Maliss Deck #751379 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Link
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 47 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 8 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Maliss and Code Talker Link monsters (Red Ransom, Hearts Crypter, Accesscode Talker) and push ATK through the opponent's board; Banish-based Bystial Druiswurm and Magnamhut lines that Special Summon from the GY and hand after hand-trap interaction
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Maliss monster (March Hare or Chessy Cat), recycle Maliss through the GY, and Link Summon toward a Link-3 or Link-4 finisher; hold Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Belle, Dominus Impulse) to break the opponent's Special Summon or Link line, then rebuild with Maliss recursion
• Recovery: Banish Maliss cards from the GY through Maliss in Underground, TB-11 and MTP-07 to re-add Maliss monsters and traps
• After siding: Not available: the side deck is empty (0 of 15), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This deck is scored as a connected system, not as an average of its card scores. Its engine is reliable on paper: the 24-copy Maliss and Dominus core gives about a 98% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, so the deck usually finds a first play. Interaction is the strongest part of the list, with Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Dominus Impulse covering both going-first and going-second disruption. Three things pull the score down: the list is illegal (an Extra Deck of 16 over the 15 cap, three Forbidden cards, and four cards over their copy limits), it has no side deck, and no recorded boards exist to measure the real combo floor or median. Archetype popularity was not used to earn points, and the illegal status caps the final score at 30 as a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); no side deck (-4); over-limit Extra Deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(56) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) = 53, plus modifiers -12 = 41, then capped at 30 as theoretical/structural-only (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a 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

• Strong hand-trap suite (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Belle, Dominus Impulse) that covers both turns
• High archetype core consistency: about 98% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand
• Maliss recursion through the GY and traps gives some resource recovery

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: an Extra Deck of 16 over the cap, three Forbidden cards, and four cards over their copy limits
• No side deck, so no post-side plan for best-of-3
• Roughly 13 tech and hand-trap slots plus 48 off-archetype copies lower engine density
• No recorded combo data, so the floor, median and ceiling are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• The Maliss Link Monster line depends on having a Maliss monster in hand or GY to Link Summon
• Forbidden cards (Protectcode Talker, Called by the Grave, Dimension Shifter) cannot be played as built
• A single missing Maliss Trap or Maliss monster in the opening hand can stop the Link chain

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal: Extra Deck 16 over the 15 cap; Three Forbidden cards in the list (Called by the Grave, Dimension Shifter, Protectcode Talker); Copy-limit violations for Allure of Darkness, Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Dominus Impulse; Side deck empty (0 of 15); Card text of the 27 distinct main-deck and 16 Extra Deck cards
• Observed: Archetype core present in the usage statistics (14 of 25 core cards present)
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability (about 0.98 for the core group); Hand-trap interaction density and going-second plan; Structural dimension scores D1 to D11 and D14
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13); Combo floor and median (D4)
• 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 and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Deck title is null; the side deck is empty Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied