (K9, Dark Time Wizard, Mulcharmy) with only 15.7% exact-name K9 purity, which lowers engine cohesion and pilotability. There are no recorded boards, no side deck and no tournament record, so floor, median and meta are unmeasured. Archetype popularity earned no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: engine_conflict (-4); no_side_deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) + modifiers(-6) = 47.6 raw; Illegal cap applied -> 35 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.81 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.19 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered interaction: 16 hand traps, Solemn Judgment, Harpie's Feather Duster, Lightning Storm and Masquerade removal
• High going-second hand-trap density
• Strong Xyz bosses with 3000+ ATK and multiple engine routes
• Full 15-card Extra Deck with the core Xyz and Link cards present

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and K9-17 Izuna each run 3 copies against an OCG limit of 2
• Three engines (K9, Dark Time Wizard, Mulcharmy) with only 15.7% exact K9 purity
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median are unmeasured
• 24 generic cards and 20 tech slots dilute the main deck

Critical choke points

• Copy-limit fix forces Ash Blossom and Izuna down to 2 copies each
• Six Limited single-copy cards (Droll and Lock Bird, Case for K9, Harpie's Feather Duster, K9-66a Jokul, S:P Little Knight, Solemn Judgment) limit redundancy
• K9 Xyz lines depend on Extra Deck summons, so a removed Extra card breaks the core

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and K9-17 Izuna at 3 copies each against OCG limit 2; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; Main and Extra sizes are legal; Six Limited single-copy cards are present; Exact-name K9 purity 15.7%; 11 of 55 main cards are exact K9 names
• Inferred: P(at least one core card in a 5-card hand) about 0.81 and proxy full-brick about 0.19; Hand-trap density for going second about 0.89; Interaction layering and Xyz boss strength from card text
• Provisional: Median output and meta position; no combos or tournament data; Matchup fit and tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling rest on card text only No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No side deck: post-side plan unmeasurable usage_statistics in_this_deck flags mark K9-X Werewolf, N.As.H. Knight, CXyz N.As.Ch. Knight, S:P Little Knight, K9-17 Ripper and Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS as absent, but all six appear in the Extra Deck card list; the card list was used as the source of truth, so the reported 60% core coverage is understated No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup or brick/OTK rates; these are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied