Maliss Deck #769339 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-monster board pressure (Maliss Link 3-4 with 2300-2500 ATK bodies such as Red Ransom, Hearts Crypter, Accesscode Talker) backed by Maliss Chessy Cat and Backup @Ignister for card advantage.; Bystial and Cyberse extenders (Druiswurm, Magnamhut, Baldrake) as Special Summon follow-up off a hand-trap or banish trigger.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a hand with Maliss March Hare or Chessy Cat plus a searcher, banish a Maliss card to set up a Link-2/3 summon, and hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler) for the opponent's first activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use a hand trap (15 in the Main Deck) to stop the opponent's board-starter, then recover through Maliss in the GY and a Link Summon from the Extra Deck.
• Recovery: Recur Maliss monsters and traps from the GY and banish zone via Maliss in the Mirror, Maliss White Rabbit and Maliss MTP-07; Dotscaper and Mulcharmy Fuwalos add extra draws.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan to assess.

Why it scores here

This OCG Maliss list is scored as a system and is capped low because it is Illegal: Allure of Darkness is run 3 copies against a limit of 1, and Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run 3 against a limit of 2. Its strongest reliable features are interaction density (15 hand traps, 12 negation-text cards, 27 removal-text cards) and a going-second hand that finds at least one hand trap about 87% of the time, which lifts interaction and going-second scores. The Link-3/4 bodies (Red Ransom, Hearts Crypter, Accesscode Talker) give a credible endboard. Engine coherence is weak: exact-name Maliss purity is only 22.9% (16 of 70 archetype-tagged copies), with 35 generic cards and several other sub-archetypes (Ignister, Bystial, Cyber, Salamangreat, Code Talker, Knightmare), which drives the brick and pilotability penalties. No combo boards, tournament results, side deck, or dated meta sample were supplied, so combo and meta claims are not scored and the Tournament Reliability figure is inferred. The score was not derived from averaging card scores, and popularity of the Maliss archetype did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (illegal copy counts) (-8); Engine conflicts / off-archetype density (-3). Final formula: Illegal cap applied. Uncapped: 0.80*Structural(49.5) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) + modifiers(-11) ≈ 37; capped to 30 per the Illegal rule. Meta Power is null (provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.72 · 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 hand-trap and negation coverage (15 hand traps, 12 negation-text cards)
• Link-3/4 bodies with 2300-2500 ATK give a real closing board
• Strong going-second hand-trap density (~87% at least one in hand 6)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: two cards over the copy limit
• Low exact-name Maliss purity (22.9%) with several competing sub-archetypes
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• High brick and dead-card risk from 15 hand traps plus splash tech

Critical choke points

• Maliss in the Mirror, Maliss TB-11 and other Maliss recursion starters are the main engine route; losing them to a hand-trap or floodgate collapses the Link summon line
• Floodgates on the Extra Deck Link monsters (Red Ransom, Hearts Crypter) limit recovery once the board is cleared

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Allure of Darkness 3 copies vs limit 1; Ash Blossom 3 vs limit 2; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 (legal size); Archetype purity 22.9% (16 of 70 archetype-tagged copies); 15 hand traps, 12 negation-text, 27 removal-text roles
• Observed: Maliss core cards show high inclusion in usage stats (Maliss in Mirror, Chessy Cat, Dormouse, TB-11)
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability ≈ 0.72 and going-second hand-trap probability ≈ 0.87 (hypergeometric); Interaction quality (D7) and brick risk (D2) are judged from card text; Engine coherence and pilotability are judged from archetype spread
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup/format fit (D13) — no dated metagame 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 match record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick, starter rates) No Side Deck — post-side plan cannot be evaluated Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample