Zoodiac Deck #773607 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Quick-Play-triggered Radiant Typhoon special summons into 3000-ATK and 2200-ATK boss monsters (Fonix, Krosea), with Zoodiac and Link Xyz/Link extras as secondary closers; Link and Xyz extra-deck boards (Varuroon Marine, Ulti-Reirautari, Saryuja, F0 Draco, AA-Zeus) built off Radiant and Zoodiac material
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with searchers (Swen, Eldam, Chant, Krosea) to fetch Mystical Space Typhoon or a Radiant boss, then use Quick-Play spells to special summon Radiant monsters and build a Link or Xyz board while holding Ash Blossom and Maxx C for the opponent's first search or summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Maxx C and Dominus Purge in hand to answer the opponent's board, then use Forbidden Droplet or Mystical Space Typhoon to clear backrow and rebuild a Radiant summon line
• Recovery: Recur Radiant Typhoon Ascendance, Manifestation and Chant from the Graveyard or Deck via Mystical Space Typhoon, and rebuild with Mulcharmy Fuwalos draw effects and Zoodiac Ramram
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: its 13 searchers give an 88% chance of at least one searcher in the opening 5-card hand, which makes engine access the strongest consistency signal. Mystical Space Typhoon is the key choke point, with only a 34% chance of appearing in a going-first opening hand, so the Quick-Play engine depends on a single card class that is often absent early. Interaction is layered: Ash Blossom and Maxx C cover the opponent's first actions, while Dominus Purge, Forbidden Droplet, Radiant Typhoon Varuroon and Mandate cover the mid-game and going-second boards. Offensive closing comes from high-ATK bosses (Fonix 3000, Krosea 2200, Saryuja 2800, Draco 3000), which are present but depend on the engine going live. No combo boards, tournament link, meta-share or side deck were supplied, so the score does not reward popularity, the archetype's usage statistics, or an average of card scores, and it carries the absence of a side deck as a real cost.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63.5, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Radiant core coherence (2); Unrecoverable choke point (-2); Off-engine dilution (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-2) = 0.80*63.5 + 0.20*58 - 2 = 60.4, rounded to 60

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• 13 searchers give high engine access in the opening hand (0.88)
• Radiant Typhoon engine is coherent, with 19 cards that synergise through Quick-Play triggers and recursion
• Layered interaction: Ash x3, Maxx C, Dominus Purge x3, Forbidden Droplet x2 and Varuroon Vortex
• Strong closing bosses (Fonix 3000, Draco 3000, AA-Zeus 3000, Saryuja 2800)

Weaknesses

• No side deck registered, so no post-side adaptation
• Mystical Space Typhoon is a single-point dependency for many Quick-Play and summon conditions
• Off-engine cards (Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Dominus Purge) dilute the Radiant and Zoodiac core
• No recorded boards or tournament data, so the floor and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Mystical Space Typhoon x3: about 34% of going-first opening hands; gates the Quick-Play summon conditions
• Searcher density: 13 searchers, but several require a Radiant or Quick-Play resource to reach the boss

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; all restricted cards within legal copy limits; Banlist: Maxx C, Radiant Typhoon Vision and Zoodiac Broadbull are Limited and run 1 copy each; Radiant Typhoon Chant, Eldam, Super Polymerization and Zoodiac Ratpier are Semi-Limited and run 2 copies each; Composition: 21 distinct main names; 14 distinct Extra names with 15 Extra copies
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher in hand of 5) = 0.88 from the supplied hypergeometric estimate; P(at least one Mystical Space Typhoon in hand of 5) = 0.34; Ash/Maxx C/Dominus Purge/Varuroon Vortex interaction density from card text; Radiant engine coherence and recursion routes from card text; Boss ATK values from card stats
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability (no tournament link); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick and OTK rates) Meta power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck registered (side count 0), so the side deck and post-side plan cannot be evaluated Usage statistics mark Extra Deck cards (Broadbull, Chakanine, Drident, Boarbow, Varuroon Marine, F0 Draco/Future, AA-Zeus, M-X-Saber) as in_this_deck:false, but the cards array lists them in zone extra; the usage flags for Extra cards are unreliable and were not used for scoring