Malefic Deck #773328 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 11 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Malefic Paradigm Dragon, Malefic Stardust Dragon and Malefic Cyber End Dragon ending on a 4000+ ATK board after Malefic World and Malefic Paradox Gear build the engine; Malefic Truth Dragon (1 copy) as a late-game 5000 ATK closer recurred from the Graveyard
• Turn 1 (going first): Activate Malefic Paradigm Shift or Malefic Paradox Gear to put Malefic World into the Field Zone, then Special Summon a Malefic Dragon and build a Synchro or Fusion board through Malefic Parallel Gear
• Turn 2 (going second): Dark Hole and Cosmic Cyclone clear or remove the opponent's board, then Malefic Selector and Malefic Territory rebuild the Field and Extra Deck summons. Dimension Shifter would normally be the hand trap here, but it is illegal in this list
• Recovery: Malefic Selector recovers two Malefic cards from the Deck using banished Graveyard cards, and Malefic World draws a 'pick 1 of 3' card each Draw Phase
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan. Removing the illegal Dimension Shifter copies is the required first change

Why it scores here

This deck is scored on the system, not on an average of its card scores. Its engine is Malefic World, Malefic Paradigm Shift, Malefic Parallel Gear and Malefic Paradox Gear, which reach a Malefic Dragon in the Extra Deck with roughly a 27 percent chance per 3-copy card in the opening 5 and about 75 percent for at least one searcher-text card. The structure gives reasonable access, and the Synchro and Fusion extra deck gives strong closing power at 4000 ATK and above. Interaction is decent (Dark Hole, Cosmic Cyclone, Malefic Force and the Stardust negation effect), but there are no recorded boards, so the combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. Popularity was not credited: the archetype is core-matched (72 percent of archetype core cards present) and that confirms the list is real, not strong. The deck is Illegal because 3 copies of the Forbidden Dimension Shifter are run, so the score is capped and labelled structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 49.6, then -10 banlist modifier = 39.6, then capped to 25 because the deck is Illegal (no normal final score; structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.27 · 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

• Compact 3-copy engine core (Malefic World, Paradigm Shift, Paradox Gear, Parallel Gear) gives consistent access to Malefic Dragons
• Synchro and Fusion extra deck reaches 4000+ ATK closers with piercing text on Cyber End Dragon
• Multiple removal and negation sources (Dark Hole, Cosmic Cyclone, Malefic Force, Stardust negation)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 3 copies of the Forbidden Dimension Shifter
• No side deck, so there is no adaptability against the opponent's board
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median are unknown
• Dimension Shifter slots are dead cards in a legal list, which weakens hand-trap coverage on the going-second turn

Critical choke points

• Malefic World must be in the Field Zone for most lines; removing it stops the Malefic Dragon Special Summons
• The Malefic Paradox Dragon Synchro line needs Malefic Parallel Gear plus one non-Tuner Malefic monster in hand

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 3x Dimension Shifter, Forbidden in OCG, 0 legal copies (Illegal); Main 52 (within 40-60), Extra 11 (within 0-15), Side 0; Card text and stats for all 19 main and 7 extra distinct cards; Archetype usage: Malefic core cards present at 100 percent inclusion
• Inferred: Going-first starter access about 0.27 per 3-copy card; searcher group about 0.75; Engine access and brick risk (D1, D2); Interaction density and going-second board breaking (D7, D8)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13) and side-deck adaptability (D12)
• 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 side deck registered: post-side plan cannot be evaluated no win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied