Infernoble Knight Deck #760880 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Emperor Charles, Ultimate Flame Swordsman, Gearfried-class beaters) reached through Noble Knight and Flame Swordsman searches and Synchro/Link/Fusion summons; Equip-based value (Noble Arms, Flame Swordsman equip spells) and Mulcharmy card draw as a grind backup
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Infernoble Knight Renaud, Ogier or Dark Flare Swordsman), search with Heritage of the Chalice or Fighting Flame Sword, then summon a Synchro or Link boss from the Extra Deck
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird, Evenly Matched) to break the opponent's first summon, then rebuild a board through Dark Flare Swordsman and Extra Deck summons
• Recovery: Recur Noble Knight and Flame Swordsman monsters from the GY with Heritage of the Chalice, Fighting Flame Sword and Salamandra with Chain, and rebuild from searched starters
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs zero side-deck cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck's Noble Knight core is reliably reachable: the archetype core group has a hypergeometric P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.92, and 18 searcher-text cards give about 0.86, so the engine usually comes online by turn 2 (Inferred). Interaction is layered across roughly 14 negation-text cards and 10 hand traps, which supports a respectable going-second plan. Ceiling and floor cannot be measured because no recorded boards exist, so combo conversion is a text-only read and the median output is a low-confidence guess. The score is held down by three overlapping engines (Noble Knight, Flame Swordsman, Mulcharmy), 69 off-archetype copies with only 4.2 percent exact-name purity, zero side-deck cards, and an Illegal list that runs Forbidden cards and over-limit Semi-Limited and Limited cards. The score is built from the system's consistency, interaction and resilience, not from averaging card scores, and popularity did not earn any points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); engine_conflicts (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*55 + 0.20*38 - 12 = 39.6; Illegal cap applied, final score set to 30 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.08 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Reliable engine access through the Noble Knight core and 18 searchers
• Layered interaction: negation text, hand traps and floodgates
• Extra Deck flexibility across Link, Synchro and Fusion bosses

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: over-limit Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, plus Forbidden Called by the Grave and Triple Tactics Talent
• Three overlapping engines with 4.2 percent exact-name purity
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Infernoble Knight starters must connect to the Extra Deck boss line
• Hand traps depend on hitting the opponent's first summon

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal with four copy-limit violations; Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within OCG size rules; Archetype purity 4.2 percent exact name; Core group P(≥1 in hand5) ≈ 0.92 and searcher group P ≈ 0.86
• Inferred: Engine accessibility and brick rate from hypergeometric estimates; Interaction density from card text; Ceiling and floor from text only
• Provisional: Meta Power; Matchup and format fit; Tournament reliability
• 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 sideboard list present, so post-side analysis is not possible