Maliss Deck #772763 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• 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: Link Summon Maliss Link monsters (Red Ransom, Hearts Crypter, Accesscode Talker) and convert the board with ATK pressure and Maliss recursion; Hand-trap-supported Cyberse/@Ignister board with Wizard @Ignister and Backup @Ignister extending into Link monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Maliss Chessy Cat / March Hare / Dormouse starter, search with Backup @Ignister or Maliss searchers, and Link Summon a 2300-2500 ATK Link monster; hold Ash Blossom / Dominus Impulse as interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand traps (Ash Blossom, D.D. Crow, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Nibiru, Dominus Spark) to disrupt the opponent's board, then rebuild a Maliss Link board from the GY and banish zone
• Recovery: Maliss in Underground and the Maliss Traps (GWC-06, TB-11, MTP-07) recur Maliss monsters from GY and banish; Dimensional Fissure is a floodgate that restricts GY recursion for both players
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: 18 archetype-core copies give an estimated 87% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), so the Maliss engine usually starts. Strong interaction (11 hand-trap texts, Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse, Ghost Ogre, Nibiru, Dominus Spark) and Maliss recursion through the Maliss Traps help it survive disruption and rebuild. The Link Monster finishers (2300 to 2500 ATK) give closing pressure, but there is no recorded board data, so ceiling and median are text-only estimates. Popularity of the Maliss archetype does not earn points, and no card scores were averaged. The list is illegal: three cards exceed their OCG copy limits, which caps the final score at 20 and makes the rest of the evaluation theoretical only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Stun secondary (weights used: Midrange profile, disclosed). Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-4); No side deck (-3); Hard-garnet and dead-card burden (-3). Final formula: Illegal legality cap applied: uncapped 0.80*58 (Structural) + 0.20*45 (TR) = 55, capped to 20 because the list breaks copy limits. Evaluation is theoretical/structural only. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.13 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core Maliss engine is highly accessible (about 87% to have a core card in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred)
• Layered interaction: hand traps, Dominus Impulse, Typhoon, Maliss in the Mirror, Link negation
• Recursion through Maliss Traps and Maliss in Underground
• Extra Deck of 15 Link monsters with 2300 to 2500 ATK closers

Weaknesses

• Illegal: three cards exceed their OCG copy limits
• No side deck
• Several dead or conditional main-deck cards (Dimensional Fissure, Terraforming, Gold Sarcophagus)
• No recorded combos or tournament data to verify the ceiling

Critical choke points

• A single Maliss starter in hand is required for the first Link Summon; a hand without one is a brick
• Hand traps depend on specific timing and once-per-turn limits, so a missed window loses the interaction

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: three copy-limit violations (Allure of Darkness, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Dominus Impulse); Main deck 55 and Extra deck 15 match OCG size rules; Card text for all 40 cards from the evidence pack; Banlist status per card
• Inferred: Core engine accessibility about 87% (hypergeometric); Brick and dead-card rate estimates; Interaction quality and going-second hand-trap coverage; Ceiling and closing power from text reads
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: ceiling, median and floor are text-only inference No tournament link: no archetype meta-share or pilot record No win-rate data exists for this deck Meta Power is Provisional; no dated metagame sample supplied No side deck registered, so post-side performance is unknown