Despia Deck #772628 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 42/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 12 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Level 8+ boss monsters (Masquerade, Mirrorjade, Titaniklad, Lubellion) off Despia and Branded engines, with Fallen of Albaz as the fusion-material hub; Aluber and Dramaturge-driven negation and pressure off Despia Fusion Monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Polymerization-family spells and Branded Opening or Fusion to reach Fallen of Albaz, then Fusion Summon a boss monster; Frightfur Patchwork and Edge Imp Chain thin toward the material set
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Nibiru as hand-trap interaction, then rebuild a board through Fallen of Albaz and Branded Banishment or Branded Sword
• Recovery: Despian Tragedy, Branded in Red and Aluber recursion from the GY, with Blazing Cartesia summoned back when Fallen of Albaz is in the GY
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan in the export

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal as submitted: it runs 3 copies of Allure of Darkness (OCG limit 1) and 3 of Super Polymerization (limit 2), so the score is a capped theoretical read and not a normal Final Contextual score. Structurally, the Despia core is reasonably accessible: the 12 archetype-core copies give about 72% odds of at least one in an opening 5-card hand, and the searcher text group about 91%. Interaction is the strongest pillar, with 7 hand traps, 12 negation-text cards and 12 removal-text cards, which supports the going-second read. Consistency is held back by 28 Spells, 14 tech cards outside the archetype, 17 singletons, and a deck with no Side Deck, which lowers the brick and best-of-3 scores. The score comes from consistency, interaction and the fusion-boss closing power on the system, not from Despia being a popular archetype and not from averaging the individual card scores; no combo boards were supplied, so the floor and median are inferred from text only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Copy-limit violation (-10); No Side Deck (-2). Final formula: Theoretical only (Illegal, not a normal Final): 0.80*Structural(56) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 53.8, then modifiers -12 and capped to 42; Meta Power provisional/null

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.72 · 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 Fusion-boss route through Fallen of Albaz and Branded Fusion
• Strong interaction count: 7 hand traps, 12 negation-text cards and 12 removal-text cards
• Core archetype cards have a high chance of appearing in an opening hand

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: copy-limit violations on two cards
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• 14 off-archetype tech cards and 28 Spells add brick risk and dilute the engine
• Mostly singleton main-deck slots reduce redundancy for the fusion starter

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz is the material hub for Branded Fusion, Lubellion, Titaniklad and Mirrorjade, so losing it to disruption breaks most boss routes
• Branded Fusion is a single copy and is the main Fusion Summon enabler

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Allure of Darkness 3/1 and Super Polymerization 3/2 over limit; Main 55 and Extra 12 within OCG size rules; Side 0 is legal; Card stats and text for all 33+ resolved cards; Usage stat: Branded Fusion core, Fallen of Albaz core present
• Inferred: Core starter access ~0.72 at 5-card hand; Hand-trap access ~0.58 on going-second 6-card hand; Interaction, brick and consistency read from text and composition
• Provisional: Median output and floor (no combo boards); Meta and matchup fit (no tournament link or dated sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: 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, going-second and matchup rates unknown Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty, so post-side scoring is unavailable