@Ignister Deck #771537 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon 3000-ATK Link-5 and Link-4 bosses (Firewall Dragon Darkfluid, Mediclius the Extraordinary Power Patron) off a Maliss or Ignister starter chain; Maliss Link monsters banished and recurred through Maliss Trap effects, with Ars Magna searchers feeding the Extra Deck
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Backup @Ignister or Maliss White Rabbit starter, search a Maliss or Ignister Link path, and Link Summon into a board the opponent cannot easily disrupt. Going-first lines are unverified because no combo boards were supplied.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Droll & Lock Bird for the opponent's first Special Summon or search, then rebuild through Maliss Traps. Hand-trap density is the main defence.
• Recovery: Recur banished Maliss Links with Maliss traps, and recover Ars Magna searchers from the GY or banishment. Recovery depends on the Maliss sub-engine, which is only partly supported by the 3-copy Maliss in Underground.
• After siding: No side deck is run (side count 0), so there is no post-side plan. Best-of-3 adaptation is not possible as built.

Why it scores here

This is a theoretical, structural-only read because the list is illegal in OCG: three copies of Maliss in Underground exceed the Semi-Limited cap of two, and Charmer Quartet in Bloom and Link Decoder are Forbidden. The structural score comes from the system: the Ignister and Maliss starters have about a one-in-three chance of appearing in a 5-card opening hand, the 9 hand traps and 7 negation-text cards give interaction depth, and Link Summon boards reach 3000 ATK. The deck has no recorded boards, so the floor and median are inferred from text only. Popularity does not earn points: the Ignister core is present but the archetype purity is 9.1%, and the 50 off-archetype copies are scored as a structural cost, not averaged from card scores. The final score is capped low because the list is illegal, and it would need legal copy counts before a normal contextual score applies.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 54, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); no Side Deck (-2). Final formula: No dated meta: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*50 + 0.20*35 - 12 = 35. Illegal list, so theoretical/structural-only and low-capped.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Large hand-trap and negation suite (9 hand traps, 7 negation-text cards) for going second
• High-ATK Link bosses (3000 ATK Firewall Dragon Darkfluid and Mediclius) close the game
• Multiple recursion routes through Maliss Traps and Ars Magna searchers

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: copy-limit and Forbidden violations make the deck unplayable as built
• Low archetype purity (9.1%) and 50 off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• No side deck and no recorded boards to measure consistency

Critical choke points

• Maliss banish costs and the Maliss Link-enabler line: losing the Maliss Link pieces stalls the Maliss sub-engine
• Extra Deck slots spent on Forbidden Links: the list cannot be legally submitted until they are removed

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal in OCG: Maliss in Underground at 3 copies (limit 2), Charmer Quartet in Bloom and Link Decoder Forbidden; Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 (within OCG size rules); Archetype purity is 9.1% exact-name; 50 off-archetype copies; Removal-text 21, negation-text 7, hand-trap 9
• Inferred: Starter P(at least one in hand 5) ≈ 0.34 for 3-copy cards; Going-second hand-trap P(at least one in hand 6) ≈ 0.81; Interaction depth from card text (layered negations and removal)
• Provisional: Meta fit and matchup coverage (no dated metagame sample or tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rate Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck has no title and no side deck