Bystial/Byssted Deck #769943 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 13 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fallen of Albaz based Fusion pressure: Fusion Summon Dragon boss monsters (The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, Lubellion) through Branded Fusion, Super Polymerization and Blazing Cartesia / Ecclesia Fusion starters.; Bystial Magnamhut and Ecclesia Synchro/Dogmatika follow-ups when the Fusion line is blanked; the Bystial label covers only 1 Bystial card.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Fallen of Albaz or Branded in High Spirits / Branded Opening as the searcher, Fusion Summon via Branded Fusion or Super Polymerization, and protect the board with Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle and Droll & Lock Bird.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru and Witch's Strike to stop the opponent's first combo, then rebuild a Fusion board from the GY and Extra Deck.
• Recovery: Recursion from the GY through Fallen of Albaz, Albion, Incredible Ecclesia, Dogmatika Ecclesia and the Branded Retribution / Fallen-material GY effects; Garura draws 1 when sent to the GY.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games in a best-of-3 event.

Why it scores here

The list is a Fallen of Albaz and Branded Fusion engine with 11 Fusion and 2 Synchro Extra Deck cards, not a true Bystial deck; only one Bystial card is run, so the archetype label understates its engine. Its starters are reasonably accessible for an OCG Fusion deck: the archetype-core group has about a 61% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, and a 3-copy card has about a 25% chance of appearing there (Inferred hypergeometric). The deck's real strength is interaction density, with 12 hand traps and about 16 negation and 16 removal-text cards, so it can stop a single combo on the opponent's turn, which is why going-second scores come out fairly high. The score is held back by the lack of combo data (no recorded boards), a dead side deck, and an illegal list with five copy-limit violations. The score comes from consistency, interaction and Fusion pressure on the system, not from averaging card scores and not from the archetype's popularity. Because the list is Illegal, this is a structural-only read and the final score is capped.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: primary Combo; Stun used only as a secondary label, weights not blended. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violations (-20); Banlist exposure (-2); No side deck (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 51.7, then capped by Illegal status (-20 modifier) to 32; theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Strong interaction suite: 12 hand traps plus Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster and Solemn Judgment cover most opposing plays.
• Fusion engine has 3000-ATK bosses and GY recursion for a lasting board.
• Searchers (Branded in High Spirits, Branded Opening, Incredible Ecclesia, Dogmatika Ecclesia) give a good chance of finding a starter.
• Core archetype cards are present at about 80% of the reference inclusion list.

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: five copy-limit violations; cannot be played in OCG sanctioned events until fixed.
• No side deck at all, so no post-side adaptation in best-of-3.
• High brick risk from 12 hand traps and 20 tech cards that need specific board states.
• No recorded combo boards, so consistency and conversion are inferred from text.
• Archetype label (Bystial/Byssted) does not match the engine.

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz is a single copy and the main Fusion enabler; losing it to a hand trap or removal cuts most lines.
• Branded Fusion and Branded Opening are single copies (Limited), so one discard or lock can stop the searcher chain.
• Going second depends on having a hand trap in the opening 6 cards (about 79%).

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 5 copy-limit violations and 0 side cards (from evidence legality block); Main 55 / Extra 13 within OCG size rules; Card text, stats and banlist status for all listed cards; Archetype-core inclusion list (4 of 5 core cards present)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand estimates (starter, core group, hand-trap group); Consistency and brick-rate judgments from hand-trap and tech counts; Going-second hand-trap coverage; Fusion engine ceiling from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Combo floor and median (no parseable boards)
• Data gaps: No parseable combo boards; combo ceiling, median and floor are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup results unknown Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck, so post-side plan cannot be evaluated