Despia Deck #774055 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion-summon Albaz-line bosses (Fallen of Albaz-based Fusion Monsters such as The Dragon that Devours the Dogma and Mirrorjade) and convert the board with 3000-ATK pressure; Branded Fusion and Branded in High Spirits into a Level 8 Fusion boss, with Synchro closers from Ecclesia/Swordsoul when resources allow
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Fallen of the White Dragon, Blazing Cartesia, Incredible Ecclesia or Guiding Quem) and use search effects (Aluber, Branded Opening, Dogmatika Ecclesia) to reach a Fusion Summon of an Albaz-line boss on turn 1-2, protected by Ash Blossom and Typhoon-style interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Nibiru, Droll & Lock Bird) answer the opponent's first summon or search, then Fusion Summon through the remaining board
• Recovery: Recursion through Fallen of Albaz and Branded Retribution (GY-based Fusion Materials), Fallen of the White Dragon and Dogmatika Ecclesia from the GY, with Pot of Sloth for card flow
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This deck is scored as a theoretical, structural-only read because the list is illegal in TCG: three copies each of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, The Fallen & The Virtuous and Super Polymerization exceed their Semi-Limited limit of two, so the final score is capped at 40. The engine is the Fallen of Albaz line, with Branded search and Fusion access into 3000-ATK bosses, and the 10 hand traps and 17 removal-text cards give it a credible interaction layer (D7 70). Its floor is weaker: there are no recorded boards, so the median output (D4 45) and the ceiling (D3 65) are text-only inferences. The deck spans five related sub-archetypes (Branded, Albaz Dragon, Despia, Dogmatika, Ecclesia) with only about 7% exact-name purity, which costs consistency and pilotability, and it has no side deck, which caps adaptability at 10. No popularity or meta-share earned any points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary (Combo secondary, informational only). Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-10); Engine conflicts and no side deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal deck: theoretical only. 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 52.2, Meta provisional; modifiers -12 = 40, capped at 40 for illegal status

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · 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: 10 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards and 17 removal-text cards
• Strong Fusion boss access: 13 Fusion Extra Deck slots with multiple 2500-3000 ATK bosses
• Searcher density: 15 searcher-text cards give a high chance of a functional opening hand

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: three copies of Semi-Limited cards
• No side deck: zero post-side adaptability
• Low exact-name purity (7%) across five related sub-archetypes, which hurts engine coherence
• No recorded combos, so the median and floor cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz and the Branded Fusion / Branded in High Spirits chain are the single route to the main bosses
• Three Semi-Limited cards cannot all be run, so the legal build loses one copy of each

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal: three cards over their Semi-Limited copy limit (Ash Blossom, The Fallen & The Virtuous, Super Polymerization); Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0; Main and Extra sizes are legal; Five Limited cards are run at one copy each (legal); Archetype purity 7% exact-name; 66 off-archetype copies
• Observed: Usage stats: 14 of 25 core cards present (56%), missing Mirrorjade and Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon
• Inferred: Hypergeometric consistency: P(searcher in hand5) ≈ 0.80, archetype-core ≈ 0.95; Ceiling and median output from card text only; Interaction density from text and role tags
• Provisional: Meta Power null and D13 matchup/format fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link
• 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/second and matchup rates unknown Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck has no side deck, so post-side performance is unmeasurable Deck is illegal as built; scores are theoretical only