Maliss Deck #771120 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 34/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange
• 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: Maliss Link-3/4 monsters (Red Ransom, Hearts Crypter, Accesscode Talker) breaking boards through Maliss banish-and-revive loops and Link material, conditional on the Maliss Trap/Spell engine being live; Bystial Druiswurm / Magnamhut 2500-ATK beaters and Nibiru as non-engine pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Maliss monster (March Hare / Chessy Cat) with Backup or Wizard @Ignister support, search a Maliss Trap, then Link Summon Maliss Link monsters and bank banished Maliss cards for board breaking
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) to stop the opponent's first Summon, then rebuild through Maliss Link Summons
• Recovery: Recover through Maliss in Underground / Maliss traps that revive from GY and banish-based search, plus Cyberse extenders (Link Disciple, Link Spider) to rebuild Link material
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan to assess

Why it scores here

This OCG list is Illegal: three cards exceed their OCG copy limits (Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies where the limit is 2, Allure of Darkness at 2 where the limit is 1), so it receives a capped, theoretical/structural-only score rather than a normal final read. Within that frame, the core Maliss engine is reasonably accessible (P(at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening) ≈ 0.94, Inferred), and the 15-card Extra Deck of Link monsters gives real board-breaking ceiling. However, the main deck is split across roughly ten sub-archetypes and generic utility (only 15 of 55 main cards are exact Maliss names, 21.4% purity), which weakens engine cohesion and raises brick and dead-card risk. No combo boards, guides, or tournament data exist, so floor, median, and ceiling are inferred from card text only. The score comes from consistency, interaction density, and the Extra Deck on the system, not from the Maliss archetype's popularity (the usage stats only confirm the list is real, with 56% of core cards present) and not from averaging individual card scores; a Side Deck is absent, which lowers the adaptability read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 47.5, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: 0.80*Structural(47.5) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 46, then context modifiers (-12) = 34; theoretical/structural-only; Meta Power provisional/null

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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 interaction suite: 11 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards, and 27 removal-text cards
• Strong Extra Deck coverage with 15 Link monsters across several routes
• High archetype-core access (≈0.94 for at least one core card in a 5-card opening)

Weaknesses

• Three copy-limit violations make the list illegal in OCG
• Low exact-archetype purity (21.4%) across roughly ten sub-archetypes weakens engine cohesion
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No combo or guide evidence to verify the conversion ceiling

Critical choke points

• Maliss monster and trap access during the opening, because the Link engine depends on a few named Maliss starters
• Link material availability for the Link-3/4 monsters, which depends on Cyberse and Maliss extenders

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 counts and OCG size rules; Copy-limit violations: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 versus limit 2; Allure of Darkness at 2 versus limit 1; Card stats and text excerpts; Archetype spread: 15 exact Maliss copies out of 55 main cards
• Observed: Usage statistics: 56% of the 25 tracked core cards are present; core cards cover 14 of 25
• Inferred: Archetype-core access ≈ 0.94 in a 5-card opening (hypergeometric); Hand-trap and searcher access estimates; Interaction density scored from text plus role flags; Engine cohesion read from sub-archetype spread
• Provisional: Meta Power left null: no dated metagame sample; Matchup and format-fit read (D13); Tournament reliability: no tournament or win-rate data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) Meta Power provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck has no title and no Side Deck, which limits the post-side read Illegal list: a normal Final Contextual score is not supported until copy limits are fixed