Bystial/Byssted Deck #770413 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Link Summon engine
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Cyberse/Maliss boards (Firewall Dragon, Maliss Red Ransom, Accesscode Talker, Worldsea Dragon Zealantis) and then press with 2300-2500 ATK Link monsters; Bystial Druiswurm / Magnamhut 2500 ATK beatsticks after a hand-trap-protected board
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Maliss or Cyberse starter with Backup @Ignister or Maliss March Hare, use a searcher to find the next Link material, and keep Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence up for the opponent's first interaction (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to spend hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Droll) on the opponent's first board, then Link Summon through the cleared field (Inferred)
• Recovery: Maliss and Mulcharmy draw and GY-banish effects rebuild the hand after a hand-trap-only turn; Mulcharmy draw effects depend on the player controlling no cards (Inferred)
• After siding: Not available: the side deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a Midrange system built around a Maliss/Mulcharmy/@Ignister Cyberse shell with 14 hand traps and 15 Link monsters. Its main strength is interaction density: Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre and Droll give it multiple negation lines, and the 84% chance of at least one hand trap in a going-second six-card hand supports its going-second score. Link monsters at 2300-2500 ATK give it closing power, but the Link engine has no recorded boards, so its ceiling and median are text-only inference. The score is low because the list is illegal: three Forbidden cards and four over-limit copies disqualify the normal contextual score, so this is a structural-only read capped at 30. The deck also runs no side deck, and popularity did not earn points. Card scores were not averaged; the score reflects the system as a whole.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(53.25) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 51.6; modifier -12 (banlist exposure) gives 39.6; illegal-deck cap sets final to 30 (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

• Dense hand-trap suite (14) gives repeatable interaction on both turns
• Link Extra Deck (15 Link monsters) covers many Link-1 to Link-5 options
• 2500 ATK Link and Bystial beatsticks provide closing power

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three Forbidden cards and four copy-limit violations
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Low archetype purity: 70 off-archetype copies across Maliss, Mulcharmy and @Ignister shells

Critical choke points

• Single 3-copy starters in a 5-card opening hand (≈0.25 each) make the opening hand the main failure point
• Going-first hands with no starter and no searcher are dead without a second turn of setup

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 7 copy-limit or banlist violations listed in legality; Main deck 55 and Extra deck 15 are within size rules; Side deck is empty; Archetype purity 0% exact; 70 off-archetype copies; Composition counts: 14 hand traps, 18 tech, 9 searchers, 25 removal-text cards; Usage stats: 3 of 7 core cards present (42.9%)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter, hand-trap and archetype-core odds (opening hand and going-second estimates); Midrange strategy classification from hand-trap density and Link engine; Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Dimension scores D1–D11 and D14 from card text and composition
• Provisional: D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament link, no dated metagame); Meta Power (null)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck supplied (0 cards) No guides for the archetype (0 guides)