Knightmare Deck #763449 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fiend and Archfiend board presence converted through Extra Deck link and fusion monsters, with Knightmare Gryphon (forbidden, so not playable) as the intended link finisher; Ritual and Fusion boss monsters (Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos, Luce the Dusk's Dark) reached through Archfiend searchers
• Turn 1 (going first): Archfiend searchers and Archfiend Playtime-style special summons into a link or fusion boss, with hand traps held for the opponent's first interaction (Inferred; no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Ghost Ogre and Droll & Lock Bird as hand traps to disrupt the opponent's starter, then rebuild through the Archfiend searcher chain (Inferred)
• Recovery: Archfiend Heiress, Archfiend of Gilfer and Royal Archfiend recur or search Archfiend cards from the Deck after a board is cleared (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the side deck is empty (0 cards) so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: Archfiend searchers (14 searcher-text cards, P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) about 0.90) and a Fiend-heavy engine give it a plausible route to a board, and its 7 hand traps and 8 negation-text cards give it real interaction density that pushes the going-second and resilience reads up. Consistency is held back by an archetype core that is absent from about 42 percent of 5-card openings and by a 1.8 percent exact-name Knightmare purity, so the engine is spread across Archfiend, Fiendsmith, Mulcharmy and generic staples rather than one coherent line. The score is capped low because the list is illegal in OCG: three Forbidden cards (Aerial Eater, Knightmare Gryphon, D/D/D Wave High King Caesar) are run, and the empty side deck gives no post-side plan. No combo boards were recorded, so the ceiling and median reads are structural only, and popularity or usage stats were not counted as power; card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Toolbox secondary, disclosed; weights taken from the Midrange row. Structural ≈ 45, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); illegal cap (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(45) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 44, plus banlist-exposure modifier -12 = 32, then capped at 20 because the deck is Illegal (three Forbidden cards). Structural is 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

• Dense searcher and interaction text (14 searchers, 8 negations, 14 removal) gives a real engine and a real interaction layer
• Seven hand traps give going-second coverage that holds up across the 6-card hand
• Extra Deck has 15 cards covering link, fusion and Xyz routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: three Forbidden cards are run and must be removed before the list can be played
• Archetype purity is 1.8 percent, so the engine is spread across several sub-archetypes
• Empty side deck: no post-side plan in a best-of-3 format
• No recorded combo boards, so the ceiling and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Knightmare Gryphon is forbidden and was the intended link finisher, so the link route has no legal end
• The archetype core is absent from about 42 percent of 5-card openings

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 3 Forbidden cards run, deck is Illegal in OCG; Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0; main and extra sizes are within the OCG range; Copy histogram: 26 singletons, 4 doubles, 2 triples; Archfiend purity: 1.8 percent exact-name; spread across 12 archetype labels; Probability tables: P(at least one 3-copy card in a 5-card hand) = 0.3376
• Observed: No recorded boards or combos (total_combos = 0)
• Inferred: Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Consistency and brick estimates from hypergeometric draw odds and text roles; Interaction density from negation, removal and hand-trap text; Going-second hand-trap coverage (P at least one of 7 in a 6-card hand = 0.71)
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN for this deck Meta power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Side deck is empty, so no post-side evidence exists