Bystial/Byssted Deck #774448 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, 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 boss monsters (Link-5 and Link-3 Maliss/Ignister/Code Talker bodies, Bystial 2500 ATK beatsticks) after a hand-trap-protected starter opens the board; Recursion-driven grind through Maliss banish/recursion and Mulcharmy draw effects over a long game
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Maliss or @Ignister starter (March Hare, Backup, Chessy Cat) with Droll and Ash Blossom protecting the first Link Summon, then build toward a Link-3 or Link-5 boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru) to answer the opponent's first summon, then convert through Bystial or Maliss Link bodies
• Recovery: Banish and recur Maliss cards from GY (Maliss in Underground, Maliss in the Mirror, Maliss MTP-07) and reuse Ignister Tuner/Link recursion to rebuild the board
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated; the deck has zero sideboard flexibility

Why it scores here

The deck's structural power is read from its system as a whole, not from averaging card scores: the Maliss and Ignister starters give a 63% chance (Inferred, hypergeometric) of opening at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card hand, and the 11 hand traps and 15 negation-text cards give it a strong interaction layer. Its Extra Deck of 14 Link monsters and a Fusion gives good coverage of boss and recursion routes. Conversion and median output could not be measured because no combos were supplied, so those scores rest on text-level inference and carry low confidence. The deck runs 57 main-deck cards with 22 singletons and several off-theme staples such as Pot of Sloth, Hey, Space Trunade! and Terraforming, which lowers main-deck efficiency. Popularity and archetype usage stats confirm that the list is real, but they earned no points. The deck is Illegal: three cards exceed their copy limits, so it is capped at 35 and the score is theoretical and structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange profile used; Stun traits (hand traps) are reflected in D7 and D8 scores. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Copy-limit violations (Illegal) (-8); No side deck (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap: min(0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers, 35) = min(0.80*56 + 0.20*45 - 12, 35) = 35 (Meta provisional, theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.63 · 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

• Layered hand-trap and negation suite (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Infinite Impermanence, Solemn trio, Nibiru)
• Broad Link Extra Deck with Link-3 to Link-5 bosses and recursion-based re-summons
• Multiple Maliss and Ignister starters give several independent openings

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: three cards exceed copy limits
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Many off-archetype staples (Pot of Sloth, Hey, Space Trunade!, Terraforming, Gold Sarcophagus) dilute consistency

Critical choke points

• Maliss starter access depends on a single Link-monster loop; losing the first Link Summon to a hand trap has no recovery beyond the GY recursion lines
• Hand-trap density on the going-second turn is the only defence against an opponent's first summon

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Allure of Darkness, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse exceed legal copy limits; Main 57 and Extra 15 are within TCG size rules; Side is 0; Hand-trap, negation and searcher counts from curated text flags
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter, hand-trap and brick estimates (0.63 core, 0.74 hand trap); Interaction density and resilience read from card text; Going-first and going-second split from text, not from recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup 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 record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups, brick or OTK rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck is present, so post-side plan cannot be evaluated