Maliss Deck #774453 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• 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 and Ars Magna Link monsters (Hearts Crypter, Red Ransom, Mediclius, Accesscode Talker) to swing boards through banish and negate effects and high-ATK Link bodies.; Hand-trap and negation control: Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Ogre, Skull Meister and Droll & Lock Bird stop the opponent's engine so the Link board can take over.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Maliss or Ars Magna starter (March Hare, Chessy Cat, Ars Magna searchers), search a second Maliss piece, and reach a Link Summon. The opening-hand starter probability is high, but no going-first board data exists.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash, Impermanence, Ghost Ogre, Skull Meister, Droll) to answer the opponent's first summon or set, then rebuild the Link board from the GY and banish zone.
• Recovery: Maliss in Underground, Maliss MTP-07 and Terraforming refill the hand, and Mulcharmy draws reload after a board is wiped. Recovery depends on Maliss cards staying in the GY or banish zone.
• After siding: None. The deck has zero Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its card scores. Its core Maliss and Ars Magna starters are present at high probability (archetype-core group P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.99, Inferred), so the engine is usually reachable on turn 1 or 2. Conversion is plausible through Link Summons into Maliss Link monsters, but there are no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only estimates and are scored conservatively. Interaction is the strongest part: 15 hand-trap-tagged copies and a P(at least one hand trap in 6 cards) ≈ 0.87 on the going-second side. Consistency is held back by 15 off-archetype cards across sub-archetypes (Ignister, Mulcharmy, Ars Magna, Bystial, Dominus), two Mulcharmy engines that only work with an empty field, and no Side Deck. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points. The deck is illegal (Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies against a limit of 2), so the Final score is capped low and the evaluation is theoretical and structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Toolbox secondary (disclosed as a hybrid; Combo weights used). Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Banlist exposure (-2); Illegal copy-limit cap (-16). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) = 50; contextual modifiers -4 gives 46; Illegal-deck cap applied gives 30. Meta Power provisional (null). Theoretical/structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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

• Reliable engine access: the Maliss and Ars Magna starter group is nearly always in hand (Inferred).
• Dense negation layer: 15 hand traps and several negate effects, strongest going second.
• Link-based closing power with 2300 to 3000 ATK Link monsters and Maliss banish-based recursion.

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are each run at 3 copies, above the Semi-Limited limit of 2.
• Low coherence: purity is 21.4% and 15 off-archetype cards come from Ignister, Mulcharmy, Ars Magna, Bystial and Dominus.
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptation.
• Mulcharmy engines need an empty field, which conflicts with the Link board plan.

Critical choke points

• Maliss Link monsters on the field are required for most lines. Losing them to a single removal or negation breaks the chain, and recovery depends on Maliss cards in the GY or banish zone (Inferred).
• The illegal copy count means the list cannot be played in a sanctioned event as built.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: illegal copy limit for Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (3 vs 2) and Dominus Impulse (3 vs 2).; Composition: 55 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; 14 Link and 1 Xyz in the Extra Deck; purity 21.4%.; Usage: core cards Maliss Dormouse, Gold Sarcophagus and others at 100% inclusion (usage stats available).
• Inferred: Engine access: archetype-core group P(≥1 in 5-card hand) ≈ 0.99.; Hand-trap availability going second: P(≥1 in 6-card hand) ≈ 0.87.; Consistency and brick risk from copy histogram and conflicting card roles.; Interaction density from card text (negate, banish, destroy).; Link-chain conversion reads from card text (no recorded boards).
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no tournament link and no dated metagame sample.
• 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 unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. No Side Deck: post-side plan cannot be evaluated. Deck title is null; the evaluation uses the archetype name Maliss.