@Ignister Deck #770932 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Link-5 and Link-4 boss monsters from the Maliss, Ignister, Firewall and Topologic lines (Topologic Blaster Dragon 3500 ATK, Firewall Dragon Darkfluid 3000 ATK, Topologic Zeroboros 3000 ATK) and convert the board with direct and piercing pressure.; Recursion-based Maliss and Ignister Link loops from the GY and banish zones, with Allied Code Talker and Maliss Hearts Crypter as recurring boss options.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Backup @Ignister or Maliss March Hare and Chessy Cat to search or Special Summon, then reach a Link Summon with the Link Monsters available in the Extra Deck.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold up Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Lock Bird and Nibiru to interrupt the opponent's first board before deploying the Link line.
• Recovery: Recover through Maliss GY-recursion effects, Backup @Ignister recursion and Maliss in the Mirror banish-and-add effects to rebuild the Link monsters after a clean interruption.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no defined post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games.

Why it scores here

The deck opens with a high-probability archetype core (P(at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand) about 0.91, Inferred from the hypergeometric table), and the searcher text group reaches about 0.65 in the opening hand, so engine access is reasonable. Its interaction layer is the strongest part of the system: 12 hand traps and 18 negation-text cards give a going-second hand-trap probability of about 0.79, which earns the end-board interaction score. Conversion and median output cannot be measured because no recorded boards exist, so the combo dimensions rest on text-only inference and are scored conservatively. Structural power is held down by low archetype purity (7.1 percent exact-name purity, 65 of 70 copies off the named archetype) that splits the engine across Maliss, Ignister, Dominus, Mulcharmy and Cyber, and by the complete absence of a Side Deck. The deck is Illegal under the OCG ban list: three cards exceed their legal copy limits, so it does not receive a normal Final Contextual score and is capped at 30 as a theoretical, structural-only read. Popularity and archetype usage stats were not used to raise the score, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange profile used (primary); Control influence noted in strategy classification, not blended numerically. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (copy-limit violations) (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(53.2) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) = 51.0, plus modifiers (-12) = 39.0; Illegal-deck cap applied, theoretical/structural-only, final score 30

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · 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

• Archetype core is highly accessible (about 0.91 at least one in a 5-card opening hand)
• Dense, layered interaction: 12 hand traps and 18 negation-text cards, with a going-second hand-trap probability of about 0.79
• Multiple Link-5 and Link-4 bosses at 3000 to 3500 ATK give strong closing power
• Several independent Link lines (Maliss, Ignister, Firewall, Topologic) give redundancy against single interruptions

Weaknesses

• Illegal under the OCG ban list: three cards exceed their legal copy limits
• Very low archetype purity (7.1 percent exact name), so the engine is split across sub-archetypes
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combos, so conversion and median output cannot be validated
• Heavy reliance on hand traps and interaction, which weakens the opening when the hand has no interaction

Critical choke points

• Legal copy limits: the deck must cut to 2 Ash Blossom, 2 Dominus Impulse and 1 Allure of Darkness before it can be scored normally
• Going-first openings with no Link-enabling starter, since the archetype core is split across sub-archetypes
• No Side Deck means any matchup-specific interruption falls entirely on the main deck

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal with three copy-limit violations (Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse 3 vs 2 legal, Allure of Darkness 2 vs 1); Main deck 55 cards, Extra Deck 15 cards, Side Deck 0 cards; Card text and stat values for all listed cards (from the deck evidence); Archetype purity 7.1 percent exact name, 65 off-archetype copies
• Observed: Core usage statistics for the @Ignister archetype (inclusion percentages from usage_statistics)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand access and hand-trap probabilities (about 0.91 core, 0.65 searcher, 0.79 going-second hand trap); Interaction density and board-breaking ratings from card text; Engine coherence and brick risk from composition and sub-archetype spread
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability (no tournament link or per-pilot record)
• 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/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck is registered, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Deck title is null, so the deck is identified only by its archetype and id