Knightmare Deck #770719 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon into Extra Deck boss monsters (Evil★Twin's Trouble Sunny at 3300 ATK, Underworld Goddess, Unchained Soul Lord of Yama, Fiendsmith's Lacrima and Desirae) once a Live☆Twin or Ki-sikil/Lil-la starter is live.; Lil-la and Ki-sikil chains recurring from the GY (Evil★Twin Ki-sikil/Lil-la, Live☆Twin Lil-la Sweet) to re-enable the link line.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Live☆Twin Lil-la or Ki-sikil starter, Special Summon the second Lil-la/Ki-sikil from the Deck, and Link Summon an Evil★Twin link. Search with Secret Password or Fiendsmith Engraver, and protect with Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C", Red Reboot and Live☆Twin Lil-la Sweet's GY negate to slow the opponent's first summon, then rebuild the Link line from the GY.
• Recovery: Recover Lil-la and Ki-sikil monsters from the GY through the Evil★Twin link effects, and rebuild with Unchained Kamura and Reincarnation of the Unchained.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This deck is scored as a structural read only, because it is Illegal in OCG: it runs one copy each of Knightmare Gryphon and D/D/D Wave High King Caesar, both Forbidden, and it has no Side Deck. The system's engine access is the main constraint. The core Live☆Twin starter (3 copies) gives only about a 34% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and the deck spreads across four sub-engines (Live☆Twin 9, Unchained 9, Fiendsmith 8, Evil★Twin 4 cards), so the lines compete for the same Extra Deck slots. Interaction is the deck's strongest area: about 13 searchers and 12 negation-text cards give a high probability of finding a search, and hand traps such as Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Maxx "C" add resilience, though each of those hand traps is limited to 1-2 copies. The score does not come from averaging card scores or from archetype popularity; no combo boards, guides or tournament data exist, so the medians and ceilings are inferred from text only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 47, Going Second ≈ 44, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); illegal cap (-6); engine conflicts (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(49) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 46.2; minus 10 banlist-exposure modifier = 36; capped to 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-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

• High searcher density (13 searcher-text cards), so most hands can find a starter
• Good negation and hand-trap coverage for a Combo deck (Ash Blossom x2, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C", Red Reboot, Dimensional Barrier)
• Large Link-heavy Extra Deck with several 2800-3300 ATK boss monsters

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: two Forbidden cards in the list
• Starter access is low: the 3-copy Live☆Twin Lil-la appears in only about 34% of opening hands
• Four sub-engines (Live☆Twin, Unchained, Fiendsmith, Evil★Twin) compete for Extra slots and dilute consistency
• No Side Deck registered
• Most interaction is limited to 1 copy, so it cannot be repeated

Critical choke points

• The Live☆Twin Lil-la or Ki-sikil starter, which is needed for the Evil★Twin Link route
• Forbidden Knightmare Gryphon and Caesar, which would have to be removed before the deck is legal

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Knightmare Gryphon and D/D/D Wave High King Caesar are Forbidden in OCG (1 copy each); Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0; main and extra counts fit the OCG size rules, but there is no Side Deck; Exact archetype purity 1.8%; sub-engine spread Live☆Twin 9, Unchained 9, Fiendsmith 8, Evil★Twin 4; Card text and banlist status for each listed card are taken from the evidence pack
• Observed: Usage statistics show Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird as archetype-core inclusions, and 2 of 5 core cards are present
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter access (≈0.34 for the 3-copy Live☆Twin Lil-la in a 5-card hand); Interaction and search density from card text; Engine conflicts and brick risk from the sub-engine spread; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (D13), because no dated meta sample or tournament link exists
• 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 No guides attached Deck title is null and the archetype label Knightmare does not describe the mixed engine list No Side Deck registered