Infernoble Knight Deck #772295 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss and link monsters (Emperor Charles, Gearfried, Ultimate Flame Swordsman) enabled by Flame Swordsman / Infernoble Knight / Noble Knight equip-and-search lines; Fusion and Synchro follow-ups through Salamandra, Fighting Flame Dragon, Angelica and Captain Roland
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Level 4 or lower Warrior to search a Flame Swordsman, Noble Knight or Noble Arms card, then equip or Special Summon into a Link or Synchro boss; keep Ash Blossom, Droll or Solemn up when the board is set
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird) and Solemn cards to stop the opponent's first summon, then rebuild a board through the archetype search cards
• Recovery: Recover through Salamandra with Chain, Flame Swordsrealm and Heritage of the Chalice from the GY, plus Dark Flare Swordsman and Fighting Flame Swordsman recursion
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; a best-of-3 build would need a side list to adjust to matchups

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from the system: the archetype core (22 copies, about 92% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand) gives it reliable access to a search-and-equip engine, and the Extra Deck bosses (Emperor Charles, Gearfried, Ultimate Flame Swordsman) give it real closing power. Interaction is broad, with 7 hand traps and about 17 negation-text cards, so it can answer a first summon. The score is held down by an illegal copy count on Ash Blossom, a 58-card main deck with 16 tech and 19 searcher-text cards that dilutes the engine, no side deck, and no combo or tournament evidence. Archetype popularity earned no points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy limit cap (-4); Banlist exposure (-6); No side deck (-4); Engine dilution (-2); Unresolved passcode (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 39 pre-cap; capped to 35 because the deck is Illegal (over copy limit)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.08 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core at 22 copies gives a high chance of a live searcher in the opening hand
• Broad interaction: 7 hand traps, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment and Ash Blossom cover the first summon
• Strong Extra Deck boss options at ATK 2800 to 3000 (Gearfried, Emperor Charles, Ultimate Flame Swordsman)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy count: Ash Blossom at 3 copies in an OCG list limited to 2
• 58-card main deck with 16 tech cards and many one-of slots is inconsistent for the core engine
• No side deck registered, so the list cannot adapt across a best-of-3
• No combo or tournament evidence, so the deck's real performance is unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom at 3 copies is illegal and is also a key hand trap; removing one copy is required before the deck can score normally
• The archetype search cards (Flame Swordsman, Noble Knight, Noble Arms) must be drawn to start the engine; a hand with none of them is dead
• Extra Deck bosses depend on Emperor Charles and Gearfried being live; losing both to a hand trap or board wipe stops the closing plan

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 58 / Extra 14 / Side 0 match OCG size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring: 3 copies run, OCG limit 2 (Illegal); Five Limited cards run at 1 copy each and are legal; Card stats: Gearfried ATK 3000, Emperor Charles ATK 3000, Ultimate Flame Swordsman ATK 2800; Archetype core probability at least one in 5-card hand approx 0.92
• Inferred: Engine consistency from hypergeometric estimates (D1 60, D2 55); Interaction quality from text flags (D7 60); Going-first and going-second power estimates from text and composition; Brick risk from tech density and conditional cards
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample was supplied; D13 matchup fit is provisional with no tournament data
• 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 are absent One passcode in CardIDList could not be resolved to a card and is counted as main No side deck registered: post-side plan cannot be scored No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied