Knightmare Deck #773188 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 12 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Maliss and Knightmare Link Monsters (Red Ransom, White Binder, Hearts Crypter, Accesscode Talker) closing through link-chain pressure and hand-trap interaction (Inferred from card text).; Bystial Druiswurm and Bystial Baldrake Special Summon loops from the GY and banished zones (Inferred from card text).
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Maliss starters and search (Maliss Chessy Cat, Maliss MTP-07, Maliss TB-11) toward a 2-monster link. Hold Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird for the opponent's first activation (Inferred).
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with 18 hand-trap/tech cards to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild a Link board from the Maliss archetype core (Inferred).
• Recovery: Banish-based recursion through Maliss in Underground and Maliss Traps plus Bystial GY Special Summons to rebuild links after a hand-trap exchange (Inferred).
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This OCG Knightmare/Maliss list is illegal: it runs 3 copies of several Limited and Semi-Limited cards, and it runs 5 Forbidden cards including 3 Dimension Shifters. Under the rubric it does not earn a normal final score, so it is capped at 20 and the scoring below is structural and theoretical only. The 14 dimensions were scored on the system: the core (9 Maliss copies, 60.6% to have at least one in a 5-card opening hand), 18 hand traps and 16 negation effects give strong interaction, and the Link Extra Deck (14 Links) gives closing reach. Consistency and floor are held down by the absence of a recorded combo sample, a 2.9% exact archetype-name purity, and a brick-prone spread across three sub-archetypes. No Side Deck exists, so the post-side dimension is near zero. Popularity was not credited, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: balanced. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); illegal list cap (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 47.8, then modifiers -12 (banlist exposure), then capped to 20 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Heavy hand-trap and negation density (18 hand traps, 16 negation-text cards) gives strong going-second interaction.
• Link-based closers at 2300-2500 ATK with a 14-Link Extra Deck.
• Maliss core (9 copies) gives 60.6% opening-hand access to at least one core card.

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: copy-limit violations and five Forbidden cards.
• No Side Deck, so there is no best-of-3 adaptation.
• Low exact-archetype purity (2.9%) and spread across Maliss, Bystial and Artifact sub-routes.

Critical choke points

• The deck needs a Maliss monster and a Maliss Link to start most lines; a hand without one is a brick (Inferred).

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 55 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side; 12 copy/banlist violations; 5 Forbidden cards in the list.; Usage stats: S:P Little Knight 77.8% and I:P Masquerena 66.7% inclusion; both absent from this list.
• Inferred: Maliss core opening-hand access (0.606) and hand-trap coverage (0.920 going-second).; Interaction density from 16 negation-text and 33 removal-text cards.; Brick rate and consistency from the split across three sub-archetypes.
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or 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 are absent. No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred. No Side Deck (0 cards); post-side plan cannot be evaluated. Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample.