Despia Deck #757385 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Midrange
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Level 8 boss monsters (Albion the Branded Dragon, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Mirrorjade) through Fallen of Albaz and Branded Fusion chains; Recursive Fusion pressure from Branded Banishment and Albion GY effects, with Despian Quaeritis as a board-wide ATK reset
• Turn 1 (going first): Branded Opening or Nadir Servant to find a Fallen of Albaz or Branded Fusion, then Fusion Summon a boss through Fallen of Albaz (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Droll and Lock Bird, Evenly Matched, Branded Retribution, Solemn Judgment) to stop the opponent's first play, then the same Fusion line from the hand (Inferred)
• Recovery: Return Fallen of the White Dragon and Albion from the GY through Ecclesia and Branded Banishment effects (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan (Verified: 0 side cards)

Why it scores here

This list reliably opens a searcher line: P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.87 across 18 searcher-text cards, and the archetype core has about 0.99 opening access (Inferred from hypergeometric estimates). Conversion into a boss monster depends on a multi-step Fusion chain (Fallen of Albaz, Branded Fusion, Albion) whose ceiling is plausible from card text but has no recorded boards to confirm it, so the ceiling and median stay Inferred. Interaction is broad (9 negation-text and 14 removal-text cards, including Solemn Judgment, Solemn Accusation, Branded Retribution, and Called by the Grave), and that breadth earns the largest share of points. The deck loses points for 7 percent exact archetype purity across 14 sub-archetype names, 9 tech and 4 hand-trap slots that dilute the opening, and the complete absence of a side deck. Popularity did not earn points: the usage statistics only confirm that the list resembles real Despia builds, and card scores were not averaged. The list is illegal on two copy limits, so the score is capped as theoretical and structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Toolbox secondary (Combo weights used; no blend applied). Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-3); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*60 + 0.20*50 = 58; context modifiers total -5 gives 53; Illegal legality (copy-limit violations) caps the final at 35 as theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · 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

• Dense searcher density (18 text cards) gives high opening access to the archetype core
• Broad interaction package with negation and removal across Solemn, Branded, and hand-trap cards
• Fusion boss pool offers multiple 2500 to 3800 ATK threats with recursion options

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: The Fallen & The Virtuous and Super Polymerization are each run 3 times against a Semi-Limited limit of 2
• No side deck (0 side cards), so no post-side adaptation
• Low exact-archetype purity (7 percent) and 14 sub-archetype names reduce engine coherence
• Multi-step Fusion chains are fragile and demanding to pilot

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz on the field or in hand is the single key to most Fusion lines
• Branded Fusion is Limited (1 copy), so one dead or missed copy removes the main Fusion route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 2 cards over copy limit (The Fallen & The Virtuous, Super Polymerization); Main 56 and Extra 15 within size rules; Side 0; Usage stats show the list is a real Despia build (28 stat rows)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening access (searcher 0.87, core 0.99); Combo ceiling and floor read from card text only; Interaction quality from text roles; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no tournament link or dated meta sample); Meta Power (null)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; 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 and going-second splits are Inferred no side deck; post-side plan cannot be evaluated Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied