Maliss Deck #770292 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-ladder pressure: Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon (5000 ATK) and Maliss / Firewall Link Monsters, with Maliss Trap and banish loops feeding Link Summons (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards).; Hand-trap-led disruption that keeps the opponent off the board long enough for a Link-3 or Link-4 follow-up (Inferred).
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening 5: Maliss monster or Backup @Ignister, then a Link Summon through Maliss Chessy Cat / March Hare, with Infinite Impermanence or Ash Blossom held for the first opposing starter (Inferred).
• Turn 2 (going second): Opening 6: hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Dominus Impulse) stop the first 1-2 plays, then Perfectron or Bystial Magnamhut recovers the board (Inferred).
• Recovery: Maliss banish-from-GY revivals (Maliss MTP-07, Maliss TB-11, Maliss

  Dormouse) and Cynet Mining or Terraforming to rebuild a Link monster after a wipe (Inferred).

• After siding: None. The deck runs zero Side Deck cards, so there is no defined post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck's engine is coherent enough to open: the archetype core is present in roughly 91% of opening 5-card hands by a proxy count, and the Extra Deck carries eight Maliss/Cyberse Link pieces that can be reached through several routes. Its interaction layer is the strongest part of the system, with about 12 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards and 23 removal-text cards, and it converts well going second, where at least one hand trap is in the opening 6 about 78% of the time. Structural power is held back by 21% exact-name archetype purity (79% off-archetype copies), 56 Main Deck cards that dilute the engine, and a brick-prone set of conditional traps and non-engine monsters. The score comes from consistency, interaction and going-second behaviour on the system as a whole, not from averaging the card scores, and not from Maliss being a popular archetype. Because the list is illegal (a Forbidden Link Decoder and three copies of a Semi-Limited card), the final score is capped at 30 and the evaluation is theoretical and structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 63, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); illegal-list cap (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 55.2, then context modifiers (-12) = 43.2; capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural only, no normal Final score).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.09 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Deep hand-trap and negation layer (12 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards) that is strong going second
• Full Extra Deck with Link-1 through Link-5 coverage and high-ATK finishers such as Perfectron
• Core archetype cards are reachable in most opening hands (proxy 0.915)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: a Forbidden Link Decoder and an over-limit Semi-Limited Maliss in Underground
• Low archetype purity (21%) and 56 Main cards dilute the engine
• No side deck at all, so there is no post-side adaptation
• Brick risk from conditional traps and off-engine monsters such as Mulcharmy and Backup @Ignister

Critical choke points

• Link Decoder (Forbidden) cannot be run in OCG, so any line that depends on it is illegal
• Maliss Link monsters in the Extra Deck are the only route to the engine; if they are blocked, most of the Main Deck becomes dead

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Link Decoder (Forbidden, 1 copy), Maliss in Underground (3 copies vs limit 2); Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0; both legal size ranges pass; Card text and banlist statuses for all 56 Main and 15 Extra cards; Exact-name archetype purity 21.1% (15 of 71 Maliss-named copies)
• Inferred: Midrange primary with Control secondary, from text and hand-trap density; Core availability P(>=1) = 0.915 (proxy group); Going-second hand-trap availability 0.78 (hypergeometric); Structural scores D1 to D14 as stated
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated sample, no tournament link); Side Deck adaptability (no post-side data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first, matchup, brick and starter rates) usage_statistics in_this_deck flags count only the Main Deck; Extra Deck cards (Maliss Hearts Crypter, White Binder, Accesscode Talker, Cyberse Wicckid, Firewall Dragon, Haggard Lizardose, Linguriboh, Salamangreat Almiraj) are marked absent although they are in the card list Deck title is null Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample