Infernoble Knight Deck #772345 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 61 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Infernoble Knight / Noble Knight Synchro and Link boards (Emperor Charles, Captain Roland, Maugis, Oliver) pressured by Equip-boosted FIRE Warriors; Flame Swordsman Fusion and Link boards (Ultimate Flame Swordsman, Promethean Princess) with Equip Spell attack boosts
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Preparation of Rites, Fighting Flame Swordsman, Salamandra Fusion or Infernoble Arms cards, then extend into a Noble Knight or Flame Swordsman Synchro/Link board; the list has no combo data to confirm the exact line
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Maxx C (and Droll & Lock Bird) to disrupt the opponent, then extend through Ricciardetto, Oliver and Renaud boards; the removal and negation text is the only evidence for this (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through searchers and Graveyard-effect monsters (Fighting Flame Swordsman, Ricciardetto, Oliver, Salamandra with Chain), since the GY-to-field summon effects are the main rebuild path
• After siding: No Side Deck is submitted (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan; the single largest structural gap in this list

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal in OCG: it runs two Forbidden cards (Isolde and Baronne de Fleur), has a 61-card Main Deck against a 40-60 limit, and contains one unresolved passcode, so its Final Contextual score is capped at 25 and the 54 Structural score is theoretical only. The structural read is still informative: the 29 searcher-text cards give about a 97% chance of at least one searcher in an opening 5-card hand (Inferred), and the 20-copy archetype core gives about an 87% chance of opening at least one core card, so the engine is easy to find. Interaction is a real strength, with 4 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards and 17 removal-text cards giving breadth across the Flame Swordsman, Noble Knight and Artmage lines. Points are lost for brick-prone spread (only 2.7% exact-name archetype purity, with 34 singletons and 73 off-archetype copies), the illegal size and copy counts, and the absence of a Side Deck. No combo boards were recorded, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences and not observed outputs. Popularity and archetype usage were not used to raise the score, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); no side deck (-3); unresolved passcode (-1). Final formula: Illegal cap: Final = 25 (theoretical/structural only). Uncapped formula would be 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 0.80*54 + 0.20*50 = 53.2, which is not applied because the list is Illegal.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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

• Searcher density (29 searcher-text cards) makes the engine easy to find
• Layered interaction: 4 hand traps, 11 negation-text and 17 removal-text cards
• Multiple Extra Deck closers (Emperor Charles 3000 ATK, Ultimate Flame Swordsman 2800 ATK)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: two Forbidden cards and an oversized Main Deck
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Low archetype purity (2.7%) and many singletons, so brick and redundancy risk is high
• No combo or matchup evidence to confirm the real output

Critical choke points

• Any one of the 2 Forbidden cards being run makes the list illegal, so the list cannot be played as built
• Extra Deck link and synchro enablers are single copies (Isolde, Captain Roland, Emperor Charles) with no redundancy

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 2 Forbidden cards run (Isolde, Baronne de Fleur); Main Deck size 61 outside 40-60; Extra Deck 14; Limited cards run at 1 copy each (Droll, Lucina, Tinia, Maxx C, S:P Little Knight) which is legal; Semi-Limited Ash Blossom run at 2 copies (legal); Side Deck count 0; Exact-name archetype purity 2.7%
• Inferred: P(>=1 searcher in opening 5) = 0.966 from the hypergeometric table; P(>=1 archetype-core card in opening 5) = 0.874; Hand trap and negation coverage read from card text; Dimension scores D1-D14 (all Inferred except D10, D11, D12 which are Verified)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit (no archetype share or tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent One passcode (45231177) in CardIDList could not be resolved and is counted as Main No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates), so those are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No guides were attached (guides_evidence total 0)