Despia Deck #762357 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Albion the Branded Dragon, Titaniklad, Granguignol or Dragon that Devours the Dogma off a Fallen of Albaz starter, then press with boss Fusion/Synchro monsters; Synchro boards from Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon and Three Champions of Swordsoul, with Mulcharmy draw pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Branded Opening or Nadir Servant to find a Despia/Branded piece, Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of the White Dragon into Branded Fusion or Super Polymerization for a boss; Branded Retribution held for backrow protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Droll and Lock Bird or Called by the Grave on the opponent's first play, then Branded Retribution to negate a Special Summon and recover Fusion Materials from the GY
• Recovery: Fallen of the White Dragon and Branded in High Spirits recur Fusion Materials from hand and GY; Aluber recurs from GY when a Fusion Monster leaves the field
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck list has no Side Deck (side_count 0), so no post-side plan can be established

Why it scores here

The deck has a strong starter density: the archetype-core group gives P(at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.98 and searcher text appears on 18 copies, so the engine is usually live by turn 2 (Inferred from hypergeometric estimates). Its Fusion and Synchro package (13 Fusion, 2 Synchro, with Albion, Titaniklad, Granguignol and the Dragon that Devours the Dogma) gives it several distinct boss routes, which supports the conversion and closing scores. Interaction is layered across negations, removal text and two hand traps, but the list has no Side Deck and about 67 off-archetype copies, so engine coherence and post-side adaptability are weak. No recorded boards, tournament link or win-rate data exist, so the floor and median are inferred from text only and kept low-confidence. The score is capped because the list is illegal (two cards over their copy limit), so it reflects a theoretical structural read only; popularity of the Despia archetype and any averaging of card scores were not used.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-4); engine_conflicts (-4). Final formula: Uncapped no-meta formula 0.80*57 + 0.20*45 = ~55 (Meta provisional); suppressed by Illegal status, so final is a capped theoretical structural-only value of 35

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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 archetype-core and searcher text give a high chance of a live engine by turn 2 (Inferred)
• Multiple Fusion boss routes in the Extra Deck give several conversion paths
• Recursion via Fallen of the White Dragon, Branded in High Spirits and Aluber adds some redundancy

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two cards over their copy limit
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• High off-archetype density (67 copies) weakens engine coherence
• No recorded combo data to confirm floor or median output

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz and the Fallen of the White Dragon line: most boss routes depend on a Fusion Summon that uses them as Material
• Limited/Semi-Limited cards (Branded Fusion, Called by the Grave, Super Polymerization) must be trimmed to legal copies before the deck is playable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within size rules 40-60 and 0-15; Two over-limit violations: The Fallen & The Virtuous (3 vs 2) and Super Polymerization (3 vs 2); Limited/Semi-Limited statuses and copy counts as listed; Archetype core group P(>=1 in hand of 5) = 0.9847 and searcher-text group 0.8747
• Inferred: Starter reliability and brick risk from hypergeometric estimates and text roles; Recursion and interaction quality from card text; Structural dimension scores and weight profile (Combo)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format-fit scores (D13)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no Side Deck supplied: post-side plan and D12 cannot be measured no win-rate telemetry: going-first/second and matchup rates unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied