Maliss Deck #770251 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Maliss Link Monsters in the Extra Deck (Maliss Q White Binder, Maliss Q Hearts Crypter) and high-ATK Link pressure (Firewall Dragon Darkfluid, Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon, Bystial Druiswurm and Magnamhut as Limited beaters); Recursion-based Link plays through Maliss Chessy Cat, Maliss White Rabbit and Radiant Typhoon searchers, with Mulcharmy draw engine to refill
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Cyberse starter such as Backup @Ignister or Maliss White Rabbit, search and set a Maliss trap or Radiant Typhoon piece, then link into a Maliss Link monster that protects the board
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Nibiru) to answer the opponent's first summon or activation, then convert the surviving board into a Link Summon
• Recovery: Use Maliss GY and banished-card recursion, Maliss Chessy Cat and Maliss March Hare to re-Special Summon Maliss monsters, and Mulcharmy draws to rebuild hand
• After siding: Cannot be evaluated: the list has no side deck. A legal list would need to add a side for Best-of-3 play

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal under the OCG list: Radiant Typhoon Chant is at 3 copies against a limit of 1, Maliss in Underground is at 3 against 2, and Link Decoder is a Forbidden card in the Extra Deck. Under the illegal-list rule it is capped and labelled theoretical and structural only. The structural read is built from the system: the Maliss core (19 archetype-core copies, P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.89) makes the engine reasonably accessible, and 14 hand-trap-type cards plus 7 negation-text cards give strong going-second interaction. Consistency is held back by only 14 exact-name Maliss cards (20% exact-name purity), with 56 off-archetype copies from Radiant Typhoon, Mulcharmy and @Ignister, plus 21 generic cards, which raises brick risk. There is no combo evidence and no side deck, so the floor, median and ceiling are inferred from text only and post-side scores are absent. Popularity and archetype usage were not used to add points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, no secondary weighting applied (structural score uses Midrange profile). Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); no_side_deck (-4); illegal_list_cap (-13). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + ContextModifiers(-10) = 43, then capped to 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical and structural-only). Meta is Provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.11 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered hand-trap and negation package (14 hand-trap-type cards, 7 negation-text cards) gives strong going-second interaction
• Maliss core is accessible (P ≥ 1 core copy in 5-card hand ≈ 0.89)
• Multiple Link beaters and recursive Maliss effects give several continuation routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Radiant Typhoon Chant (3 vs 1), Maliss in Underground (3 vs 2) and Forbidden Link Decoder
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptability
• Low exact-name purity (20%) and 21 generic cards raise brick risk
• No combo or win-rate evidence, so the ceiling and floor are unverified

Critical choke points

• Legal fix required before any normal score: remove Link Decoder and cut Chant and Maliss in Underground to legal counts
• Core Maliss Link Summon route relies on a small set of exact-name Maliss cards (14)
• Going-second hands depend on hand traps, so a hand without one leaves no answer to the opponent's first play

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 55 cards and Extra deck 15 cards are within the OCG size range; Radiant Typhoon Chant is at 3 copies against a limit of 1; Maliss in Underground is at 3 against 2; Link Decoder is Forbidden and present; Card texts and stats for all 40+ distinct cards; Usage stats: Maliss core cards present or absent
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and brick estimates (0.89 and 0.11); Midrange strategy classification from the card mix; Floor, median and ceiling estimates from text only; Going-first and going-second splits from hand-trap density
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup and format fit (D13 = 45)
• Data gaps: Illegal list: score is a theoretical and structural cap, not a legal-deck score No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No side deck: post-side and D12 can only be scored as a gap No tournament link: archetype meta share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for OCG Maliss, so brick, starter and matchup rates are Inferred Usage stats mark Maliss Q Hearts Crypter and S:P Little Knight as not in this deck, yet both appear in the Extra Deck list with 1 copy each; the reference mapping should be checked Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample