Maliss Deck #765344 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 50/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Midrange
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-summoned Maliss and Cyberse boards (Hearts Crypter, White Binder, Firewall Darkfluid, Super Starslayer TY-PHON) converting a board that the searchers and hand traps keep alive; Draw-engine value from Maxx C, Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Maliss Chessy Cat grinding out extra resources
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Maliss or Cyberse starter with Cynet Mining, Backup @Ignister or Radiant Typhoon Eldam, then Link Summon into a board and protect it with Maliss set traps
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll and Maxx C as interaction for the opponent's first Special Summon or search, then rebuild from the GY and banish zone
• Recovery: Search again from the Deck (19 searcher-text cards) and re-summon from the GY or banish zone with the Maliss trap and monster effects
• After siding: Not supported: side deck size is 0, so there is no post-side plan in this list

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional first turn because 19 searcher-text cards give about a 97% chance of at least one searcher in an opening 5-card hand (Inferred), and 10 Maliss-named main-deck copies give about a 78% chance of at least one Maliss starter in 5 cards (Inferred, computed from the main-deck list). Its resilience comes from stacked hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C) and multiple self-summon and search routes, not from a single engine. The score is held down by low engine coherence: only 12 of 55 copies (21.8%) carry the exact Maliss archetype name, and the 14 Link monsters are mostly non-Maliss (only Hearts Crypter and White Binder are Maliss). There is no combo evidence, no tournament link and no side deck, so the median and ceiling are text-based estimates. The score was not produced by averaging card scores, and the Maliss archetype's popularity earned no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 55.3, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Engine conflicts (-3); Banlist exposure (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*55.3 + 0.20*52 - 5 = 49.6, rounded to 50

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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 suite (19 searcher-text cards) gives high starter access
• Three hand traps plus removal and negation text gives real interaction density
• Multiple independent self-summon and search routes support resilience
• Legal list with copy counts and size rules all within the Master Duel limits

Weaknesses

• Exact Maliss archetype purity is only 21.8%, so the engine is diluted
• Only 2 of 14 Link monsters are Maliss, which weakens Extra Deck coherence
• No side deck (0 cards) means no post-side adaptation
• Hand traps are conditional, so some opening hands are dead on the draw

Critical choke points

• Access to Maliss Link monsters (only Hearts Crypter and White Binder in Extra) through the Maliss Traps and Maliss monsters
• Banish-cost Maliss effects depend on having enough Maliss cards in hand or GY

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; copy limits respected (Limited 1, Semi-Limited 2); Exact Maliss archetype purity 12 of 55 copies (21.8%); Extra Deck: 14 Link monsters of which 2 are Maliss, plus 1 XYZ; Side deck is 0 cards
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities for searchers (0.97) and Maliss starters (0.78); Hand-trap availability going second (0.65); Interaction density from card text (6 negation, 13 removal hints); Engine route redundancy from searchers and self-summon text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13 = 50) with no dated sample or tournament link
• 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 for going first or second, matchup, or brick and starter rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Export inconsistency: usage statistics marks Maliss Hearts Crypter and Maliss White Binder as in this deck false, but both appear in the cards list in the Extra zone with copies 1. core-card presence (64) may be undercounted from the Extra-zone match