Despia Deck #759638 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion-summon a high-ATK Dragon (Albion the Shrouded/Branded, Hyperinvoked Aeon, Mixousia, Mirrorjade) off the Fallen of Albaz material chain, then attack through a small board; Synchro boards via Despian Luluwalilith / The Three Champions of Swordsoul
• Turn 1 (going first): T1: Nadir Servant or Branded Opening to reach a Fallen of Albaz / Branded starter, then Fusion Summon through Branded Fusion or Super Polymerization
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom / Branded Retribution / Called by the Grave to protect the Fusion starter, then rebuild through Fallen of the White Dragon or Blazing Cartesia
• Recovery: Banished or GY Fallen monsters and Aluber / Branded Lost recursion rebuild the Fusion engine; the single Fallen of Albaz is the key recovery point
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists (score is capped on this basis)

Why it scores here

The structural read comes from the deck as a system: three 3-copy starters (Nadir Servant, Branded Opening, Aluber) plus 2-copy Fallen of the White Dragon and Blazing Cartesia give a roughly 0.34 chance of a 3-copy card in an opening 5-card hand, with searcher text present in 19 cards (P≥1 in opening 5 ≈ 0.97). Conversion relies on a single Fallen of Albaz as the material hub, which caps reliability and the 15-card Extra Deck (12 Fusion, 3 Synchro) is strong at closing (2500-3800 ATK bodies). Interaction is broad (Ash Blossom, Branded Retribution, Mercourier, Called by the Grave, Crossout Designator, and several negate-on-summon effects), but there is no Side Deck, no combo records, and no dated meta sample, so going-second, matchup and post-side scores are Provisional. The deck is Illegal because three Semi-Limited cards are run at 3 copies, so it receives only a capped structural-theoretical score. Popularity of the Despia archetype did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Toolbox secondary (disclosed; no weight change applied). Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist_exposure_over_limit (-4); hub_dependence_single_copy (-3); engine_conflict (-2); illegal_status_cap (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(57.6) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) = 56; context modifiers -9 gives 47; Illegal-status cap applies to 35 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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 and starter text (19 cards) with near-certain access to a searcher in the opening hand
• Strong Fusion/Synchro closing bodies (2500-3800 ATK)
• Layered negation and removal text across Main and Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts: three Semi-Limited cards at 3 copies
• Single Fallen of Albaz as the material hub for many Fusion lines
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) as Fusion material
• Extra Deck access blocked by Fusion-summon restrictions on several starters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 (legal sizes for tcg); Three cards over the Semi-Limited copy limit; Banlist statuses for Limited and Semi-Limited cards as given; Hypergeometric draw percentages
• Observed: No observed combo or win-rate data exists for this deck
• Inferred: D1 to D14 scores from card text and composition; Consistency and brick estimates; Interaction quality from negation text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); D12 post-side and D13 matchup/format fit; Tournament Reliability
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No Side Deck registered, so post-side plan cannot be evaluated usage_statistics in_this_deck flags contradict the card list for several IDs (for example Mirrorjade 44146295, Titaniklad 41373230, Granguignol 24915933, Albion the Branded Dragon 87746184, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon 78397661 are present in cards but flagged absent); core-coverage percentages were not used for scoring No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; Meta Power is Provisional