K9 Deck #773459 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Normal-Summon and Xyz pressure from K9 and Vanquish Soul bodies (Izuna, Jiaolong, Caesar Valius, Heavy Borger) backed by hand-trap protection; Extra Deck Xyz boards (K9-17 Ripper, Vanquish Soul Rocks, K9 Lupis/Lantern follow-ups) once the field is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Level 5 K9 or Vanquish Soul monster, use Vanquish Soul searchers to reach the second engine piece, then Xyz or Link into a board
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll and Ghost Belle as hand traps to stop the opponent's first engine play, then deploy K9 or Vanquish Soul monsters through the resulting window
• Recovery: Searchers (Vanquish Soul Start, Stake your Soul, K9 Case, Reinforcement) rebuild the hand; Mulcharmy draws punish the opponent for summoning
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck's engine is a combined K9 and Vanquish Soul shell with 20 core copies. The probability of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand is about 0.91, so the engine usually comes online early (Inferred). Interaction is layered through several hand traps, Solemn Judgment and Solemn Strike, and Dimensional Fissure, which gives the list a real Going-Second plan. Consistency and the output ceiling are not measured: the export contains no recorded combos, so the combo scores are text-only inference. The list is illegal as submitted: three copies each of Ash Blossom, K9-17 Izuna and Vanquish Soul Razen exceed their copy limits, and the deck runs no Side Deck. Under the rubric, the score is capped at 35 and is structural only. Popularity of the K9 archetype did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 80 Midrange / 20 Stun. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-9); no side deck (-3). Final formula: Illegal deck: 0.80*Structural(56) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) + ContextModifiers(-12) = 42.8, then capped at 35 for an Illegal list (theoretical/structural only). Meta is provisional and excluded.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.09 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype-core density (20 K9 and Vanquish Soul copies) gives a 0.91 chance of at least one starter in opening 5
• Layered interaction: hand traps, Solemn Judgment and Solemn Strike, and Dimensional Fissure
• Redundant searchers and draw bodies (19 searcher-text cards, Mulcharmy draws) support recovery

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three cards over their copy limits, which must be fixed before the list is playable
• No Side Deck, so there is no adaptation for best-of-3 play
• Low archetype purity (18.6% exact-name), with 57 off-archetype copies across overlapping sub-archetypes

Critical choke points

• Starter access depends on the 20 archetype-core copies; a single hand with no core card is a full brick (about 9%)
• Hand-trap timing: Ash Blossom and Droll are the main answers to the opponent's first engine play, and both are over or constrained in the list

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: three cards exceed copy limits (Ash Blossom 3/2, K9-17 Izuna 3/2, Vanquish Soul Razen 3/1); Main Deck is 55 cards and Extra Deck is 15 cards, both within the TCG size rules; Side Deck is 0 cards; Exact-name archetype purity is 18.6%, with 57 off-archetype copies
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability of about 0.91 from the hypergeometric estimate; Interaction density and layering read from card text (negation, removal, hand-trap roles); Output ceiling and median are inferred from text only, since no combos are recorded
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (D13) because no dated metagame sample or tournament link is supplied
• Data gaps: No recorded combos; the 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 going-first, going-second, matchups, or brick rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null, so the list cannot be identified beyond its archetype