Deck K9 #718474 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 66/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Control
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Control via hand traps, floodgate, and attribute‑based disruption; Flexible special‑summon engine using K9 and Vanquish Soul monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Play hand traps, set up K9 monsters với "A Case for K9", search key pieces and establish 1 protected board
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps, Forbidden Droplet, Harpie's Feather Duster and Dimension Shifter to break opponent boards, then summon Vanquish Soul monsters for pressure
• Recovery: Searchers (Reinforcement of the Army, Triple Tactics Talent) and draw engines (Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Pot of Prosperity) to refill resources after disruption
• After siding: No side deck; rely on remaining hand traps and flexible extra‑deck summons to adapt

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably thanks to 1 97.7% chance of drawing at least one core starter and 1 very low brick rate (2.3%). Its hand‑trap suite and floodgate give strong early interaction and resilience to disruption, while searchers and draw engines keep resources flowing. Though it lacks 1 focused combo line, the flexible special‑summon engine lets it adapt to many board states and apply pressure in both go‑first and go‑second scenarios. The absence of 1 side deck and the moderate complexity keep the overall power around the mid‑60s, reflecting solid control capability but limited consistency in high‑damage finishes.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 70, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 68. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.80Structural + 0.20TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening 1 starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two‑card combo ≈ — · full‑brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board‑per‑starter —
• Turn order: 0 going‑first lines vs 0 going‑second lines

Strengths

• Very high opening‑hand consistency
• Extensive hand‑trap and floodgate suite
• Multiple searchers and draw engines for recovery
• Flexible special‑summon options across K9 and Vanquish Soul

Weaknesses

• Low exact‑archetype purity; many off‑archetype tech cards
• No side deck limits adaptability after side‑step
• Complex decision tree với many attribute reveals
• Lack of 1 clear high‑damage combo ceiling

Critical choke points

• Reliance on K9 monsters to trigger the main engine
• Need to reveal correct attributes for Vanquish Soul effects

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Legal; Card copy limits from restricted_cards; Archetype core group probability values
• Inferred: Engine accessibility from core probability; Brick estimate from proxy probability; Combo potential from card text; Resilience from hand‑trap count; Resource economy from draw/search cards; Interaction quality from negation tags; Going‑second power from hand‑trap group probability; Main‑deck efficiency from purity stats; Extra‑deck efficiency from breakdown counts; Pilotability from attribute‑reveal mechanics
• Provisional: Matchup coverage due to missing tournament 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 exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless 1 dated metagame sample is supplied