@Ignister Deck #786130 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 43/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 15 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-summon into Maliss and @Ignister Link monsters, then keep the board with negations and card removal until a large Link monster can attack; Bystial Druiswurm and Bystial Magnamhut as 2500-ATK beatsticks, reached through banishing Dark monsters from either graveyard
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Backup @Ignister or a Maliss March Hare to search a Cyberse, Normal Summon a Cyberse, and go to the Extra Deck for a Link-2 or Link-3 Maliss or @Ignister Link
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Infinite Impermanence to stop the opponent's first Special Summon or searcher, then use Maliss Chessy Cat and March Hare to rebuild a Link board
• Recovery: Maliss monsters banished from the graveyard are reused by Maliss in the Mirror and Maliss TB-11, which recycles the deck; Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws when the hand is small
• After siding: Mistaken Arrest, Cosmic Cyclone and Dimensional Fissure are sided in as a Spell/Trap answer package; the side is a generic toolbox with no recorded post-side data

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system. Its Maliss and @Ignister searchers and Summon engines give a reasonable chance of a live starter by turn 2, but only 5 of the 40 main-deck slots are exact @Ignister cards and roughly half the list is off-archetype, which weakens the engine. Its interaction package (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Lock Bird, Dominus Impulse) is the strongest part of the list, and it gives the deck real end-board durability. Closing relies on a few Link-3 and Link-4 attackers and two 2500-ATK Bystial monsters, with no recorded boards to show how often the deck actually reaches them. The score is capped low because the deck runs three copies each of Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse, both of which are limited to two in TCG, so it is structural-only. Popularity of the archetype did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Illegal copy limit (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional), then illegal-list cap via modifier

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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 searcher and Summon-enabler package that gives a reasonable chance of a live starter
• Layered interaction with 10 hand traps, negation text and removal text, which holds the end board
• Maliss graveyard recursion gives a usable grind after the first exchange

Weaknesses

• Two over-limit Semi-Limited cards make the list illegal in TCG
• Only about 9% of main-deck copies are exact @Ignister names, so the engine is thinly connected
• Extra Deck carries Link monsters that the archetype core does not use
• No recorded boards, so the deck's real output is unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Maliss Link monsters must be on the field to enable most of the engine; losing them to removal stalls the plan
• Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are needed for interaction but are over the copy limit

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies, legal limit 2; Main 40, Extra 15, Side 15, within the TCG size rules; Limited cards Bystial Druiswurm, Bystial Magnamhut, Droll and Lock Bird, Gold Sarcophagus, Terraforming and S:P Little Knight each run 1 copy, within the limit
• Inferred: Starter access and brick rate estimated from hypergeometric draws and card text; Interaction density read from card text; Going-first and going-second splits estimated from card roles, not recorded games
• Provisional: Median output and matchup fit, pending recorded boards and a dated meta sample; Side deck adaptability, pending post-side data
• Data gaps: No recorded boards, so the combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups or brick rates Meta power is provisional without a dated metagame sample