Despia Deck #765301 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 36/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a Level 8+ Fusion boss (Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Mirrorjade, Titaniklad, Despian Proskenion) off Fallen of Albaz and Branded/Dogmatika materials, with Albaz Dragon engine extension; Synchro/Fusion beatdown with Dogmatika Fleurdelis and Maximus, plus Bystial Druiswurm and Magnamhut as backup boards
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Fallen of the White Dragon, Blazing Cartesia or Aluber, then use Branded Opening or Nadir Servant to add Fallen of Albaz and Fusion Deployment or Branded Fusion to reach a Fusion boss (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand trap Ash Blossom or Bystial Druiswurm, then rebuild through Fallen of Albaz and Fusion Summon; hand-trap density is the only real answer to an opposing board (Inferred)
• Recovery: Ash Blossom and Called by the Grave to protect a single Fusion line; GY recursion via Branded Retribution, Mirrorjade and Dogmatika Maximus (Inferred from text)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; any sideboard would need to be built from scratch (Provisional)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its Despia/Branded/Fallen of Albaz core: the archetype-core group has about 99.5% hypergeometric odds of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and the search text covers roughly 22 searcher cards, so the engine is accessible on turn 1-2 (Inferred). Its ceiling depends on Fusion Summoning a Level 8+ boss off Fallen of Albaz, which the text supports, but no recorded boards exist, so conversion and median output are text-only inference. Interaction comes from Ash Blossom, Called by the Grave, Branded Retribution and Dogmatika Maximus, which gives a moderate end-board and going-second answer, though with only three hand traps the going-second board is thin. The deck runs no side deck and three copies above the format's legal limit, so it is scored as a structural read only and its final score is capped; popularity in the archetype's usage stats confirms the list is real but did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Midrange secondary (Structural uses the Combo profile only). Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Illegal legality cap (-20); Banlist exposure (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional), then Illegal cap applied via modifier

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype-core access is near-certain on the opening hand (Inferred)
• Layered hand-trap and negate text gives real interaction (Inferred from text)
• Fusion boss options at 2500-3200 ATK give closing power (Inferred from stats)

Weaknesses

• Three cards above the legal copy limit make the list illegal
• No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists
• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz is a single copy and gates most Fusion lines
• The Fallen & The Virtuous and Branded Fusion are the only routes to the Fusion boss without a Fallen of Albaz draw

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Three over-limit violations (Ash Blossom, The Fallen & The Virtuous, The Bystial Lubellion); Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 sizes and banlist statuses; Archetype core group of 28 copies present (99.5% hand-5 odds)
• Observed: Usage stats show the archetype's core cards and typical copy counts (archetype-level, not this deck's record)
• Inferred: Opening-hand accessibility and brick estimates from hypergeometric draw tables; Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Interaction and closing-power reads from card text and stats
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Format fit and matchup coverage (no tournament link); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no side deck registered — post-side scoring is provisional no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied