Zombies Deck #88700 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 29/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 43 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Chaos Angel, Borreload Savage Dragon, Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon Lord, Draco Berserker) once a Zombie board is established; Recursion of Zombie monsters from the GY through Zombie World, Necroworld Banshee, Glow-Up Bloom and Samurai Skull
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Zombie-enabling starter (Zombie Master, Uni-Zombie, Samurai Skull), search or recur with Glow-Up Bloom or Reasoning, then Synchro or Link into a boss; the opening hand is only functional about one time in three (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Hand Destruction, Harpie's Feather Duster or Monster Reborn to answer the opponent's board, then rebuild with Zombie World and recursion; no recorded board supports this line (Inferred)
• Recovery: Banshee banish-to-activate Zombie World, Zombie Master GY revival and Glow-Up Bloom GY searches are the main recovery routes (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated; the list cannot be sided in a best-of-3 as built

Why it scores here

This deck is scored as a connected system and was capped low because its Main Deck runs Chaos Ruler, a Forbidden card, at one copy, which makes the list illegal in Master Duel. Its key starters (Zombie Master, Uni-Zombie, Zombie World) are three-copy cards that each appear in the opening hand only about 32% of the time, and 20 Spell Cards plus 58 off-archetype copies make the engine thin and brick-prone. The Extra Deck is the strongest part, with several 8 to 10 Level Synchros and Links that give high closing power, and Banshee plus Glow-Up Bloom provide some recursion. There is no recorded board data, no tournament record, and no side deck, so the median output, going-second plan and post-side plan could not be measured. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points; the card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox primary, 1 secondary disclosed; weights not blended numerically. Structural ≈ 42, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 38, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); brick_and_spell_density (-3). Final formula: Illegal deck: theoretical only. 0.80*Structural(42) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(30) = 39.6, then modifiers -11 = 29 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.32 · 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

• Legal size and a high-impact Extra Deck with 3000+ ATK bosses
• Recursion through Zombie World, Banshee and Glow-Up Bloom
• Some hand disruption and Spell removal through Feather Duster and Hand Destruction

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Chaos Ruler is a Forbidden card
• Only 23 distinct main-deck cards, with 58 off-archetype copies and no exact-name core
• No side deck, so the best-of-3 plan is undefined
• Low copy counts for the key starters (about 32% opening-hand access)

Critical choke points

• Zombie World must be live for the Banshee and Glow-Up Bloom lines
• Zombie Master and Uni-Zombie access via 3-copy hand odds

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 43 and Extra 15 are within the Master Duel size rules (0 side); Chaos Ruler is Forbidden with 0 legal copies and 1 copy run; Foolish Burial, Harpie's Feather Duster, Monster Reborn, One for One and Predaplant Verte Anaconda are Limited at 1 copy each (legal); Extra Deck: 7 Synchro, 7 Link, 1 Fusion
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.32 for 3-copy cards on going-first 5-card hands; Brick risk from 20 Spell Cards and 58 off-archetype copies; Recursion and interaction are estimated from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample was supplied; Archetype usage is context only
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are unknown no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot records are absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup rates are unknown no side deck registered, so post-side plan cannot be scored Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied