Code Talker Deck #767652 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Monster board pressure (Maliss and Code Talker Link Monsters such as Maliss Red Ransom, Maliss White Binder, Maliss Hearts Crypter, Accesscode Talker), with Ryzeal Detonator as a single boss Xyz; Bystial Druiswurm and Bystial Magnamhut as 2500-ATK main-deck beaters
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Maliss starter (Dormouse, White Rabbit or Chessy Cat), banish Maliss resources to Special Summon and Link Summon, and keep Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence up for the opponent's response
• Turn 2 (going second): Lead with hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru, Droll & Lock Bird, Artifact Lancea, Dimension Shifter) to stop the opponent's first combo, then rebuild through Maliss Link Monsters
• Recovery: Maliss traps and Special Summon effects from Deck or GY (Maliss MTP-07, Maliss TB-11, Maliss GWC-06) re-deploy monsters after disruption
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (0 cards)

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its strongest feature is interaction: 18 hand traps and 16 negation-text cards give a going-second hand a 92% chance of at least one hand trap (Inferred from the hypergeometric table), which is the main reason D8 and D7 are the highest dimensions. Engine consistency is weak. The archetype label 'Code Talker' is nominal (exact-name purity 1.4%, 69 off-archetype copies across Maliss, Bystial, Artifact, Dominus, Knightmare and Ryzeal), and the core archetype cards (Transcode Talker, Wizard @Ignister, Cyberse Wicckid) are absent, so the Maliss engine has to carry the plan with a 27% chance per 3-copy card in the opening five. No combos were supplied, so the ceiling and median come only from text reading, and popularity or usage stats were not used to raise the score. The list is Forbidden in several places (Called by the Grave, Dimension Shifter x3, Knightmare Gryphon, Link Decoder, Splash Mage) and over the copy limit in 12 cards, so it is Illegal and the final score is capped as a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4); illegal-list cap (-9). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(48) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 46.4; plus modifiers (−12) = 34.4; capped at 25 because legality is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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 going-second interaction: about 92% chance of a hand trap in a 6-card opener
• Redundant negate sources (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru, Droll & Lock Bird, Artifact Lancea)
• Broad Link Monster Extra Deck with several 2300–2800 ATK bosses

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: five Forbidden cards and twelve over-limit copies
• Engine coherence is poor: the 'Code Talker' label covers about 1.4% of the main deck
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Core archetype cards (Transcode Talker, Wizard @Ignister, Cyberse Wicckid) are missing

Critical choke points

• Maliss starters (Dormouse, White Rabbit, Chessy Cat) are only about 25% likely in an opening five
• Maliss traps need a banish-cost monster on the field before they are live
• Forbidden Link Decoder and Splash Mage remove the intended Cyberse recursion routes

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal; Forbidden cards present; twelve over-limit copies; Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 (OCG size rules met for Main and Extra); Exact-name purity 1.4%; 69 off-archetype copies
• Inferred: P(≥1 engine starter in opener) ≈ 0.25 per 3-copy card; core group ≈ 0.72; P(≥1 hand trap in going-second hand) ≈ 0.92; Interaction layering from card text (negation and removal counts)
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no tournament or 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 match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) no Side Deck: post-side adaptability cannot be measured Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied