Zombies Deck #85079 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 22/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Psychic End Punisher, The Zombie Vampire, Dragonecro Nethersoul Dragon, Doomking Balerdroch in the Main Deck) reached through Zombie recursion and Zombie World; Link and Synchro board presence from the Extra Deck (Knightmare, Vampire Sucker, Clear Wing, Baronne de Fleur)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Zombie World plus a Zombie engine card (Mezuki, Gozuki, Changshi, Uni-Zombie) and hold Ash Blossom or Maxx C for the opponent's first activation; the Forbidden Exchange of the Spirit cards cannot be part of this plan in a legal build
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand traps (Ash Blossom x2, Maxx C x3) to disrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Zombie GY recursion; the Forbidden Called by the Grave line is not available in a legal build
• Recovery: Recover from the GY via Mezuki, Gozuki and Necroworld Banshee, which can banish themselves to re-summon Zombies or activate Zombie World again
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in Master Duel: seven copies of Forbidden or Limited cards are run above their legal limits, including Called by the Grave x2, Kelbek x2 and Maxx C x3, so it does not receive a normal Final Contextual score and is capped at 22 as a theoretical, structural-only read. The system reads as a Zombie midrange shell with Zombie World, GY recursion through Mezuki, Gozuki and Necroworld Banshee, five hand traps, and a large Extra Deck of bosses, which gives it a plausible resilience and closing structure on paper. Consistency is weak: the archetype core (the Zombies and Exchange of the Spirit cards that would make the engine reliable) is mostly absent, 57 copies are off-archetype, and the archetype core group has only about a 62% chance of at least one card in the opening five. No recorded combo boards exist, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences rather than measured outputs. Popularity and the guide mentions of the Pumpking Zombies deck did not earn any points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 40, Going First ≈ 38, Going Second ≈ 36, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(40) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(30) = 38; modifiers total -12 (banlist exposure) = 26; Illegal legality caps the final score at 22

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.62 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.38 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Five hand traps (Ash Blossom x2, Maxx C x3 in the list) give cheap interaction on both turns
• Zombie World plus GY recursion (Mezuki, Gozuki, Banshee) gives a repeatable engine after disruption
• Several Extra Deck bosses at 2800 to 3500 ATK give real closing power

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: six Forbidden and three Limited cards are over the legal copy limits
• Weak archetype purity: 57 off-archetype copies and no exact-name Zombies core
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combos, so the deck's real output is unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Zombie World is the only field engine, and a single removal or Nibiru-style reset ends the recursion plan
• Going-second Called by the Grave line depends on Forbidden cards that cannot be played in a legal build

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, six Forbidden and three Limited copy violations; Main 42 and Extra 15 are within size rules; side is 0; Card text and stats from the evidence pack; Composition counts (57 off-archetype copies, 5 hand traps, 20 removal-text hits)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand odds (archetype core group 0.62); Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Dimension scores D1-D11 and D14; Structural score 40 and modifier -12
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN, so matchup and turn-order results are Inferred or Unknown No Side Deck registered Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied