Igknight Deck #600752 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Tempo
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: No reliable win condition: the list mixes Igknight Pendulum, Noble Knight, Destiny HERO, Elemental HERO, Flame Swordsman and Yang Zing lines with no single closing route; the Extra Deck closers that would have carried it (Borreload, Auroradon, Isolde, Baronne) are Forbidden in this format.; Flame Swordsman / Dark Flare Swordsman beatdown and Igknight Pendulum-driven recursion, both unverified as a coherent line.
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Renaud, Vyon, Faris and Igknight Pendulum searchers toward a Synchro or Fusion extender, as far as the text allows. No recorded boards exist to confirm this line.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Red Reboot as hand traps (4 hand traps total) and rebuild through the searchers. Unverified.
• Recovery: Recover from the GY through Destiny HERO - Denier, Flame Swordsman and Ignis Phoenix searches. Inferred from card text only.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This list is scored as an illegal, structural-only read. It runs 60 Main and 15 Extra cards, so its size is legal, but it breaks copy limits on Ash Blossom (3 copies vs 2 allowed) and includes six Forbidden or over-limit cards in the OCG list, including Called by the Grave, Borreload, Auroradon, Isolde and Baronne. Its searcher density (20 searcher-text cards, about 88% chance of at least one in an opening 5 by the hypergeometric estimate) suggests it can reliably open a hand with something to do. The engine is split across five or more archetypes (Igknight 4 copies, Noble Knight 7, Destiny HERO 6, Flame Swordsman 6, Elemental HERO 8), so the deck has no coherent closing line. Four hand traps and a 33-singleton main give some interaction and breadth. No recorded boards, tournament data, matchup data or side deck are supplied, so combo output, going-second performance and matchup fit are not measured. The score was not built by averaging individual card power and popularity was not credited. The Illegal status caps it at 20.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 38.7, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 36, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); Engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*38.7 + 0.20*35 + modifiers(-11) = about 27. Illegal status applies the cap, so final = 20 (theoretical/structural-only). Meta provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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 text (20 cards) gives frequent access to something to do
• Four hand traps including Ash Blossom and Red Reboot give going-second interaction
• Legal Main and Extra counts
• Wide 45-distinct Main Deck with 33 singletons

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy and banlist violations on six cards
• No single closing engine; five or more archetypes share the deck
• Exact-name archetype purity is 5.3 percent
• No side deck
• Core Extra Deck closers are Forbidden

Critical choke points

• Igknight Pendulum pair requirement (needs two Igknight Pendulum monsters in the Pendulum Zones)
• Forbidden Extra Deck closers removed from the format
• Ash Blossom over its limit

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0 counts vs OCG size rules; Six copy-limit or Forbidden violations listed in legality; Archetype purity 5.3 percent exact-name; Extra Deck breakdown 7 Synchro, 5 Link, 2 Fusion, 1 XYZ
• Inferred: Searcher density and opening-hand access estimate (about 0.88 for searcher in 5); Brick and consistency estimates from copy histogram; Hand-trap and interaction read from card text; Going-first and going-second plan read from card text
• Provisional: Meta power (null: no dated metagame sample); Format fit and matchup coverage
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot records absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Usage-statistics core cards are not in this deck, so the stats describe a different archetype build and do not confirm this list Side deck empty, so no post-side evaluation Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample