@Ignister Deck #774455 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• 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 Link monsters from the Extra Deck (Maliss, Ignister, Ars Magna, Code Talker lines) to reach large boards and attack pressure; the exact conversion path is not evidenced by recorded boards; Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord and the 2500-ATK Bystial Limited beatsticks as end-board closers
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a 2-card starter (Maliss March Hare, Backup @Ignister, Mulcharmy) into a Link Summon, protecting the first line with Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence; this line is not confirmed by any recorded board
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird and Skull Meister to answer the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through Maliss searchers
• Recovery: Maliss cards recycle from the GY and banish zones via Maliss in Underground and Maliss in the Mirror; Mulcharmy draw effects refill a hand that has been emptied
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal as built (Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2), so the score is a structural-only ceiling and not a normal contextual score. Its strengths are a dense interaction layer (15 hand-trap cards, 16 negation-text cards, 27 removal-text cards) that is likely to answer a first summon and a Link-based engine that can reach a large end board. Its weaknesses are the spread across roughly four related sub-archetypes (only 5 of 65 archetype-tagged copies are exact @Ignister), no recorded boards to confirm any combo line, and no side deck to adapt after game one. Popularity was not used as a scoring input, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score. Structural power is 51, and the Final Contextual value is capped to 30 because of the copy-limit violations.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Copy-limit violations (-10); No combo or tournament evidence (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers = 0.80*51 + 0.20*45 - 12 = 37.8; Illegal-deck cap applied, final = 30 (theoretical, structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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: 15 hand traps, 16 negation-text cards and 27 removal-text cards
• Link-based Extra Deck engine with 14 Link monsters and high-ATK closers
• Maliss search and recursion give some resource recovery

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: two cards exceed their Semi-Limited copy limit
• Low exact-archetype purity (7.1%); the engine is spread across four related archetypes
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• No combo or tournament data to confirm conversion or median output
• Several off-plan cards (Mulcharmy and similar) are dead in many hands

Critical choke points

• The first Link Summon depends on a small number of starters, so an early hand trap or board wipe can stall the whole line
• Maliss recursion needs Maliss cards in the GY or banish zone, which a clean first turn may not provide

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3/2 and Dominus Impulse 3/2 are over copy limit; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within the TCG size rules; Side 0 is within range; Restricted cards are run within their limits, except the two violations above; Card text for the main engines and hand traps was read from the evidence excerpts
• Inferred: Starter probabilities (hypergeometric, 3-copy cards about 25% in a 5-card hand); Interaction density from text-role counts; Going-second hand-trap probability (0.87); Engine coherence across sub-archetypes
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and format fit (D13); Median and floor output (no recorded boards)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot records are absent No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN; going-first and going-second rates are inferred No side deck, so best-of-3 adaptation is unmeasured Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample