Knightmare Deck #770229 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Fusion, Link, Xyz
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Lunalight fusion boards (Lunalight Liger Dancer, Lunalight Panther Dancer, Lunalight Sabre Dancer) that attack twice or gain ATK, supported by Lunalight searchers and Polymerization; Knightmare Link boards (Knightmare Phoenix, Knightmare Unicorn, Accesscode Talker) and Nibiru for a one-sided field swing
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Lunalight searchers (Gold Leo, Black Sheep, Yellow Marten) to reach Polymerization and a 2-monster fusion, then protect the board with Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Forbidden Droplet and Solemn Judgment to stop the opponent's first summon or key spell, then rebuild a Lunalight fusion from the Graveyard recursion effects
• Recovery: Recursion from the Graveyard and banish zones: Lunalight Yellow Marten, Silver Hound and Black Sheep return Lunalight monsters to hand, and Lunalight Perfume restores a Lunalight monster from the Graveyard
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is a Lunalight fusion shell with an off-archetype Knightmare Link and tech package, and it is illegal as built: three Forbidden cards are run and two Semi-Limited cards exceed their limit. Its consistency is reasonable on the system level: the 31 Lunalight cards, with 21 searcher-text cards, give a 92% chance of at least one searcher in an opening hand of five (Inferred), but only about 45% of hands contain an archetype core card. Interaction is dense (Ash Blossom x3, Infinite Impermanence, Forbidden Droplet, Solemn Judgment, Harpie's Feather Duster, Lightning Storm, Raigeki), which earns the interaction and resilience dimensions. Its ceiling comes from text reading only, because no recorded boards exist, and the Side Deck is empty, so the going-second and post-side scores stay low. No popularity or meta-share was credited, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 100% Combo profile; the Midrange secondary is recorded but not blended because no combo evidence exists to weigh it. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist and copy-limit exposure (-6); no side deck (-3); engine conflict and archetype mismatch (-3). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*54.7 + 0.20*42 = 52.2; modifiers -12 gives 40.2 uncapped; the list is Illegal, so the score is capped at 25 (theoretical/structural only, not a normal Final score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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 negation and removal suite: Ash Blossom x3, Infinite Impermanence, Forbidden Droplet, Solemn Judgment, Raigeki, Lightning Storm
• High searcher density (21 search-text cards) gives reliable access to the Lunalight engine
• Lunalight Liger Dancer and Sabre Dancer provide 3000+ ATK closers
• Recursion through Yellow Marten, Silver Hound, Black Sheep and Perfume recovers resources

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 3 Forbidden cards and 2 Semi-Limited cards over the copy limit
• Label mismatch: Knightmare is the archetype, but the deck is a Lunalight shell with a 2-card Knightmare Link package
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptability
• Dependence on a 2-copy Polymerization and fusion access, with no independent backup if the fusion route is stopped
• Forbidden Number 41 and Number 60 take Extra Deck slots without any legal function

Critical choke points

• Polymerization (2 copies) is the only fusion enabler; Lunalight fusions depend on it
• Lunalight searchers must be live on turn 1 to reach a fusion; the archetype core is only about 45% likely in an opening hand
• Legality: the deck cannot be played in OCG until the Forbidden and over-limit cards are removed

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 55 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; 3 Forbidden cards and 2 Semi-Limited cards over the limit; Copy histogram: 8 singles, 4 doubles, 13 triples; Archetype purity 2.9% exact name; Lunalight 31 cards; Usage stats: 2 of 7 core cards present (28.6%)
• Inferred: Searcher density gives 92% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand; Archetype core access about 45% in a 5-card opening hand; Hand-trap presence about 68% in a 6-card going-second hand; Interaction density from card text (Ash x3, Impermanence, Droplet, Solemn, Raigeki, Lightning Storm); Combo ceiling from text only (Liger Dancer, Panther Dancer, Sabre Dancer, Knightmare Phoenix, Unicorn)
• Provisional: Meta power and format fit: no tournament link or dated metagame sample; Matchup coverage against current OCG metagame
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second and matchup results unknown Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No guides attached for the Lunalight or Knightmare archetype