Maliss Deck #774447 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Blind-Second, Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Maliss Link monsters (Maliss Red Ransom 2300 ATK, Maliss Hearts Crypter 2500 ATK) and push damage through a Link board built from Maliss monsters and Link-heavy Extra Deck options; Large Link bodies in the Extra Deck (Firewall Dragon Darkfluid 3000 ATK, Accesscode Talker, Decode Talker Heatsoul, Cyberse Desavewurm) once the board is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Maliss

  March Hare or Maliss

  Chessy Cat to search or draw a Maliss card, then convert into a Link Summon. Starter access is thin: a 3-copy card is live in only about 24 percent of opening 5-card hands (Inferred)

• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit, Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched, Droll and Lock Bird, Nibiru) to stop the opponent's first turn, then rebuild the Maliss board. A hand trap is in a 6-card hand about 74 percent of the time (Inferred)
• Recovery: Mulcharmy draw effects, Maliss Trap set-and-activate loops from the Deck, and Backup @Ignister or Wizard @Ignister revival lines. None of these is tested against recorded boards
• After siding: None. The side deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan at all

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in TCG: three cards exceed their copy limits (Allure of Darkness at 3 versus 1, Ash Blossom at 3 versus 2, Dominus Impulse at 3 versus 2), so it does not receive a normal final score and is capped at 25 as a theoretical, structural-only read. Within that read, the deck reliably produces interaction: 11 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards and a going-second hand-trap density that gives it a plausible answer to an opponent's first turn. The engine is less reliable. Only 15 of 72 main and extra copies carry the exact Maliss name (20.8 percent), the rest are spread across Ignister, Mulcharmy, Bystial, Code Talker and Cyber, and a 3-copy starter is live in only about 24 percent of 5-card openings. The Extra Deck offers strong Link finishers (2300 to 3000 ATK), but there is no recorded board data to show that they convert. The score comes from the system: consistency, interaction and closing power on the list as built, not from Maliss being a known archetype and not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 46, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); engine conflicts (-4); unrecoverable_choke_point (-2). Final formula: No-meta formula: 0.80*Structural(46) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) + modifiers(-10) = 34; capped at 25 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · 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

• Dense interaction package: 11 hand traps and 15 negation-text cards
• Strong going-second hand-trap density (about 0.74 in a 6-card hand)
• Extra Deck offers high-ATK Link finishers (Firewall Dragon Darkfluid 3000, Hearts Crypter 2500, Red Ransom 2300, Accesscode Talker 2300)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three cards exceed their TCG copy limits
• Low engine purity: 20.8 percent exact-Maliss, with competing sub-archetypes
• Thin starter access: 3-copy starters live in about 24 percent of opening hands
• Empty side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combos, so conversion and floor are unknown

Critical choke points

• Maliss starter access on turn 1 (about 24 percent for a 3-copy card in 5 cards)
• Over-limit Allure of Darkness, Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse must be cut before the list can be played

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Allure of Darkness 3/1, Ash Blossom 3/2, Dominus Impulse 3/2; Main 57, Extra 15, Side 0, all within size rules; Exact-Maliss purity 15 of 72 copies (20.8 percent); Composition counts: 11 hand traps, 15 negation-text, 14 Link and 1 Fusion in Extra
• Inferred: 3-copy starter live in about 24 percent of 5-card openings (hypergeometric); Going-second hand-trap presence about 0.74 in a 6-card hand; Structural read of interaction density and Link finisher power from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (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 match record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Evidence conflict: usage statistics marks Haggard Lizardose, S:P Little Knight, Accesscode Talker, Cyberse Wicckid, Salamangreat Almiraj, Maliss Red Ransom and Maliss Hearts Crypter as in this deck false, but the cards list carries all seven in the Extra Deck. core-card presence (68) is probably understated; only Allied Code Talker is truly absent Deck title is null; deck identified by archetype only