Despia Deck #766891 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Fusion and Link bosses (Darklord Eveningstar, The First Darklord, Albaz Dragon fusions) summoned off Fallen of Albaz and Darklord material; Darklord recursion through Darklord Ixchel, Darklord Tezcatlipoca and Darklord Contact, which rebuilds the board after disruption
• Turn 1 (going first): Branded Opening or Aluber to put a Despia or Branded piece in hand, then Fusion or Link into a boss while the Darklord searchers thin the Deck
• Turn 2 (going second): Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C or Nibiru to slow the opponent's summons, then Fallen of Albaz into a Fusion boss through the Branded Fusion or Fallen of White Dragon route
• Recovery: Darklord Ixchel and Tezcatlipoca from the GY, Darklord Contact to revive a Darklord from the GY, and Banishment or Gulgolet to re-search
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no side deck, so no post-side plan exists in this format

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional starter: the archetype core group has about a 92 percent chance of at least one piece in a 5-card opening hand, and the searcher group about 89 percent (Inferred from the hypergeometric draw table). It converts that starter into bosses at 2500 to 4000 ATK and several Extra Deck Fusion and Link routes, so its closing power scores high. Interaction is broad (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Nibiru, Forbidden Droplet, Darklord Rebellion and The Sanctified Darklord), and the Darklord recursion cards give it some resilience after disruption. The score is pulled down by three overlapping engines (Darklord, Despia and Branded/Albaz) with only 9.3 percent exact-name archetype purity, a single-copy Fallen of Albaz hub, and no combo data, median output or tournament record. The score was built from consistency, median output and interaction at the system level; neither the deck's popularity nor an average of its individual card scores contributed.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59.6, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: engine conflict (-3); single-copy Extra Deck hub (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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

• Strong opening-hand access: the archetype core and searcher groups are each likely to produce a starter in a 5-card hand
• Broad, layered interaction: hand traps, negation and removal text across several sub-archetypes
• High boss ceiling at ATK 2500 to 4000 with several Fusion and Link routes
• Darklord recursion gives continuation after disruption

Weaknesses

• Three overlapping engines (Darklord, Despia, Branded/Albaz) with low exact-name purity
• Single-copy Fallen of Albaz gates multiple Albaz Dragon Fusions
• Many one-of pieces raise brick risk and dilute draw consistency
• Main Deck is at the 60-card maximum with no compaction, and no measured median output

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) gates several Albaz Dragon Fusions in the Extra Deck
• Branded Opening and Aluber as the only 3-copy Despia and Branded searchers for the first two turns

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Master Duel: 60 main, 15 extra, 0 side within the 40 to 60 main and 0 to 15 extra limits; copy limits respected for Limited and Semi-Limited cards; Card text and copy counts for each listed card; Hypergeometric draw figures (3-copy P(at least one) = 0.2333 in 5 cards, 0.2752 in 6 cards); Archetype composition: 26 Darklord, 7 Despia, 7 Branded, 4 Albaz Dragon, 11 Fusion, 3 Link, 1 Synchro in the Extra Deck
• Inferred: Starter access of about 0.92 from the archetype core group; Brick risk from one-of pieces and off-plan cards; Interaction density from hand-trap and negation text; Going-first and going-second strength from the draw and interaction estimates; Extra-Deck dependence on a single Fallen of Albaz copy
• Provisional: Meta power (not supplied); Matchup and format fit (D13, no dated metagame 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 are absent usage_statistics marks Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Rindbrumm, Granguignol, Alba-Lenatus, Lubellion, Mirrorjade, Despian Quaeritis and The Dragon that Devours the Dogma as in_this_deck=false, yet they appear in the cards list as Extra Deck copies; core_cards_present and missing_core are therefore unreliable and were not used for scoring no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first and going-second splits are Inferred deck title is null; no side deck exists in Master Duel, so D12 is structural only guides are attached but have no sections, so their strategic intent is only partly known