Despia Deck #772423 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Fusion, Synchro, Hand-trap interaction
• 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: Fusion Summon 3000-ATK Albaz Dragons (Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Mirrorjade the Iceblade Dragon, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma) off Fallen of Albaz and Branded Fusion / Super Polymerization; Synchro and Fusion boss follow-up (Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Titaniklad the Ash Dragon, Hyperinvoked Aeon) once the Fallen engine is live
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Mulcharmy or Aluber searches a Branded Spell/Trap, Branded Opening or Branded in High Spirits reaches a Fallen of Albaz or Fallen of the White Dragon, then Branded Fusion or Super Polymerization makes a Level 8 Fusion boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Branded Retribution for the opponent's first search or Special Summon, then rebuild through Fallen of Albaz from the GY via Branded Sword or Ecclesia Synchro
• Recovery: Recover from the GY: Fallen of Albaz and Despia or Branded monsters are re-summonable, and Branded Sword can banish and retrieve a Fallen from the banished zone
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so best-of-three adaptation is absent

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as one connected Fusion system, not as an average of its cards. Its archetype core (22 Despia/Branded/Albaz copies, about 93% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred) gives it a reliable path to Fallen of Albaz, which feeds the 3000-ATK Albaz Dragons that give it closing power. Interaction is layered through Ash Blossom, Droll and Branded Retribution, but three of those interaction pieces are over the OCG copy limit, so the list is not legal as built. The combo floor and median are unknown because no boards were supplied, so the ceiling reads are semantic only. Archetype popularity and usage statistics confirm the list is real, not that it is strong, and no points were given for them. The score is capped low because the list is illegal and it has no side deck.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit overage (-8); Banlist exposure (-2); No side deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal list: theoretical/structural-only. Raw 0.80*57 + 0.20*45 = 54.6, minus 12 modifiers = 43, capped at 35 for copy-limit violations. Meta Power is null (Provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · 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

• Archetype core of 22 Despia, Branded and Albaz copies gives high starter access (Inferred)
• Strong 3000-ATK Fusion boss package (Verified from card data)
• Layered interaction: 4 hand traps, 12 negation-text cards and 17 removal-text cards (Inferred)
• Fallen of Albaz recursion from the GY gives recovery (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy limits on Ash Blossom, The Fallen and The Virtuous, and Super Polymerization (Verified)
• No side deck, so no best-of-three adaptation (Verified)
• Only 5.7% exact-name archetype purity; 66 off-archetype copies weaken engine coherence (Verified)
• Heavy reliance on limited Fusion enablers, with 7 Limited cards at 1 copy each (Verified)

Critical choke points

• Branded Fusion, Branded Opening and Branded in High Spirits are each 1 copy, so losing one breaks the Fallen Fusion route
• Fallen of Albaz is the single hub for the Albaz boss package, so one answer to it stops the line
• Super Polymerization is over the copy limit and must be cut to 2 to be legal

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal with three over-limit cards; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 counts within size rules; Copy histogram 22/3/9 and card text for Albaz bosses; Seven Limited cards each run at 1 copy
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.93 from the archetype core; Interaction density from negation and removal text; Going-second hand-trap estimate of 0.38; Choke point read on Fallen of Albaz
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample; Combo floor and median: no recorded boards
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck has no title and no side deck