Maliss Deck #773189 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Maliss Link Monsters (Red Ransom, White Binder, Hearts Crypter) and attack or banish through the opponent's board, with Maliss Traps and Chessy Cat/Dormouse for recursion.; Bystial Druiswurm/Baldrake/Magnamhut 2500-ATK beaters in the Main Deck, plus Firewall Dragon in the Extra Deck.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Maliss monsters and Dormouse/Chessy Cat, banish a Maliss to Special Summon, then Link Summon a Maliss Link with the Extra Deck boss; hold hand traps for the opponent's first Special Summon when possible.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence and Artifact Lancea to interrupt the opponent's first engine, then rebuild with Maliss monsters and Traps.
• Recovery: Recover through Maliss Chessy Cat and Dormouse draws, Maliss in Underground banish costs, and Allure of Darkness refilling the hand; Maliss Traps in GY are recyclable.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan. The list must lose the Forbidden cards and reduce copy counts before any post-side read is possible.

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in OCG: five Forbidden cards and seven over-limit copies, so it receives a structural-only cap rather than a normal Final score. Its core Maliss engine is reasonably accessible (about 94% of opening hands contain at least one archetype-core card, Inferred), and its 18 hand traps and 33 removal-text cards give real interaction density, especially going second. However, only 17 of 55 Main Deck cards are exact-name Maliss (24.3% purity), with 7 Bystial, 3 Dominus, 3 Artifact and other sub-archetypes diluting the engine. No combos were supplied, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences and are weak. The score is derived from the system (consistency, interaction, going-second strength, and the legality cap), not from averaging card scores or from the deck's archetype popularity, which was not supplied.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-12); Copy-limit breaches (0); Off-archetype dilution (0); No side deck (0). Final formula: Illegal: structural-only. Uncapped = 0.80*47 + 0.20*35 - 12 (banlist exposure) = 33; capped to 25 for Illegal status. Meta provisional (null).

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

• Core Maliss engine is reliably present in opening hands (about 94% with at least one core card)
• Dense interaction: 18 hand traps and 33 removal-text cards
• Strong going-second hand-trap coverage (about 92% with at least one hand trap in hand 6)
• Recursion through Chessy Cat, Dormouse and Maliss Traps in the GY

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: 5 Forbidden cards and 7 over-limit copies
• Low archetype purity (24%) with several sub-archetypes (Bystial, Dominus, Artifact, Knightmare, Ryzeal)
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No combo data, so the output ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Forbidden cards (Dimension Shifter x3, Splash Mage, Link Decoder, Knightmare Gryphon, Called by the Grave) must be removed before the list is playable
• Over-limit copies of Droll & Lock Bird, Allure of Darkness, Crossout Designator and Bystial Druiswurm

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: 5 Forbidden cards and 7 over-limit copies; Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 are within OCG size rules; Archetype purity 24.3% (17 exact-name Maliss of 70)
• Observed: No combo boards parsed (0 combos), so no measured output; Usage stats: archetype core present 12 of 25 core cards (48%)
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter reliability from hypergeometric estimates (0.25 for a 3-copy card; 0.94 for the core group); Interaction quality from text roles (33 removal, 16 negation, 18 hand traps); Going-second hand-trap coverage (0.92 for hand 6)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format-fit scores (D13); Side-deck adaptability (D12, no Side Deck)
• 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 win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) 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