Despia Deck #770559 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion-based boss summons from the Extra Deck (Albaz Dragon and Branded/Fallen of Albaz routes) followed by an attack or board-control finish.; Hand-trap and negation disruption that protects the Fallen of Albaz engine so the summoned boss survives the turn.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Despia or Branded starter (Branded Fusion, Branded in High Spirits, Fallen of Albaz, Aluber) to reach a Fusion Summon into an Albaz Dragon boss, protecting it with Ash Blossom or Ghost Ogre.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 16 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Skull Meister, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through the Fusion route.
• Recovery: Recover through Branded in Red and Fallen of Albaz recursion from the GY, and re-Fusion from the Extra Deck if the first boss is removed.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan. Post-side adaptation is unavailable as built.

Why it scores here

The deck's engine is the Fallen of Albaz to Fusion route: a Branded or Despia starter reaches an Albaz Dragon boss, and 20 archetype-core copies give about a 0.91 chance of at least one in an opening 5, which is an Inferred estimate. Sixteen hand traps and negation effects (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Skull Meister, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird) make the deck hold up on the going-second turn, and that interaction is what earns the mid-range scores on D5 and D7. Consistency is held back by low archetype purity (2.9% exact Despia name, with 68 off-archetype copies) and by an empty side deck. No combos, tournament record or guides are attached, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences and none of them is scored from observed boards. Popularity and the archetype's usage data do not add points, and the card scores were not averaged into this result. The deck is Illegal as built (three cards over the copy limit), so the final score is capped low and the evaluation is structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 46, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-6); No side deck (-2); Illegal list (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers, where 0.80*46 + 0.20*35 = 43.8, then -12 modifiers = 31.8, rounded to 32 (Meta provisional; Illegal legality)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · 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

• Dense hand-trap and negation package (16 hand traps) that plays well going second
• Full Extra Deck (13 Fusion, 2 Synchro) with several boss options at 2500-3800 ATK
• Archetype core (Branded/Albaz/Fallen of Albaz) gives a high chance of at least one starter in opening 5

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: three cards over their copy limit
• Very low exact-archetype purity (2.9%), so the engine spreads across sub-archetypes
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz as the central Fusion material; losing it to hand traps or removal breaks most Albaz routes
• Limited cards (Branded Fusion, Branded Opening, Droll & Lock Bird) are one copy each, so losing one removes a key route piece

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; sizes within TCG rules; Three cards over their Semi-Limited copy limits: Ash Blossom, Super Polymerization, The Fallen & The Virtuous; Branded Fusion, Branded Opening, Branded in High Spirits and Droll & Lock Bird are Limited (1 copy each); Composition: 16 hand traps, 13 Fusion, 2 Synchro, 28 distinct main-deck names
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability ≈ 0.91 via the archetype-core proxy; Going-second hand-trap availability ≈ 0.89; Midrange strategy classification from the Fusion route plus hand-trap package; Structural dimension scores (D1–D11, D14)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates No side deck registered, so post-side performance cannot be assessed No guides attached for the archetype Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample