Code Talker Deck #768867 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Tempo
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-3 to Link-5 Code Talker and Maliss Link Monsters with 2300+ ATK (Decode Talker Integration, Maliss Red Ransom, Accesscode Talker, Allied Code Talker @Ignister) per card text; ATK is verified, the board conversion is not.; Firewall Dragon (2500 ATK Link-4) and Nibiru, the Primal Being as a hand-trap-triggered board reset into a 3000 ATK beater.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Cyberse starter (Backup or Wizard @Ignister, Maliss March Hare, Maliss Chessy Cat) and extend into a Link-3 or Link-4 Code Talker or Maliss monster; keep Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Ghost Belle in hand as interaction for the opponent's first response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to find a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Droll and Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence) for the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Maliss graveyard revival and Link Summons from the Extra Deck.
• Recovery: Recover through Maliss in Underground and the Maliss Trap set-and-activate loop (Maliss Dormouse, White Rabbit, MTP-07, TB-11) and Dotscaper/Maliss graveyard Special Summons, all from the Main Deck and GY as the card text allows.
• After siding: Not supported: the deck has 0 Side Deck cards in the evidence, so no post-side plan can be evaluated.

Why it scores here

This deck is scored as a system in the OCG format, not from its cards' averaged power. The Maliss and Code Talker core (14 copies) has about a 78% chance of at least one piece in a 5-card opening hand, so the engine is usually accessible (Inferred). Interaction is the strongest part of the build: 13 hand traps and 15 negation/removal-text cards give it layered answers on both going-first and going-second (Inferred from card text). The conversion ceiling and the median output are unmeasured because no recorded boards exist, and there is no Side Deck, so adaptability is weak. The deck is Illegal under the OCG copy limits (Allure of Darkness at 3 copies against a limit of 1; Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 against 2), so the score is capped low and labeled structural-only. Popularity and archetype usage stats did not earn points because they confirm the list is real, not strong.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Stun secondary (not blended numerically; Combo weights used). Structural ≈ 54.3, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-10). Final formula: Illegal-cap evaluation. No metagame sample, so Meta is provisional: 0.80*54.3 + 0.20*42 = 51.8; context modifiers total -10 (banlist exposure) gives 41.8; capped to 35 because the deck is illegal (copy-limit violations).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.22 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense, layered interaction: 13 hand traps, Ash Blossom x3, Infinite Impermanence x3, Ghost Ogre and Ghost Belle
• Archetype core is accessible in the opening hand (about 78%)
• Full 15-card Link Extra Deck with Code Talker and Maliss overlap

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy limits on three cards
• Zero Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Low exact-name purity (5.7%) and many off-archetype tech and hand traps
• High hand-trap count increases dead-card and brick risk

Critical choke points

• Single-card dependence on Maliss Link Monsters to convert hand-trap interaction into a board
• Going-first hands that lack a starter and a hand trap are unrecoverable without Dotscaper or Maliss GY revival

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: 3 copy-limit violations (Allure of Darkness, Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; size rules legal for OCG; Extra Deck is 15 Link Monsters; Card text and ATK/DEF values for the listed cards
• Inferred: Core starter access 78% in a 5-card hand (hypergeometric); Hand-trap coverage 82% in a 6-card hand going second; Interaction density and the going-first/second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated sample); Matchup coverage (D13)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Side Deck is empty, so post-side behaviour cannot be evaluated Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No guides attached to the archetype