Maliss Deck #759528 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 8 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Monster pressure (Maliss Link Monsters such as Hearts Crypter and Red Ransom, plus Bystial and Charmer boss Links) with Maliss banish-and-search engine; Going-second Bystial Druiswurm, Magnamhut and Saronir removal-to-Special-Summon lines into Link boards (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Maliss Main Deck monster (March Hare, Chessy Cat or Dormouse) with Dormouse or Chessy Cat, then Link Summon a Maliss Link; Inferred, unverified because the forbidden and over-limit copies would be removed in a legal build
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru) against the opponent's first Link or Synchro, then Bystial Special Summon into a Link board (Inferred)
• Recovery: Maliss Traps and Spells (Maliss in the Mirror, MTP-07, TB-11) add Maliss monsters back from the Deck and GY; Inferred from text only
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This is an illegal list, so the score is a capped structural read and not a normal Final Contextual score. The Maliss core (Chessy Cat, March Hare, Dormouse) gives about 60 percent odds of at least one archetype core card in a 5-card opening hand (hypergeometric, Inferred), but the 16-card Extra Deck exceeds the TCG limit of 15. Seven copy-limit violations and three Forbidden cards (Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent, Charmer Quartet in Bloom) would be removed in any legal build, which would weaken the list. Eleven hand traps and about 29 removal-text cards produce real interaction density (Inferred from text), so D7 scores highest. Archetype popularity was not credited: only 22 percent of copies match the exact Maliss name, and the score was not averaged from card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Combo secondary, disclosed but not blended numerically. Structural ≈ 43, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 35, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); Engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap: theoretical/structural-only. Structural 43 and TR 30 give 0.80*43 + 0.20*30 = 40.4 before modifiers; the modifiers total -12 (28), and the illegal cap sets the final score to 25.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.6 · 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 interaction: 11 hand traps and about 29 removal-text cards (Inferred from text)
• Real archetype core: 9 Maliss core copies with about 60 percent hand-5 access (Inferred)
• Boss Link Monsters at 2300 to 2500 ATK for closing (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Extra Deck 16 over the 15 limit, seven copy-limit violations, three Forbidden cards
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Low exact-name purity (22 percent) with many sub-archetypes competing for slots
• No recorded combos, so the floor and median output cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Maliss Link Summon: the engine stops without a live Maliss Link, and the core is one Link-Summon route (Inferred)
• Forbidden cards removed in a legal build would remove key lines and force a rebuild, so the current evaluation does not describe a legal deck

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 56 cards and Extra Deck 16 cards; Extra Deck exceeds the TCG limit of 15; Seven copy-limit violations; three Forbidden cards run (Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent, Charmer Quartet in Bloom); Exact-name purity 22.2 percent (16 of 56 off-archetype copies)
• Inferred: Core-access probability about 0.60 for one archetype core card in hand of 5; Interaction density from 11 hand traps and about 29 removal-text cards; Going-first and going-second plans from card text and hypergeometric odds
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample; no tournament link); Side Deck adaptability (no Side Deck)
• 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 for going-first/second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck: post-side plan cannot be evaluated