Despia Deck #769628 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Level 8 Dragons (Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Titaniklad, Brigrand, Sprind) off Fallen of Albaz plus Branded/Despia material, then close with 2500-3500 ATK boards and Bystial Dis Pater.; Synchro closes through Bystial Dis Pater and Despian Luluwalilith once a Tuner and Dragon/non-Tuner board is established.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Branded Opening or Aluber/Fallen of the White Dragon line to reach Fallen of Albaz, then Branded Fusion or Fusion Deployment into a Level 8 Fusion; keep Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence up for the opponent's first response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold a six-card hand with Effect Veiler, Ash Blossom, Droll and Infinite Impermanence to stop the opponent's board, then convert with Fallen of Albaz-based Fusion or Synchro while the opponent is stalled.
• Recovery: Recover through Branded Retribution, Branded in Red and Aluber recursion from the GY, plus Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws to rebuild the hand after a single interruption.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; any side-deck adaptation is unavailable in this export.

Why it scores here

The score comes from the deck as a system, not from averaging its cards. The archetype core (25 copies, about 96% to have at least one in a 5-card opening hand) and the searcher density (21 cards, about 92% to hit one) make the engine reliably reachable on turn 1-2, which earns the consistency points. Ten hand traps and roughly 14 negation-text cards give the deck good interaction breadth for a going-second board, and the Level 8 Fusion and Synchro finishers (up to 3500 ATK) give it real closing power. Points are held back by the lack of combo records (no median or floor data), the thin 7% exact-archetype purity with 65 off-archetype copies, the absence of a Side Deck, and high pilot complexity. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and the score is capped because the list is illegal: three cards exceed their OCG copy limits, and Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden and run twice.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); no side deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); uncapped 0.80*58 + 0.20*50 - 12 = 44, capped to 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

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

• Archetype core and searcher density make the engine reliably reachable
• Ten hand traps and about 14 negation-text cards give broad interaction
• Level 8 Fusion and Synchro finishers reach 2500-3500 ATK boards

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three cards exceed OCG copy limits, including a Forbidden card run twice
• No Side Deck
• Only 7.1% exact-archetype purity; many off-archetype copies
• No recorded combos, so median and floor are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Albion the Branded Dragon (Forbidden) in the Extra Deck is a hard legality failure
• Fallen of Albaz as the single hub for most Fusion and Synchro routes
• Branded Fusion is Limited with one legal copy

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: three over-limit cards and one Forbidden card in the Extra Deck; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within the OCG size rules; Archetype core probability 0.959 and searcher probability 0.92; Exact-archetype purity 7.1%
• Inferred: Engine accessibility and brick estimates from hypergeometric draw odds; Combo ceiling from card text (no recorded boards); Interaction breadth from negation-text tags; Pilotability from step count
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Side-deck adaptability (no Side Deck registered)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null in the export no Side Deck is registered