@Ignister Deck #772856 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Stun
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• 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 pressure from the Maliss, Ignister and Code Talker Link monsters, closing through the Extra Deck and a Bystial or Maliss board; Hand-trap and negation control that trades interaction for tempo before the Link line goes off
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Backup @Ignister or a Maliss monster, use the Tuner-based Special Summon route to reach a Link-2 or Link-3 board, and hold Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence for the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Droll and Ghost Belle to stop the opponent's first Special Summon or search, then rebuild a Link board from the hand
• Recovery: Rebuild from the GY through Maliss and Ignister recursion effects, using banished Maliss cards for the Link-summon route
• After siding: Not evaluable: the side deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan in the list

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal as submitted: it runs 3 copies of Allure of Darkness (limit 1), 3 copies of Ash Blossom and 3 copies of Dominus Impulse (limit 2 each), so under the rubric it is capped and labelled theoretical or structural only. Structurally, the list is built around hand traps and negation (17 hand-trap cards, 20 negation-text cards) feeding a Link-summon route through the Maliss, Ignister and Code Talker families. The engine is reasonably accessible: P(at least one of the 17 archetype-core cards in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.86, but only 4 cards carry the exact @Ignister name and purity is 5.7%, so the core is spread across sub-archetypes. Floor and median output cannot be measured because the deck has no recorded boards, and the 14 Link and Xyz Extra Deck cards are not supported by any combo data. Popularity and archetype usage confirm that the deck is real and accessible, but they earned no points here; no card scores were averaged, and the deck was scored as a system.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); illegal_cap (-8). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 47.2, then context modifiers (-6 banlist exposure, -8 illegal cap); Illegal legality cap sets the final score to 25 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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 negation suite (17 hand traps, 20 negation-text cards) that is strong on going second
• Archetype core is accessible: about 0.86 chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand
• Layered interaction across hand, field and GY (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler, Droll and Lock Bird)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three cards exceed their in-format copy limits
• Low archetype purity (5.7% exact name) with 66 off-archetype copies, so the engine is split across sub-archetypes
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Several core Cyberse Link pieces from the usage stats (for example Cyberse Wicckid, Allied Code Talker, Accesscode Talker) are missing

Critical choke points

• Only 4 exact-name @Ignister cards and 2 Backup @Ignister, so the Ignister Extra Deck route depends on a few starters
• Single-copy Link pieces (Hearts Crypter, Red Ransom, Link Disciple) mean any one lost piece breaks that route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 3 copy-limit violations (Allure of Darkness, Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse); main 55 and extra 15 are within the OCG size rules; side 0 is within rules; Archetype purity 5.7% (4 exact-name cards); usage stats show 25 core cards, 12 present; Side deck is empty
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter access: about 0.86 for the archetype core in a 5-card hand; Hand-trap and negation density suggests Stun-style interaction; Brick and redundancy estimates from copy histogram and tech density; Dimension scores D1 to D14
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample exists; Matchup fit (D13) and tournament reliability depend on an absent meta context
• 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 absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first and going-second split, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Side deck is empty: no post-side evidence