Maliss Deck #773176 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Maliss Link-3 boards (Maliss Red Ransom and Maliss Hearts Crypter) reached through Maliss banish and revival lines, closing with 2300-2500 ATK links; Extra-Deck link beatsticks (Underworld Goddess, Firewall Dragon, Fancy Ball, Accesscode Talker) once the board is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Maliss starter (March Hare or Chessy Cat, roughly 25% each in a 5-card hand) and convert into a Link Summon; hold hand traps for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Impermanence, Ash, Dominus Impulse, Crow, Nibiru, Droll; about 75% to hold at least one) to break the opponent's first Link or Special Summon, then rebuild through Maliss recursion
• Recovery: Recover Maliss monsters and traps from the GY and banished zone via Maliss in Underground, Maliss in the Mirror and the Maliss Trap summons, and re-link
• After siding: None. The deck has zero Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan in a best-of-3 event

Why it scores here

The deck's structure is a Maliss-core hybrid: the Maliss engine (March Hare, Chessy Cat, Dormouse, White Rabbit, the Maliss traps and two Maliss Links) is padded with a large staple and hand-trap package (Impermanence, Ash, Dominus Impulse, Droll, Solemn, Crow, Nibiru) and a fifteen-link Extra Deck spanning several unrelated archetypes. The score comes from the system: interaction density and a closing Link-3 board (D7, D9) against a thin, mostly single-copy Maliss Link base and no combo data (D1, D3, D4), not from averaging individual card strength or from Maliss being a recognised archetype. Popularity was not credited: usage statistics confirm the list is a real, accessible build but do not raise power. The legality failure (three cards over their OCG copy limits) caps the final score at 30 even though the structural read is around 50, so this is a theoretical/structural-only evaluation. Consistency and Going-Second estimates are hypergeometric and Inferred, and no win-rate, matchup or meta data exists to move Meta Power off provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: illegal_copy_limit_cap (-18). Final formula: Illegal list: structural-only read of 0.80*Structural(50) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(38) = 47.6, capped at 30 for copy-limit violations (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction: 11 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards and 27 removal-text cards
• Strong closing Extra Deck with several 2300-3000 ATK Link-3 to Link-5 bosses
• Broad link-material coverage across the 15-card Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: three cards exceed their copy limits
• Thin Maliss Link base: only two Maliss Links with a Maliss identity; the rest of the Extra Deck is off-archetype
• Zero Side Deck cards, so no post-side adaptability
• Large non-engine staple package dilutes starter density

Critical choke points

• Starter access rests on about 25% per 3-copy Maliss starter in the opening 5 cards
• Going-first turn depends on resolving a Maliss Link before the opponent's first interaction

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts are within size rules; Three copy-limit violations: Allure of Darkness, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Dominus Impulse; Banlist status for all Limited and Semi-Limited cards in the deck; Extra-Deck composition: 15 distinct Link monsters; Archetype purity 22.5% exact-name, 16 Maliss copies
• Observed: Usage stats show the list runs the core Maliss shell (Dormouse, TB-11, MTP-07, Gold Sarcophagus, Backup @Ignister, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Chessy Cat, Impermanence, Maliss in Underground)
• Inferred: Starter access 0.2487 per 3-copy Maliss starter in hand 5 (hypergeometric); Hand-trap access 0.7491 going second (hypergeometric); Interaction density (negation, removal, hand-trap text) supports a high end-board interaction read; Structural score 50 under the Midrange profile; going-first 45, going-second 55
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Format fit and matchup coverage (no tournament data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No guides for the archetype; strategic intent is inferred from text only No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or OTK rates Usage statistics mark Extra-Deck cards (Hearts Crypter, S:P Little Knight, Accesscode Talker, Allied Code Talker, Wicckid, Almiraj, Lizardose, Firewall Dragon, Linguriboh, Masquerena) as in_this_deck=false, but the card list shows them in the Extra Deck with 1 copy each; the core_present_pct of 60% is therefore likely an evidence artifact (main-deck-only match) and was not used as evidence Deck title is null; the name is taken from the archetype only Meta Power is Provisional (no dated sample)