Mekk-Knights Deck #772548 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a large Shaddoll Fusion Monster (El Shaddoll Elysium-class boards are not present; the highest-ATK Extra Deck options are Invoked Elysium 3200 ATK, El Shaddoll Apkallone 2500 ATK and Invoked Mechaba 2500 ATK) through El Shaddoll Fusion / Shaddoll Fusion on the strength of the Shaddoll flip monsters.; Recursion-driven grind: Shaddoll Hedgehog, Resh Shaddoll Incarnation and Naelshaddoll Ariel recover Shaddoll monsters from the GY and banished zone, and Shaddoll Falco/Qadshaddoll Keios re-Special Summon them.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Shaddoll searcher (Hedgehog flip or Shaddoll Core) and fire El Shaddoll Fusion or Shaddoll Fusion using the flip monsters on the field as material to reach a first Extra Deck summon.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Squamata / Dragon flip effects and Apkallone / Anoyatyllis / Grysta / Shekhinaga negations to answer the opponent's first board, then convert the recovered material into a Fusion Summon.
• Recovery: Recover Shaddoll monsters through Resh Shaddoll Incarnation, Naelshaddoll Ariel and Shaddoll Falco from the GY or banished zone and re-fuse them.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (side_count 0), so no post-side plan exists in the list.

Why it scores here

The list is built on a real Shaddoll engine: three copies each of El Shaddoll Fusion and Shaddoll Fusion, three Shaddoll Core and Hedgehog searchers, and 16 searcher-text cards give an estimated 80% chance of at least one searcher in the opening hand (Inferred), so the engine is reliably accessible on turn one. Score comes from the system: consistent starter access, several independent flip-effect interaction routes (Squamata, Dragon, Apkallone, Anoyatyllis, Grysta, Shekhinaga) and fusion-based closing power (Invoked Elysium 3200 ATK, Apkallone and Mechaba 2500 ATK), not from averaging card scores. Popularity did not earn points: the Mekk-Knights archetype label is cosmetic, since only 5 of 60 main cards are Mekk-Knight and 40 are Shaddoll, and no tournament or win-rate data exists. The deck is Illegal because Allure of Darkness runs 3 copies against a Limited limit of 1, and it has no Side Deck, so it is scored as a theoretical, structural-only read and capped at 35.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); engine_conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 50.8, then modifiers -8, then illegal cap to 35 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.23 · 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 Shaddoll searcher and fusion-starter core (3 copies each of Shaddoll Core, Hedgehog, El Shaddoll Fusion, Shaddoll Fusion)
• Multiple independent flip-effect interaction routes
• High-ATK fusion finishers (Invoked Elysium 3200, Apkallone 2500, Mechaba 2500)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy count on Allure of Darkness (3 vs limit 1)
• Off-archetype dilution: 0% exact Mekk-Knights purity, 40 Shaddoll vs 5 Mekk-Knight
• No Side Deck and no post-side plan
• Two unresolved passcodes (86120751 x3, 20366274 x2) counted as main

Critical choke points

• Dependence on the Shaddoll searcher/fusion core: losing Hedgehog, Core and both fusion spells to the opponent collapses the engine
• Single-copy Allure and Gamma are illegal or unreliable starters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0 meets OCG size rules; Allure of Darkness 3 copies vs legal limit 1 (Limited); Archetype spread: Shaddoll 40, Invoked 12, Mekk-Knight 5; Invoked Elysium 3200/4000 and Apkallone 2500/2000 stats
• Inferred: P(>=1 searcher in opening 5) ≈ 0.80 from the searcher-text group; Engine accessibility and recursion routes derived from card text; Closing power from fusion stats and card text
• Provisional: Tournament reliability (no tournament data); Matchup and format fit (no dated meta)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent 2 passcode(s) in CardIDList could not be resolved to a card (counted as main) deck is Illegal (Allure of Darkness over copy limit), so no normal Final Contextual score is given no side deck, so no post-side evidence no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied