K9 Deck #773209 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 22/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 10 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz/Link board pressure from K9-X Ripper/M (3100 ATK, piercing) and the Vanquish Soul / Caesar Valius beatsticks, enabled by K9 and Vanquish Soul starters.; Hand-trap-supported disruption (Ash Blossom, Artifact Lancea, Anti-Spell Fragrance) that trades for the opponent's first engine and lets the Extra Deck boss land.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon K9-66a Jokul or K9-17 Izuna (no tribute, opponent has 2+ cards), search the second K9 or Vanquish Soul, then Xyz or Link into a boss. Deck-search density is high, so the T1 plan is usually a 2-card starter bootstrap (Inferred).
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Artifact Lancea (or Dimension Shifter, which is illegal in this list) for the opponent's first engine, then rebuild a board from Mulcharmy draws and the Vanquish Soul hand-revealed Special Summons (Inferred).
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Meowls draw on opponent Special Summons, and Vanquish Soul Start / Jiaolong / Dr. Mad Love search the next starter. Recovery depends on the Mulcharmy engine being alive (Inferred).
• After siding: Not evaluable: the side deck is empty. Any best-of-3 plan has to be built from scratch, and the list must first be cut to legal copies.

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal (9 cards over the OCG copy limit, 3 of them Forbidden), so it does not receive a normal Final Contextual score. The 22 is a capped figure that reflects the theoretical, structural-only read of the system. The deck reliably opens a K9 or Vanquish Soul starter (P(>=1 of a 3-copy card in a 5-card hand) is 0.25, and P(>=1 K9 core card) is 0.86, Inferred). It converts that into Xyz/Link pressure with a high ceiling (K9-X Ripper/M 3100 ATK, Caesar Valius 3000 ATK), and hand traps give it some interaction. The score does not come from K9 being a popular archetype, and it does not come from averaging card scores; the cap is what keeps an illegal list from being rated as playable. Most of the deck's interaction and consistency depends on 3-copy cards that would have to be cut by 10 copies and 3 forbidden slots, so the legal version is a different deck with an empty side deck.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 47, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); weak post-side plan (-2); illegal-list cap (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(53) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(38) = 50; context modifiers -8 gives 42; Illegal cap (rubric Step 2) sets the Final to 22, theoretical/structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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 K9 and Vanquish Soul search (about 21 searcher-text cards) gives high starter reliability.
• Hand-trap suite (Ash Blossom, Artifact Lancea, Anti-Spell Fragrance) gives going-second interaction.
• Strong Extra Deck closing power (K9-X Ripper/M, Caesar Valius, Super Starslayer, Divine Arsenal).

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 9 over-limit copies and 3 Forbidden cards.
• No side deck, so there is no post-side plan.
• Low main-deck compactness: 28 distinct main cards, with 13 copies of 3-copy cards that would be cut.

Critical choke points

• Mulcharmy draw engine depends on the opponent's Special Summons; the list has no reliable substitute if the Mulcharmy line is answered.
• Whole K9 and Vanquish Soul starter count depends on the 3-copy searchers, which are the cards over the limit.
• Extra Deck Xyz/Link material requirements (K9 starters) are a single-route dependency.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal: 9 copy-limit violations, 3 Forbidden cards, Limited/Semi-Limited copy counts.; Main 55 and Extra 15 are inside the OCG size rules; side deck 0 is legal.; Hypergeometric draw probabilities from the Main Deck list.
• Observed: Usage statistics show K9 core cards (K9-Lupis 83.5%, K9-66a Jokul 81.0%) in archetype lists.
• Inferred: Starter-bootstrap and going-first/second plans from card text.; Brick rate and hand-trap coverage estimates.; Interaction and resilience reads from card text.
• Provisional: Meta fit (D13) and Meta Power; no dated metagame sample exists.
• Data gaps: Data conflict: usage_statistics marks K9-X "Werewolf", K9-17 "Ripper", N.As.H. Knight and CXyz N.As.Ch. Knight as in_this_deck:false, but the cards array lists them in the Extra Deck (Werewolf 1, Ripper 2, N.As.H. 1, CXyz 1). The Extra-Deck composition could not be reconciled with usage data. No combos supplied, so 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 (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates). Side deck is empty, so D12 cannot be measured. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied.