Knightmare Deck #773123 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Rescue-ACE boss and link monsters (Rescue-ACE Arbitrator, Rescue-ACE Turbulence, Rescue-ACE Preventer, Rescue-ACE Fire Engine) built through the Rescue-ACE searcher and revival line (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Link and Xyz beats from the Extra Deck (Promethean Princess, Raging Phoenix, Super Starslayer TY-PHON, Worldsea Dragon Zealantis) once the board is established (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Rescue-ACE searcher or starter (ALERT!, Rescue-ACE Air Lifter, Rescue-ACE Quick Attacker, Rescue-ACE Hydrant) and keep Ash Blossom or Nibiru as hand interaction while the board is being built (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Droll & Lock Bird) or Solemn/Lightning Storm-style interaction to break the opponent's board, then rebuild through the Rescue-ACE line (Inferred)
• Recovery: Rescue-ACE Fire Attacker and Rescue-ACE Preventer recur from the GY/banish zone under their text, and RESCUE! and EMERGENCY! return monsters to the field (Inferred from excerpts)
• After siding: None: side_count is 0, so there is no sideboard plan and no post-side adjustment is available

Why it scores here

This is an Illegal list (three cards over their OCG copy limit), so the score is capped at 30 and labelled theoretical/structural-only. The structure is a Rescue-ACE engine: 26 Rescue-ACE cards plus a searcher package (12 searcher-text cards, P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.72) gives reasonable access to the core, though no recorded boards exist to confirm conversion. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: 7 hand traps, 10 negation-text cards and 17 removal-text cards cover both the going-first and going-second turns, and the Extra Deck supplies several high-ATK boss links. The score is built from consistency, interaction and closing power on the system as a whole, not from averaging card scores, and popularity did not add points. The main drags are the absence of a sideboard, the 3-copy overage on three cards, and the lack of any combo or tournament evidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 53.2, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (copy-limit violation) (-10). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 51.6, then modifiers -10 = 41.6; capped to 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.72 · 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 interaction package: 7 hand traps, 10 negation-text cards, 17 removal-text cards
• Redundant hand-trap access: Ash Blossom and Nibiru at 3 copies each
• Rescue-ACE sub-archetype is internally coherent (26 cards) with recursion and searchers
• Extra Deck has high-ATK boss links and broad Link coverage

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three cards exceed their copy limits
• No sideboard (side_count 0), so no post-side plan
• No recorded combos or tournament data to verify conversion
• Heavy reliance on conditional Rescue-ACE and Hydrant-gated effects
• Only 1 card matches the exact archetype name; 20 generic cards dilute the engine

Critical choke points

• Rescue-ACE Hydrant as the gate for several Rescue-ACE effects (text-based, Inferred)
• Searcher access (12 cards, about 0.72 chance of one in hand5) as the main route to the boss line
• Extra Deck boss access: S:P Little Knight and I:P Masquerena are core-usage cards and are not run (usage stats)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal; three cards over copy limit (Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse, Super Polymerization); Main 56 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side 0; Usage stats: 3 of 5 core cards present; S:P Little Knight and I:P Masquerena missing; Card text and banlist status for all resolved cards; Hypergeometric draw odds from the resolved main deck
• Inferred: Engine consistency and brick rate from card text and probabilities; Going-first and going-second plans and recovery route from card text; Interaction quality from negation and removal text; Closing power from ATK and text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample; Tournament reliability: no tournament link
• 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/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown No sideboard data: side_count 0 Deck title is null Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample