Despia Deck #766236 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Albaz-line Fusion Summons (Mirrorjade, Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Lubellion, Albion) and Darklord Dance / Darklord Eveningstar / The First Darklord boards that close with 3000-4000 ATK bodies; Darklord recursion and hand-trap grind (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Nibiru) to win long games
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Darklord or Mulcharmy starter, or Branded Opening for Aluber / Guiding Quem; reach Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of the White Dragon for a Fusion into a Level 8 boss, keeping Ash Blossom up
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird for the opponent's first summon or draw, then rebuild with Darklord Djehuty / Gulgolet and Fallen of the White Dragon
• Recovery: Banish or recycle Darklord and Despia monsters from the GY (Darklord Ixchel, Despian Tragedy, Darklord Contact, Fallen Angel in Darkness), then re-Fusion through Darklord Dance
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no side deck, so the deck has no post-side plan and must be piloted on its main-deck build alone

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as one connected system, not as an average of its card scores. Its Darklord half is reliable: the 3-copy starters (Djehuty, Gulgolet, Ixchel, Mulcharmy, Aluber, Ash Blossom) and about 89% odds of a searcher-text card in the opening hand give it a real opening. Its ceiling is high, with 3000-4000 ATK Fusion bosses and a strong interaction package of 7 hand traps and 8 negation-text cards, but the Albaz line that feeds six of the fifteen Extra Deck monsters is gated by only three Albaz-named monsters, which gives roughly a 23% chance of one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred). The deck has no recorded combos and no tournament or matchup data, so median output and format fit are text-based or provisional, and the score is held down for that. Usage popularity earned no points: the archetype core cards missing from this list are not counted as strength.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 61.9, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); unrecoverable choke point (-2); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(meta-neutral, D13 dropped and renormalised) + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers(-6); Meta Power provisional/null

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.23 · 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

• Darklord starters at 3 copies each give a consistent opening core
• Layered interaction: 7 hand traps plus negation and removal text
• High-ATK Fusion bosses (First Darklord 4000, Eveningstar 3000, Mirrorjade 3000)
• Extensive GY recursion keeps the deck playing after disruption

Weaknesses

• Albaz-named starters are only 3 copies, so the Albaz Fusion line is often absent from the opener
• No side deck in Master Duel, so no adaptability
• Four or more sub-engines share one list, with low exact archetype purity
• No combo or tournament data, so the ceiling and format fit are unverified

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz and Fallen of the White Dragon (3 copies total) gate six Extra Deck Fusions
• Branded Fusion, a single Limited copy, is the main Albaz-line access

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 60 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side, all restricted cards within legal copies; Card text and ATK/DEF for all listed cards; Archetype usage stats: 13 of 25 core cards present
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities (hypergeometric, Main Deck only); Albaz-line gating and the ~23% opener access; Interaction density and hand-trap value from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated metagame sample); Matchup performance (no win-rate telemetry)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Master Duel has no side deck, so post-side scoring is not applicable Deck title is null; archetype label is taken from the Despia archetype_id 154 export