Igknight Deck #636645 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 32/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Tool-box, Stun
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro/Link/Xyz boards from a HERO or Igknight starter chain, closed by Yang Zing and Dracoslayer Extra Deck monsters; Pendulum Igknight recursion and Fusion/Synchro attackers (Flame Swordsman, Borreload-style boards) if the banned pieces were legal
• Turn 1 (going first): Search and summon a HERO or Igknight starter, then use Mask Change or Noble Knight searchers to build a Synchro or Link board
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the Ash Blossom and Red Reboot interaction, then rebuild through Igknight Pendulum recursion and Extra Deck summons
• Recovery: Pendulum Igknight recursion (Veteran, Gallant, Crusader, Paladin) and HERO searchers to rebuild the hand after a broken line
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The list is illegal: five Forbidden OCG cards (Called by the Grave, Borreload Savage Dragon, Mecha Phantom Beast Auroradon, Isolde, Baronne de Fleur) are each run once, so under the structural-only rule it gets a theoretical score and not a normal contextual one. Its consistency is moderate: the searcher text is dense (23 searcher-tagged cards, P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.92), but the 47 distinct main-deck cards draw from roughly 20 sub-archetypes (exact-name Igknight purity 5.3%), so the engines conflict and a starter often does not connect to the others. Interaction is real but thin, with 3 hand traps and 8 negation-text cards, and two of the most relevant ones are the banned or Limited pieces. Going second is weaker because the side deck is empty and there is no post-side plan. Popularity and archetype usage stats were not used to raise the score, and the card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Balanced. Structural ≈ 46, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 38, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-10); Engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: Theoretical structural-only score: 0.80*Structural(46) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 43.8, then modifiers total -12 → 32 (Meta provisional, illegal list)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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 (23 cards) gives high odds of a starter in the opening hand
• Layered interaction with 3 hand traps and 8 negation-text cards
• Extra Deck covers Link, Synchro, Xyz and Fusion routes

Weaknesses

• Five Forbidden cards make the list illegal
• Off-archetype splash (5.3% exact-name purity) with conflicting engines
• Empty side deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded combos or win data to confirm the ceiling

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom and Red Reboot are the only Limited/Semi-Limited interaction, so losing them leaves the board open to disruption
• Hand-based searchers depend on a single starter line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 5 Forbidden cards over the copy limit, status Illegal; Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within size rules; Archetype exact-name purity 5.3%, 23 searcher-tagged cards
• Inferred: Consistency estimate P(≥1 searcher in 5) ≈ 0.92 from the hypergeometric table; Hand-trap and negation coverage read from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck: post-side plan cannot be evaluated