Despia Deck #763002 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±12 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon high-ATK Fusion Monsters (Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Titaniklad, Dracotail Arthalion, Albion the Branded Dragon) using Fallen of Albaz and Dracotail material, enabled by Ketu Dracotail, Rahu Dracotail, Branded Fusion and Dracotail Mululu.; Recursion-driven Dracotail grind: GY and banished Dracotail cards return to the Deck through Dracotail Lukias, Dracotail Urgula, Dracotail Pan and Dracotail Gulamel effects.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Dracotail Faimena, Branded Opening or Ketu Dracotail to find a Fusion starter, then Fusion Summon a Level 8 boss while using Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence to protect the line.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru, Dragon's Mind) and Forbidden Droplet or Called by the Grave to break the opponent's board, then go to the Fusion boss.
• Recovery: Rebuild through Dracotail GY-to-Deck recursion (Lukias, Urgula, Pan, Phryxul) and Branded in High Spirits or Branded Opening to re-find Fallen of Albaz.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side 0), so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games.

Why it scores here

This Despia list is Illegal under the TCG banlist because three Semi-Limited cards (Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, The Fallen & The Virtuous, Super Polymerization) run three copies against a limit of two, so under Step 2 it is capped and labelled theoretical and structural-only. Structurally the system reliably opens a Fusion engine: the archetype core is present in about 95 percent of opening hands and about 78 percent of hands contain a searcher, with Fallen of Albaz and Ketu/Rahu/Branded Fusion as the main bridges. Interaction is the deck's strongest feature, with 11 hand traps and about 16 negation or removal cards, which supports both going-first protection and going-second board breaking. Its ceiling (3000-ATK Fusion bosses) and median output cannot be measured because no boards were recorded, so those scores are Inferred from card text. Popularity of the Dracotail and Branded sub-archetypes was not counted as power, no card scores were averaged, and the lack of any Side Deck and of win-rate or meta data holds the score down.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: illegal_copy_limit_cap (-20). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 60.4 uncapped; Step 2 Illegal cap applied, final 40 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction suite: 11 hand traps plus negation and removal spells
• Archetype core reliably accessible in opening hands (about 95 percent)
• Extra Deck supplies several 3000-ATK bosses and Fusion flexibility

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy-limit violations on three Semi-Limited cards
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Fusion lines depend on the single-copy Fallen of Albaz
• No recorded combos or win-rate data to confirm median output

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) as the Fusion enabler
• Ketu Dracotail, Rahu Dracotail and Branded Fusion (Limited, 1 copy each) as the Fusion starters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is 60 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side, within the TCG size rules; Three Semi-Limited copy-limit violations (Ash Blossom, The Fallen & The Virtuous, Super Polymerization); Card types, stats and Limited statuses for the 14 Limited single-copy cards; Archetype core P(at least one in hand of 5) = 0.949 from the evidence pack
• Inferred: Structural dimension scores from the hypergeometric draw table and card text; Interaction density from the hand-trap and negation text tags; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; format fit (D13) is Provisional with no dated meta sample
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) no Side Deck, so post-side behaviour cannot be assessed deck title is null