Zombies Deck #773538 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 47/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Link/Xyz
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Call of the Haunted / Pumpking recursion into 2400-2600 ATK Zombie boards, closed by Xyz and Link bosses (Pumpking the Great Ghost King, Vampire Fascinator, W:P Fancy Ball, Yuki-Onna); Wandering Titan of Tartarus and Eldlich-to-Fallen Angel Fusion pressure as a late-game finisher
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Zombie starter (Uni-Zombie, Stare of the Snake Hair, Pumpking the King of Grave Ghosts) and search or summon toward Call of the Haunted and a Level 6 Zombie; accept that the going-first hand has few interaction answers
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 2-3 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll) to stop the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild a board from the graveyard using Army of the Haunted and Changshi
• Recovery: Recover through graveyard effects: Glow-Up Bloom, Gozuki, Changshi, Army of the Haunted and Officiating Reverie-style revival recursion, plus Call of the Haunted reset
• After siding: No side deck is run (0 side cards); post-side adaptation is not available in this format build, so this is rated as a structural gap

Why it scores here

The deck opens a Zombie engine reasonably often, since the core Zombie monsters and searchers are present in multiples, but the Call of the Haunted engine itself is only 2 copies, so a 5-card going-first hand hits it about 24% of the time (Inferred). Its ceiling is a 2400-2600 ATK board recovered from the graveyard by Call of the Haunted and Army of the Haunted, which is credible on a good turn; its median output is much lower because no recorded boards exist and the guide notes it is slow and easily chain-linked. Interaction is real but mostly hand traps (10 copies), which are dead on the opponent's board-less turn and are the main source of brick risk, so the score reflects the system's broad but unfocused interaction rather than any single strong answer. Popularity and archetype usage stats confirm the list is a real, accessible build, but they earned no points on their own, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox noted as secondary, weights not blended. Structural ≈ 52.5, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: unrecoverable choke point (-3); hand-trap brick risk (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*52.5 + 0.20*48 - 5 = 46.6, rounded to 47

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · 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

• Broad interaction across hand traps and negations (10 hand traps, plus Droll & Lock Bird, Forbidden Droplet, Ash Blossom)
• Strong boss bodies at 2400-2900 ATK
• Graveyard recursion (Army of the Haunted, Changshi, Gozuki, Glow-Up Bloom) gives a real grind

Weaknesses

• Only 2 Call of the Haunted, so the engine is inconsistent on the opening hand
• 10 hand traps create brick risk and dead cards on going first
• No side deck and no evidence of post-side adaptation
• Guide notes slowness and vulnerability to chain-link interruption

Critical choke points

• Call of the Haunted (2 copies) as the engine trigger for Pumpking and Army of the Haunted

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck legality: 40 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side within Master Duel size rules; no violations; Banlist: Foolish Burial and Maxx "C" Limited at 1 copy; Droll & Lock Bird Semi-Limited at 2 copies; Card stats and text for all listed cards; Usage stats: Call of the Haunted core present at 2 copies
• Observed: No combo boards recorded (combo data total 0)
• Inferred: Starter access: P(>=1 Call of the Haunted in 5-card hand) ~ 0.24; Brick and dead-hand risk from hand traps; Interaction density and resilience estimates from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null): no dated metagame sample supplied; Matchup fit (D13): no tournament or matchup data
• 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: going-first/second, matchup, brick and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck: post-side plan cannot be evaluated