Knightmare Deck #767574 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Raidraptor Xyz pressure: Rising Rebellion Falcon (4000 ATK), Ultimate Falcon (3500 ATK) and Satellite Cannon Falcon, reached through Raidraptor Normal/Special Summon chains that search and recycle Xyz materials.; Board-control finish through Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Raidraptor - Glorious Bright and Raidraptor - Satellite Cannon Falcon's Spell/Trap wipe, supported by hand-trap negation.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Raidraptor starter (Fuzzy Lanius, Bloom Vulture, Tribute Lanius or Raider's Wing), search a second Raidraptor, and Xyz into Brave Strix or Force Strix; hold Ash Blossom or Droll & Lock Bird as protection.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment/Warning) to break the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Raidraptor searchers and Mulcharmy draw.
• Recovery: Recover from the Graveyard: Raidraptor - Heel Eagle and Noir Lanius banish from GY to add or recycle Raidraptor cards, and Raidraptor - Roost and Rank-Up-Magic Skip Force reuse Xyz materials.
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck has no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan and no sideboard adaptation.

Why it scores here

This is an Illegal list: it runs 3 copies each of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse against a Semi-Limited cap of 2, so it receives a theoretical, structural-only score capped at 30 rather than a normal final score. The structural read (about 55) comes from the system: the 13-copy Raidraptor core gives about a 76% chance of at least one core card in the opening hand of 5, the searcher density (15 cards, about 81% at least one in hand) keeps the engine accessible, and the deck runs a dense interaction suite (Ash, Droll, Solemn Judgment and Warning, Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Dominus Impulse). The Extra Deck closers (Rising Rebellion Falcon, Ultimate Falcon, Satellite Cannon Falcon) give real ceiling. The score does not come from Raidraptor being a popular archetype, and it is not an average of card scores. There are no recorded boards, no side deck, and the 'Knightmare' archetype label does not match the list (35 Raidraptor, 6 Dominus, 6 Mulcharmy, 3 Solemn, 70 off-archetype copies), so the evaluation is Low confidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.8 Midrange + 0.2 Toolbox. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-6); No side deck (-6). Final formula: Illegal cap: normal formula 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) + ContextModifiers(-12) = 42, capped at 30 for copy-limit violations (theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power provisional/null.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.76 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.24 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Raidraptor engine has 15 searcher-text cards and 13 core copies, so the opening hand is usually live (about 76% for one core card in hand of 5)
• Dense interaction suite (Ash, Droll, Solemn Judgment and Warning, Lightning Storm, Harpie's Duster, Glorious Bright) gives layered answers for both going first and going second
• Extra Deck closers have high ATK (4000 / 3500 / 3000) and multiple Xyz routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy limit on two Semi-Limited cards caps the score; the list cannot be played in a sanctioned OCG event as built
• Off-archetype spread (70 copies outside the Raidraptor family) reduces engine coherence
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• Archetype label 'Knightmare' does not match the list's engine, which weakens archetype-based comparison

Critical choke points

• The Raidraptor starter-to-Xyz chain has few redundant entries once the hand traps are used
• Two Semi-Limited hand traps are over the copy limit, so the list must cut one copy each before it is legal

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited OCG cap of 2; Limited cards run at 1 copy each (Droll, Foolish Burial, Harpie's Duster, Solemn Judgment); Core usage stats: Droll 71%, Nibiru 71%, Ash 57%, Mulcharmy Purulia 57%, Dominus Impulse 57%
• Inferred: Engine live probability 0.76 for one core card in hand of 5 (hypergeometric); Interaction density and going-second value read from card text; Midrange weight profile applied to the dimension scores
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit, pending a dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Deck title is null and the archetype label does not match the card list No side deck supplied