Despia Deck #771687 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 18 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Level 8+ boss monsters (Titaniklad, Brigrand, Dramaturge-style bodies) through Fallen of Albaz and Branded fusion enablers (Inferred); Despia and Albaz Dragon fusion boards with Lubellion, Mirrorjade and Rindbrumm once the core is complete (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Fallen of Albaz or Aluber, search or fuse through Branded Fusion / Super Polymerization into a Level 8+ boss (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Ash Blossom and Branded Retribution to disrupt the opponent's first combo, then rebuild a Fusion line from the GY (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recursion through Despian Tragedy, Dogmatika and Branded recursion spells in the GY (Inferred)
• After siding: None: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan. Illegal list, so this is structural only.

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal in OCG as submitted: Ash Blossom and The Fallen & The Virtuous are each run three times against a limit of two, and the Extra Deck holds 18 cards against a maximum of 15. The score is therefore capped and labelled structural-only, not a normal final score. Structurally, the Despia and Branded fusion engine has a real ceiling: Fallen of Albaz and the Branded spells enable several Level 8+ bosses, and the 14 negation-text cards and three hand traps give it interaction. The median is held down by the 28 level-0 spells and traps, the 52-card main deck with only 15.7% exact-name archetype purity, and the absence of a Side Deck. No combo boards, tournament data or win rates were supplied, so no power was credited for popularity or meta share, and the score was not built by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Combo secondary (illegal, structural-only). Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: illegal_list_cap (-20); no Side Deck (-3); banlist exposure (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap: final = min(Structural 50, 30) with structural-only label; no 0.80/0.20 blend applied

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.27 · 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

• Strong Fusion enabler density: Fallen of Albaz, Branded Fusion and Super Polymerization support several Level 8+ bosses
• Layered interaction: Ash Blossom, Branded Retribution, Dramaturge of Despia and Dark Ruler No More
• GY recursion keeps the engine going after disruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: copy limits and Extra Deck size both exceeded
• No Side Deck
• Low archetype purity (15.7%) and 28 level-0 spells and traps lower consistency
• Several core cards are missing from the list (Rindbrumm, Titaniklad, Lubellion, Mirrorjade), so the usage-core coverage is only 44%

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (3 copies) is the single enabler for most Fusion routes
• Branded Fusion and Super Polymerization are both Limited or Semi-Limited, so the deck relies on one copy each

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal: Ash Blossom x3 vs limit 2; The Fallen & The Virtuous x3 vs limit 2; Extra Deck 18 exceeds the OCG maximum of 15; Side Deck is 0 cards; Exact-name archetype purity 15.7%
• Observed: Usage stats: Fallen of Albaz present in 69% of archetype lists; core present 44% (11 of 25)
• Inferred: Consistency and brick estimates from hypergeometric draw odds; Engine ceiling and interaction read from card text
• Provisional: Meta fit (no tournament link, no dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null