K9 Deck #773262 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: K9 Xyz and Link boards (K9-X Werewolf is not run; K9-17 Ripper, K9-66a Jokul, K9-00 Lupis and Vanquish Soul boss monsters such as Caesar Valius) converting searcher-driven advantage into attacks; Vanquish Soul recursion and Xyz/Link extra-deck boards (Number C107 Neo Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon, Super Starslayer TY-PHON)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a K9 or Vanquish Soul starter with the searcher-dense monster set, then Normal Summon a Level 5 K9 into a Xyz or Link line; hand traps are held for the opponent's turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Ash Blossom and Maxx C (both Limited or Semi-Limited) plus Metal Illusionist and Veidos as interaction, then rebuild the field with Vanquish Soul revival
• Recovery: Vanquish Soul - Continue? and Vanquish Soul, Start! return monsters to hand or revive them from the GY, and K9 searchers rebuild the hand
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists in this export

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal: K9-04 Noroi is Forbidden in OCG and is run once, so the score is capped and the evaluation is structural-only. Its engine is searcher-dense (92% chance of at least one searcher in an opening 5-card hand) and draws on two archetype groups, K9 and Vanquish Soul, which overlap only partially (exact-name purity 14.3%, with 60 off-archetype copies), so the engine is only partly coherent. Interaction is light: three hand traps and about 14 removal-text cards, with a Side Deck of zero. Closing power is the strongest axis because the Extra Deck carries several 3000+ ATK bosses, but there are no recorded boards to show a ceiling or a median. The score comes from consistency, closing power and interaction read on the system; the archetype's popularity (core-card presence 46%) earned no points, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Balanced (default; no combo evidence to justify a strategy profile). Structural ≈ 46, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); illegal cap (-15). Final formula: Pre-cap: 0.80*46 + 0.20*40 = 44.8 (Meta provisional, banlist modifier -6 applied → 40). Illegal status caps the final score at 25; theoretical/structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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 gives a high chance of finding a starter (92% for at least one searcher in an opening 5)
• Extra Deck carries multiple 3000+ ATK bosses, including Number C107 at 4500 ATK
• Three hand traps plus removal-text cards give some interaction

Weaknesses

• Illegal: K9-04 Noroi is Forbidden and run once
• Low exact-name archetype purity (14.3%) with 60 off-archetype copies
• No Side Deck
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Noroi is the only illegal card; removing it is a prerequisite for any normal score
• Hand-trap coverage rests on three cards (Ash Blossom x2 and Maxx C), with a 29.8% chance of one going second

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: K9-04 Noroi (Forbidden) run once, over the 0 legal copies; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; Side is 0; Limited and Semi-Limited cards are within their legal copy counts; Exact-name archetype purity is 14.3%
• Observed: No recorded combo boards exist for this deck
• Inferred: P(≥1 searcher in opening 5) ≈ 0.92; Opening-hand brick rate is elevated because of 23 singleton slots; Interaction density from removal and negation text (14 and 3 cards)
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link; Side-deck adaptability: no side cards
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck registered, so best-of-3 adaptation cannot be assessed Deck has no title (Deck.Title is null)