Maliss Deck #772853 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-based board pressure from Maliss Link Monsters (Red Ransom, Hearts Crypter, Dormouse and Chessy Cat chain) with Ritual Mitsurugi boards as a secondary threat; Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi and Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi as large Reptile beatsticks after a Mitsurugi Ritual or Mitsurugi Magatama route
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Maliss Chessy Cat or March Hare with Maliss Link fodder, then a Maliss Trap or Link Summon to build a board; Ash Blossom and Droll are held for the first opposing activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Droll and Lock Bird) answer the opponent's first board, then Maliss Link Summons or Ritual Mitsurugi rebuild the field
• Recovery: Mitsurugi and Maliss search effects (Mikoto, Kusanagi, Maliss MTP-07, Maliss in the Mirror) and Maliss Traps in the GY reload the hand and Extra Deck access
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; this is a reduced-adaptability weakness

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in OCG as submitted (four cards over their copy limits), so it receives no normal Final Contextual score and is capped at 25 as a theoretical, structural-only read. Its Maliss core is real: about 90% of the archetype core has at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and the 15-card Link Extra Deck is fully used with Maliss, Code Talker and Cyberse Links. Interaction is the strongest part of the system, with six hand traps, nine negation texts and 24 removal texts, which earns D7 at 62 (Inferred from text). The score is pulled down by a mixed engine (Maliss 15 exact-name copies, Mitsurugi 16, generic 21, plus @Ignister and Mulcharmy), which lowers consistency and brick resistance, and by the absence of a Side Deck, recorded combos, or tournament data. No card scores were averaged; the score reflects the deck as a connected system.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox weights not applied to the score. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violations (-12); Limited or Semi-Limited key cards (-3). Final formula: Illegal deck: theoretical structural-only cap. Uncapped 0.80*Structural(47) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) ≈ 46, capped to 25 under the Illegal rule. Meta Power is null (Provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.1 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core Maliss starters have high odds of at least one copy in opening hands (about 90% for the archetype-core group, Inferred)
• Dense interaction package: six hand traps and about nine negation texts (Inferred from text)
• Full 15-slot Link Extra Deck with broad archetype coverage

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: four over-limit cards must be cut before the deck can be played in OCG
• Mixed engine (Maliss, Mitsurugi, @Ignister, Mulcharmy) lowers exact-name purity to 21.7% and increases brick risk
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan
• No recorded combos, tournament context, or win-rate evidence

Critical choke points

• Maliss Link Monster on field is the key to most Maliss plays; losing it to one interruption leaves few alternate routes
• Hand-trap dependence on Ash Blossom and Droll for going-second interaction (Ash is over the limit as built)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: four over-limit cards and the Illegal status; Main 54 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; Side 0 is legal; Extra Deck is 15 Link Monsters; Hand-trap count 6 and removal text count 24
• Inferred: Archetype-core opening-hand estimate P(>=1) ≈ 0.90; Brick and conflict risk from mixed-archetype composition; Interaction quality from negation and removal text; Going-second hand-trap estimate ≈ 0.52
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated meta sample); Matchup coverage
• 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, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown No Side Deck registered: post-side plan cannot be evaluated No guides attached for the archetype