Bystial/Byssted Deck #769966 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Tempo
• 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 Fusion/Synchro boss monsters (Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Dramaturge of Despia, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Bystial Dis Pater) that end the opponent's board; Bystial Dragon beatsticks (Saronir, Magnamhut, Lubellion) reanimated through banish-from-GY Special Summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Branded Fusion or Branded Opening to fetch a Fallen of Albaz line, with Fallen of the White Dragon or Mirrorjade-style follow-ups; Ash Blossom and hand traps held for the opponent's response
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 6-card hand with hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Ecclesia/Cartesia summons) to break the opponent's first board, then Special Summon out of the GY into a boss
• Recovery: Searchers (Aluber, Despian Tragedy, Springans Kitt, Bystial effects) rebuild a hand from the Deck and GY; Branded Regained recycles a banished LIGHT or DARK monster
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This deck is scored as a connected system, not as an average of its card scores. Its Branded searchers (17 searcher-text cards, about 95% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand) make a starter reliable, and the Fallen of Albaz line feeds several Fusion and Synchro finishers. Its interaction package (6 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards) gives it real resilience and going-second power, and its 3000-3500 ATK boss monsters give it closing power. The score is held down because the list is legally invalid: three cards exceed their OCG copy limits, including a Forbidden card run twice, which caps the evaluation as theoretical only. The deck also spreads across about 11 related sub-archetypes with no side deck, and it has no recorded combos or tournament data, so its floor and median output are unmeasured. Archetype popularity did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 53.1, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (illegal copy counts) (-12); Illegal list cap (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*53.1 + 0.20*45 - 12 = 39.5, then capped at 35 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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 (17 cards) makes the starter reliable (Inferred)
• Six hand traps and 14 negation-text cards give layered going-second interaction (Inferred)
• Fusion and Synchro bosses at 3000 to 3500 ATK give closing power (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Legally invalid list: three copy-limit violations including a Forbidden card (Verified)
• No side deck, so there is no post-side plan (Verified)
• Archetype sprawl across about 11 sub-archetypes with no core engine coherence (Verified composition)
• No recorded combos, so floor and median output are unmeasured (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz is the required Fusion material for most bosses; losing it to a hand trap or Maxx C stalls the Branded and Albaz routes (Inferred)
• Branded Fusion is Limited to 1 copy and is the main route to the Albaz Fusion chain; more than one would be illegal (Verified)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; three over-limit cards (Branded in High Spirits x2, Branded Opening x2, Albion the Branded Dragon x2 Forbidden); Restricted-card statuses for Limited and Semi-Limited cards in the list; Composition counts: 40 main, 15 extra (11 Fusion, 4 Synchro), 14 role-tagged cards and 17 searcher-text cards; Usage statistics: 3 of 5 core cards present (60%)
• Inferred: Starter reliability (P at least one searcher in 5 about 0.95) from hypergeometric draws; Interaction density from negation text and hand-trap counts; Going-second hand-trap availability (P about 0.65 in 6); Bootstrap and brick estimates from card text
• Provisional: Format fit (D13) with no tournament or meta sample; Meta power (null) with no dated meta sample
• 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 absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown deck title is null; guide snippets are thin (one is a single period) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied