Maliss Deck #774092 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 42/100 (±12 · Confidence: Low)

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

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, Hearts Crypter) and attack or banish with high-ATK links, supported by Maliss Trap recursion; Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord and Bystial/Ars Magna boss monsters, if the board is left open
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Maliss Level 3 monster (March Hare or Chessy Cat) from hand, banish another Maliss to enable its hand effect, and link out toward a Maliss Link (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 15 hand traps (Ash, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru, Ghost Ogre, Skull Meister, Droll, Dominus) to answer the opponent's first summon or set, then link into Red Ransom or Hearts Crypter (Inferred)
• Recovery: Re-summon Maliss monsters from GY or banishment through Maliss Traps (MTP-07, GWC-06) and Ars Magna recursion (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the export has no side deck (side_count 0), so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck's engine is the Maliss Link loop: a Level 3 Maliss monster in hand (March Hare or Chessy Cat, 6 copies, about a 45 percent chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand per the hypergeometric estimate) starts a line that reaches Maliss Link monsters, which sit in the Extra Deck and are always available. Interaction is dense, with 15 hand traps and about 16 negation-text cards, which earns credit for going-second board-breaking and end-board interaction. Offensive closing is strong on paper because the Extra Deck carries several 2300 to 3000 ATK links and Galaxy-Eyes. Consistency and median output are weak: there are no recorded boards, 55 main-deck slots spread across at least six archetypes dilute the Maliss engine, and six Mulcharmy bodies need an empty field to work. The deck is Illegal (Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are each over their Semi-Limited limit of 2), so the score is capped and labelled structural-only. It was built from dimension scores and the weighted profile, not by averaging card scores, and popularity did not add points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); engine_conflicts (-3); dead_extra_card (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Illegal cap applied, structural-only read

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.45 · 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

• 15 hand traps give strong going-second interaction
• Extra Deck holds several high-ATK Link finishers that need no main-deck draw
• Recursion routes (Maliss Traps, Ars Magna) let the deck rebuild after an interruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are each over their copy limit
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Six Mulcharmy bodies depend on an empty field and are low-impact otherwise
• Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord is a dead Extra slot without Photon monsters
• 55-card main deck spreads across at least six archetypes

Critical choke points

• Needs a Maliss Level 3 monster in hand to start the engine (about 0.45 in an opening 5)
• Single-copy Maliss Link monsters (Red Ransom, Hearts Crypter) are the only route to the top-end finishers in the Maliss engine

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; main and extra within the size rules; Ash Blossom x3 and Dominus Impulse x3 each exceed the Semi-Limited limit of 2; Six Limited cards run at their cap of 1; Maliss exact-name purity 15 of 70 (21.4 percent); Hypergeometric draw figures recomputed and confirmed (single copy 0.0909, three copies 0.2529)
• Inferred: Starter consistency from hypergeometric P(>=1) estimates; Hand-trap interaction density from card text; Going-second board-breaking from hand-trap coverage; Engine coherence reduced by off-archetype staples
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Tournament reliability and side-deck adaptability (no side deck and no 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 record absent No side deck (side_count 0); post-side adaptability cannot be measured usage_statistics flags eight core cards as missing (Haggard Lizardose, S:P Little Knight, Accesscode Talker, Allied Code Talker, Salamangreat Almiraj, Cyberse Wicckid, Red Ransom, Hearts Crypter), yet all eight appear in the Extra Deck list, so the in_this_deck match looks broken and was not used for scoring No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; Meta Power is Provisional