Despia Deck #769602 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, FTK/Alternate-Win
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Level 8 boss monsters (Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm) through the Fallen of Albaz / Branded fusion chain; Albion the Branded Dragon chain, which is Forbidden in this format and cannot be legally run
• Turn 1 (going first): Branded Opening or Aluber to search or summon a Despia/Branded piece, then Branded Fusion or Fallen of Albaz to Fusion Summon a Level 8 boss, backed by Branded Retribution for protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Effect Veiler, Ash Blossom and Maxx C as hand-trap answers to the opponent's board, then Fallen of Albaz and the Fusion chain to rebuild
• Recovery: Searchers (Branded Opening, Branded in High Spirits, Aluber, Tri-Brigade Mercourier, Springans Kitt) and graveyard-based Fusion Summons to rebuild the Fallen of Albaz engine after an interruption
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The list is illegal as submitted: Branded in High Spirits and Branded Opening are each run three times against a limit of one, and Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden and run twice, so the score is capped and the evaluation is theoretical/structural only. Within that cap, the Fallen of Albaz and Branded Fusion engine has real searcher density (P(at least one searcher in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.96, Inferred) and a strong ceiling in its Level 8 bosses, which lift the closing and interaction reads. The score comes from the system: the searcher and summon chain, the hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre) and the Fusion boss suite, weighed against a deck that is spread over many off-archetype generics (exact-name purity 7.3%) with no side deck and no recorded boards. Popularity is not credited: the archetype usage data confirms the core cards are real but does not make this list stronger. Card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 56.5, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 54, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6). Final formula: Illegal list: uncapped 0.80*Structural(56.5, D13 dropped and renormalised) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) - 6 modifier ≈ 48, then capped to 30 as theoretical/structural-only per the illegal-list rule; Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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

• Searcher density: 18 searcher-text cards give high early access to the Fallen of Albaz engine
• Layered interaction: Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird and Ghost Ogre give hand-trap coverage on both turns
• High closing ceiling: several 3000-ATK Level 8 Fusion bosses

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: copy-limit and Forbidden violations invalidate the list
• Weak archetype coherence: 7.3% exact-name purity across many generics
• No side deck at all
• Fusion-heavy chain with no recorded boards or win-rate data

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz is the single hub of the Fusion chain; losing it to one removal or hand trap collapses most lines
• Albion the Branded Dragon is the Branded fusion finisher and is Forbidden, so the Branded line is cut off at the legal limit

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Branded in High Spirits 3 copies (limit 1), Branded Opening 3 copies (limit 1), Albion the Branded Dragon 2 copies (Forbidden); Main deck 40 and Extra Deck 15 within size rules; no side deck registered; Searcher-text, hand-trap and negation-text counts from the evidence pack; Core Branded and Fallen of Albaz card text from the evidence pack
• Observed: Archetype usage shows Branded Fusion, Fallen of Albaz and Mulcharmy Fuwalos as core cards in comparable lists
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.96 as submitted; ≈ 0.34 for a 3-copy starter at legal counts; Structural estimates for D1 through D14 from card text and the Fusion chain; Ceiling from the Level 8 boss suite; floor and median are unknown without boards
• Provisional: Meta Power 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 absent no side deck registered; post-side plan cannot be assessed no win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample deck title is null in the export