Knightmare Deck #767654 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Maliss and Bystial Link/Xyz boards (Maliss Red Ransom, Maliss White Binder, Maliss Hearts Crypter, Ryzeal Detonator) to pressure through the opponent's interaction; Knightmare Phoenix / Knightmare Gryphon / A Bao A Qu board pressure, with the illegal Knightmare Gryphon not usable in a legal build
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Maliss or Bystial starters and hand-trap backup, then Link Summon into a 2500-2300 ATK Link Monster; interruption depends on the 18 hand traps being live
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 6 cards with a high chance of at least one hand trap (about 0.92 by the evidence), use it to break the opponent's first Summon, then go to the board through the Link route
• Recovery: Recover through Maliss Chessy Cat and Maliss White Rabbit card draw and Bystial Baldrake/Magnamhut re-summons from the banish zone; recovery depends on the illegal copies being cut
• After siding: No side deck was supplied (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in OCG as built: five Forbidden cards are present (Called by the Grave, Dimension Shifter x3, Knightmare Gryphon, Link Decoder, Splash Mage) and eleven distinct cards exceed their copy limits, so the score is theoretical and capped at 25. Within that cap, the system reads as a midrange Maliss/Bystial Link deck with a large hand-trap suite. The 12-copy archetype core gives a 0.72 chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), so the engine is reasonably reachable, but the list is spread across Maliss, Bystial, Artifact, Dominus, Knightmare and generic cards with only 2.9% exact-name archetype purity, which weakens engine cohesion. No combo boards, guides, tournament results or side deck were supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are not measurable and are not averaged from card scores. Popularity and archetype usage stats only confirm the list is real and accessible, and they contributed no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.85 Midrange / 0.15 Stun (Inferred from hand-trap-heavy composition). Structural ≈ 43, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional), then the Illegal cap sets the theoretical score to 25 (raw ≈ 41.7 before modifiers)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.72 · 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

• Large hand-trap suite gives high going-second interaction density
• Broad Link Extra Deck coverage with several 2300-2500 ATK bosses
• 12-copy archetype core is reachable (about 0.72 for at least one in opening 5)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Forbidden and over-limit cards
• Very low exact-name archetype purity (2.9%) across sub-archetypes
• 18 hand traps and 23 tech cards create dead-card risk
• No side deck, so no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Dependence on the 3-copy Maliss and Bystial starters, all of which are over the legal limit in this build
• Going-first plan depends on hand traps not being dead in the opening hand
• Recovery relies on banish-zone re-summons that cannot be verified without combo data

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size rules (40-60 / 0-15); Five Forbidden cards are present and eleven distinct cards exceed legal copies; Archetype purity is 2.9% exact-name; 14 Link and 1 Xyz in Extra Deck; No side deck supplied
• Inferred: Core-group P(open ≥1 in 5) ≈ 0.72; P(≥1 hand trap in 6 going second) ≈ 0.92; Brick and dead-hand-trap risk is high; Engine recovery through banish-zone re-summons
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated meta sample exists; D13 matchup fit is provisional
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup, or brick/starter rates No side deck supplied Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied