Maliss Deck #769646 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 32/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Maliss Link Monsters (Hearts Crypter, White Binder) and push damage through their ATK and protection effects; Interaction-backed Link beatdown: Accesscode Talker and Firewall-style Link attackers are absent, so secondary pressure is thin
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Maliss starters (White Rabbit, Chessy Cat, March Hare, Dormouse) plus Maliss in Underground to build a Link-ready board, then Link Summon; Inferred
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Nibiru and Droll to break the opponent's first summon or activation, then Link through the resulting board; Inferred
• Recovery: Recover Maliss monsters and traps from the GY and banishment via Maliss Link effects and Hey, Space Trunade / Terraforming for resource refill; Inferred
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; best-of-3 is unsupported as built

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal as submitted: Maliss in Underground runs 3 copies against an OCG limit of 2, and Link Decoder is run although it is Forbidden, so the score is a theoretical, structural-only read capped low. Its core engine is reasonably accessible: P(at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.89, and 11 hand traps plus 14 negation-text cards give it a real going-second plan. Consistency is held back by low exact-name purity (21.4%), with 6 Mulcharmy and 5 Ars Magna copies diluting the Maliss engine, and the list has no side deck at all. No combo boards, tournament record, or meta share were supplied, so floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inferences and the meta read is Provisional. The score comes from consistency, interaction density, and going-second strength on the system; it does not come from Maliss being a popular archetype or from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); no_side_deck (-4); illegal_cap (0). Final formula: Raw: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) + Modifiers(-12) = 40; capped to 32 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only read). Meta Power provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · 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 is accessible: about 89% chance of at least one Maliss core card in a 5-card opening hand
• Dense interaction: 14 negation-text cards, 11 hand traps and 25 removal-text cards
• Strong going-second plan from hand traps and Droll & Lock Bird / Nibiru / Ghost Ogre

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Maliss in Underground at 3 copies (limit 2) and Link Decoder (Forbidden) run
• Low exact-name purity (21.4%): Mulcharmy and Ars Magna copies dilute the Maliss engine
• No side deck: zero post-side adaptability
• No combo boards or tournament data to verify conversion

Critical choke points

• Maliss in Underground: over the legal copy limit, so the engine's key spell is not legal as built
• Maliss Link Monsters (Hearts Crypter, White Binder) in the Extra Deck are the sole Link pressure without a backup Link-3+ route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Maliss in Underground 3 copies vs legal 2; Link Decoder Forbidden and run; Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts vs OCG size rules; Exact-name archetype purity 21.4%; core hypergeometric P(>=1 in hand of 5) = 0.8916; Limited/Semi-Limited statuses for Bystial Magnamhut, Solemn Judgment, Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse
• Inferred: Going-first and going-second plans from card text and hypergeometric draws; Interaction density and hand-trap-driven going-second strength; Consistency and brick-rate reads (D1, D2); Combo ceiling and median are text-only inference; no recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck registered (0 cards), so post-side plans cannot be evaluated