Maliss Deck #762412 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• 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-Summon Maliss Link Monsters such as Hearts Crypter and Red Ransom to build a board that banishes opposing cards and attacks through interaction (Inferred from card text); Hand-trap and negation pressure (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird) to stall the opponent and protect the engine (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Maliss starter (March Hare or Chessy Cat, 3 copies each) with the searchers, then Link Summon through Maliss Link Monsters while holding hand traps for the opponent's first interaction (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit and Droll & Lock Bird against the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through Maliss monsters and Mulcharmy draws (Inferred)
• Recovery: Use Mulcharmy draw effects and Maliss GY banish-recursion (Maliss in the Mirror, Maliss MTP-07) to rebuild after a disruption (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the side deck is empty (0 cards, legal for TCG), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

Maliss reliably opens a Link-side plan through its three-copy starters and 11 searchers, and its 11 hand traps plus 29 removal-text hits give it layered answers to early plays. The list is Illegal: three Forbidden cards, four over-limit cards and a 16-card Extra Deck exceed the TCG limits, so the score is capped at 30 and labelled theoretical or structural-only. The deck has no recorded combos and an empty side deck, so ceiling and median output are text-only inference and post-side play is unscored. Archetype popularity earned no points, since exact-name purity is only 22 percent across six related sub-archetypes, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*53 + 0.20*45 = 51.4, minus 10 of modifiers = 41, capped to 30 as theoretical/structural-only until the list is legal

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Layered interaction: 11 hand traps and 29 removal-text hits answer the opponent's early plays (Verified text / Inferred)
• Searcher density (11 cards) plus Mulcharmy draw effects make a functional opening hand more likely (Inferred)
• Link-side ATK of 2300 to 2500 across Maliss and Code Talker links gives closing power (Verified)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three Forbidden cards and four over-limit cards (Verified)
• Extra Deck of 16 breaks the 15-card maximum (Verified)
• Only 16 exact-name Maliss cards at 22.2 percent purity; the list is a multi-archetype pile of staples (Verified)
• Empty side deck leaves no post-side adaptation (Verified)
• No combo data, so ceiling and median are text-only (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Maliss starter access: about 0.25 per 3-copy starter in an opening hand of 5 (Inferred)
• Cyberse Code Magician is a Ritual monster with no Cynet Ritual in the list, so it is likely a dead card (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: three Forbidden cards, four over-limit cards, Extra Deck 16 against a limit of 15; Card text and banlist status for all 56 main and 16 extra cards; Archetype purity 22.2 percent (16 exact-name Maliss cards); Side deck is empty
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.25 per 3-copy starter; searcher group about 0.68 in a hand of 5; Hand-trap group about 0.75 in a hand of 6 going second; Interaction density from card text (11 hand traps, 29 removal hits); Ceiling and median output from text only; no boards recorded
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no tournament or metagame sample; Going-first and going-second splits
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: meta share and pilot record absent usage_statistics marks Maliss Red Ransom and Maliss Hearts Crypter as not in this deck, but the cards list carries one copy of each; core_present_pct of 20 is unreliable No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be scored No win-rate telemetry; Meta Power is provisional