Maliss Deck #772906 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 34/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Maliss Link monsters (Red Ransom, Hearts Crypter, Decode Talker Heatsoul, Accesscode Talker) to build a board and push damage with 2300-2500 ATK bosses; Ars Magna and Medius/Theorealize recursion and searcher chains as a grind route into the same Link boards
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Maliss Chessy Cat / March Hare / Dormouse / White Rabbit draw-and-search chain into a Link-2 or Link-3 Maliss board, supported by a 2-card starter pair (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold up 12 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru, Evenly Matched) to answer the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through Maliss Link and searcher text (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through searcher-text cards (15 copies) and GY/banish recursion via Maliss in Underground and Maliss TB-11 / MTP-07; not verified by recorded boards
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run 3 copies against an OCG limit of 2, so the score is a theoretical, structural-only read capped low. Its Maliss core (P(at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand) about 0.87, Inferred) gives it a reasonably reliable path to a Link board, and the 12 hand traps plus 31 removal-text cards make it strong at answering a going-second opponent (about 79% chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand, Inferred). Output and closing power are unmeasured because no combos or tournament data were supplied, so the ceiling and floor scores are text-based estimates. Archetype purity is only 18.6% (13 exact-name Maliss copies out of 70), with 57 off-archetype copies spread across Mulcharmy, Ars Magna, Medius, Ignister, Bystial and generic cards; this dilutes engine coherence and lowers the main-deck efficiency score. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 44, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 0.80*49 + 0.20*35 = 46.2, then Illegal-status modifier -12 gives about 34

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · 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

• 12 hand traps and 3 floodgate cards give strong interaction on going second
• 31 removal-text cards and 15 searcher-text cards support recursion and grind
• Maliss core is present in about 87% of opening hands (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring run 3 copies against a limit of 2
• Only 18.6% exact-archetype purity; 57 off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded combos, so output floor and ceiling are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom over-limit copy must be cut before the list can be played in OCG
• Maliss Link Summon routes depend on a small number of Link enablers (Chessy Cat, March Hare, Dormouse, White Rabbit)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs legal 2; Main deck 55 cards, Extra 15, Side 0; within size rules; Banlist status for Limited cards (Bystial Druiswurm, Magnamhut, Droll & Lock Bird, Gold Sarcophagus, Feather Duster, S:P Little Knight, Terraforming) each run at 1 copy and are legal; Archetype purity 18.6% (13 of 70 exact-name copies)
• Observed: Composition: 12 hand traps, 19 tech, 3 floodgates, 15 searcher-text, 31 removal-text
• Inferred: P(at least one archetype-core card in hand of 5) about 0.87; Going-second hand-trap density about 0.79 for at least one in 6 cards; Maliss Link routes as main line; interaction strength
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame or tournament link
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: 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, going-second and matchup signals are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null, so the deck is identified only by archetype and id