Knightmare Deck #754101 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-climb into large Link Monsters (Evil★Twin's Trouble Sunny, Underworld Goddess, A Bao A Qu) and Fiendsmith Lacrima pressure, if the list were legal; Live☆Twin / Evil★Twin chain pressure with Lil-la and Ki-sikil recursion
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Live☆Twin starter, chain Ki-sikil and Lil-la special summons into Evil★Twin link summons, and hold Ash Blossom or Droll for the first interruption (theoretical; deck is illegal as built)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to hold hand traps (11 in deck, about 88% chance of at least one) and rebuild through the Live☆Twin recursion chain
• Recovery: Recover from the GY through Lil-la and Ki-sikil Special Summon effects and Unchained Soul Lord of Yama
• After siding: Not evaluable: the side deck is empty (0 of 15 cards) in the export

Why it scores here

The structural read is a midrange system: the Live☆Twin and Ki-sikil/Lil-la chain gives a reasonable opening engine, and 11 hand traps plus Ash Blossom and Droll give interaction density on both turns. The 40-card main is compact (24 distinct cards, 14 singletons) and the 15-card Extra Deck is fully used, which supports the efficiency scores. The deck cannot earn a normal final score because three Forbidden cards are run (Triple Tactics Talent, Knightmare Gryphon, D/D/D Wave High King Caesar), so the final score is capped low and the evaluation is theoretical only. No combo boards were recorded, so the ceiling and median scores come from text reading and are low-confidence, and popularity and archetype usage were not counted toward the score. Card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (disclosed; weights not re-blended). Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); empty side deck (0). Final formula: Illegal list: uncapped 0.80*50 + 0.20*40 = 48, minus 12 banlist exposure = 36, capped at 20 because the list is illegal (theoretical only)

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

• Compact main deck with 14 singletons and a fully used Extra Deck
• Dense interaction: 11 hand traps and multiple negate and removal effects
• Recursion from the GY through Lil-la and Ki-sikil

Weaknesses

• Three Forbidden cards make the list illegal as built
• Empty side deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• The Live☆Twin starter (3 copies each, about 0.34 per opening hand) gates the whole engine
• Forbidden cards are a hard block, not a choke point that a sideboard can fix

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Three Forbidden cards are run with 0 legal copies (legality block); Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 counts (composition); Ash Blossom is Semi-Limited at 2 copies, all other Limited cards at 1 copy (restricted_cards)
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.34 per opening hand (hypergeometric); Hand-trap coverage about 0.88 on the going-second 6-card hand; Interaction and recursion reads from card text
• Provisional: Meta power (null; no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No recorded combos; combo ceiling and median are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry for this deck Side deck is empty, so post-side is not evaluable Meta power is provisional without a dated metagame sample