Despia Deck #771724 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fallen of Albaz and Branded/Albaz fusion lines into Albion, Titaniklad or Dragon-type boss monsters that the opponent must answer on board; Hand-trap and negate-driven disruption that protects the Fallen of Albaz line through the opponent's turn
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Branded Fusion or Branded Opening with a Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of the White Dragon starter, reach a Level 8 Fusion boss, and keep Ash Blossom or Ghost Ogre up for the opponent's response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 12 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Skull Meister, Effect Veiler) to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild through Aluber or Blazing Cartesia into a Fusion boss
• Recovery: Recover through Branded Retribution, Tri-Brigade Mercourier and Springans Kitt from the GY, and through Fallen-named Fusion materials returning from the GY
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

This OCG Despia list is built around a Fallen of Albaz and Branded fusion engine with a dense hand-trap and negate suite, and the structure is coherent on paper. Its 12 hand traps and roughly 15 negate or removal texts give it strong interaction density and a good going-second plan, and the Level 8 fusion bosses give a real closing threat. However, the deck runs three copies each of Ash Blossom, The Fallen & The Virtuous and Super Polymerization, which exceed their Semi-Limited limit of 2, so it is Illegal and does not receive a normal Final Contextual score. No combo boards, guides, tournament data or side deck were supplied, so floor, median and matchup scores are inferred from card text and composition only. Popularity of the Despia archetype was not credited, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); empty_side_deck (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap: uncapped 0.80*61 + 0.20*50 - 12 = 46.8, capped to 35; theoretical/structural-only, no normal Final Contextual score

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.26 · 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 hand-trap and negate suite (12 hand traps, about 15 negate texts) that handles going second
• Fallen of Albaz fusion engine with Level 8 bosses that can close the game
• Good Extra Deck coverage across Fusion and Synchro options

Weaknesses

• Illegal: three cards exceed their OCG Semi-Limited copy limit
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Low single-card starter density (about 0.26 per copy-3 card in a 5-card hand) makes the engine fragile on going first
• Heavy tech and staple count adds bulk to a 54-card main

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz as the Fusion material gate for most boss lines
• Branded Fusion as a Limited single-copy choke point
• Dependence on Level 8 Fusion monsters requiring specific materials

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: three cards run 3 copies against an OCG Semi-Limited limit of 2; Main deck 54 cards, Extra deck 15 cards, Side deck 0 cards; Archetype Despia; 37 generic-archetype and 5 exact-name Despia copies
• Inferred: Starter probability of about 0.26 per copy-3 card in an opening 5-card hand; Hand-trap access about 0.80 of at least one in a 6-card hand going second; Interaction density from 12 hand traps and about 15 negate texts
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Median and floor output (no combos supplied)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied - combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link - archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN - going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied side deck empty - no post-side evidence