Despia Deck #769878 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±5 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Synchro boards led by Despian and Branded Extra Deck monsters (Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Lubellion, Chaos Angel, Despian Luluwalilith, Titaniklad) once a Fallen of Albaz starter is live; Ritual boss line through Light and Darkness Ritual into Black Luster Soldier or Black Chaos, with Magician of Dark Chaos as a backup boss
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of the White Dragon starter (or Mulcharmy draw engine), search or float into Fusion or Synchro, and keep Ash Blossom and Maxx C up as interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, and Dimensional Barrier to stop the opponent, then rebuild through the Dogmatika and Branded searchers
• Recovery: Rebuild from the GY using Dogmatika Ecclesia, Blazing Cartesia, Branded in Red, Mind Shuffle, and Mulcharmy recursion to re-add starters
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal in OCG: it runs three copies of a Limited card, two copies of a Forbidden Fusion, a Forbidden Gimmick Puppet, and 17 Extra Deck cards against a 15-card cap, so the score is capped and the evaluation is structural only. Structurally, the deck reliably gets a Fallen of Albaz or Mulcharmy starter live in the opening hand (about 0.83 for at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card hand, Inferred), and it has a broad interaction suite of eight hand traps and removal text. Its conversion ceiling is high because of Extra Deck boss monsters, but the median output is limited by 33 distinct Main Deck cards with many single copies, a non-coherent mix of Despia, Branded, Mulcharmy and Light and Darkness Ritual, and no combo data to confirm real boards. The score does not come from Despia being a known archetype, and card scores were not averaged; it reflects the system's consistency, interaction and median output, with the legality cap applied on top.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary; Midrange profile used for the structural score. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 44, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); Extra Deck over size (-3); no side deck (0). Final formula: Computed as 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*47 + 0.20*40 - 11 = about 35, then capped at 25 because the deck is Illegal (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.17 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Large searcher and recursion package (20 searcher cards) that can rebuild starters
• Eight hand traps and multiple negation and removal effects for interaction
• Extra Deck boss monsters with high ATK and layered effects

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Forbidden and Limited copy violations plus an over-size Extra Deck
• Low archetype purity: the Main Deck mixes Despia, Branded, Mulcharmy, Light and Darkness Ritual and other families
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Many single-copy cards raise brick and dead-card risk

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz as the central starter for Fusion and Synchro lines
• Forbidden Albion the Branded Dragon as a Branded engine piece, which cannot be run in OCG at all
• Extra Deck size of 17 exceeds the limit, so one Extra Deck card must be removed before the list is playable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Forbidden Albion and Gimmick Puppet Nightmare, over-limit Branded in High Spirits, Extra Deck 17 over 15; Main Deck count 55 within 40 to 60; Side deck is empty; Card text of the hand traps and searchers (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Dimensional Barrier)
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.83 for at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card hand (hypergeometric); Going-second hand-trap coverage about 0.63 in a 6-card hand; Structural dimension scores and the Midrange weight profile; Ceiling and median reads from card text, since no combos exist
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and D13 score (no 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck has no side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed