Maliss Deck #771340 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon chains of Maliss Link Monsters (Hearts Crypter, White Binder, Accesscode Talker, Firewall Dragon Darkfluid) into 2300-5000 ATK boards, with Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon as a removal finisher; Maliss trap recursion and Maliss Link pressure from the GY and banished zone
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Maliss monsters and Backup/Wizard @Ignister starters, Link Summon into a Maliss Link, and use Maliss traps to add or recycle pieces; hold Droll and Ash for the opponent's responses
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Ghost Ogre) and Solemn Judgment to stop the opposing starter, then rebuild from the GY and banished Maliss
• Recovery: Re-Special Summon Maliss monsters from GY and banishment via Maliss traps and Maliss in the Mirror, then re-Link Summon through the remaining Link Monsters
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck's Maliss core (23 archetype copies) gives a P(at least one archetype card in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.95, so the engine is usually reachable on turn 1, which supports a solid D1 score. Its interaction density is high (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Solemn Judgment, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, and Solemn Accusation), which lifts the end-board and going-second scores. Floor and median output cannot be judged because the export has no recorded boards, so the combo scores are text-only inferences. The score is capped at 30 because the list is illegal: Maliss in Underground runs 3 copies against a limit of 2, Link Decoder is Forbidden in OCG, and the Extra Deck holds 17 cards against a maximum of 15. The score was not derived by averaging card scores, and popularity (archetype usage stats) did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Illegal list cap (-15.8); Banlist exposure (-3); No side deck (-2); Engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 52.8 before modifiers; modifiers -7 gives 45.8; capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (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 dense: 23 Maliss-family copies give about 0.95 chance of at least one in an opening hand
• Layered interaction: 8 hand traps plus Solemn Judgment, Solemn Accusation, and Ghost Ogre
• Link Summon end-boards reach 2300-5000 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: over the copy limit on Maliss in Underground and Forbidden Link Decoder present
• Extra Deck exceeds the 15-card OCG limit
• No side deck
• No combo data to measure floor or median output

Critical choke points

• Maliss in Underground and Link Decoder must be removed before the list is playable
• Heavy reliance on Maliss Link Monsters to convert; losing the Link pieces removes most pressure

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: OCG legality: Link Decoder Forbidden; Maliss in Underground Semi-Limited (limit 2, run 3); Extra Deck 17 vs limit 15; Card text and stats for every listed card; Hypergeometric opening-hand probabilities from the main deck
• Inferred: Consistency estimate from archetype core and starter probability; Interaction density from role tags and removal/negation text; Going-first and going-second splits from hand trap counts
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format-fit scores (no tournament data)
• 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, going-second and matchup rates are unknown no side deck registered; post-side plan cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied