Infernoble Knight Deck #775049 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro/Link/Fusion boss from the Extra Deck (Infernoble Knight Emperor Charles, Emperor Charles the Great, Angelica, Fighting Flame Dragon line) carried by Equip Spells and FIRE Warrior bodies; Ultimate Flame Swordsman / Battlin' Boxer King Dempsey as a board-breaking follow-up when the Flame Swordsman engine lands
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Noble Knight or Flame Swordsman starter, search an engine piece (Reinforcement of the Army, Salamandra with Chain, Flame Swordsrealm) and protect the first summon with Ash Blossom / Ghost Belle / Ghost Ogre, then build a Synchro or Fusion boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll, Red Reboot, Crossout Designator and the Tuner hand traps to disrupt the opposing combo, then use Maxx "C" and Flame Swordsdance to rebuild the Extra Deck boss
• Recovery: Recover through searchers (Noble Arms Museum, Infernoble Arms Durendal/Joyeuse, Captain Roland) and Artmage Impasto or Phoenix Gearblade to rebuild a Tuner/Equip line from the GY
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has zero Side Deck cards, so no post-side plan exists in the export

Why it scores here

This deck is structurally illegal in OCG: three Forbidden cards (Triple Tactics Talent, Isolde x2, Baronne de Fleur) are run beyond their legal copy count, so the score is theoretical and capped at 35. The core Infernoble Knight / Noble Knight and Flame Swordsman engine is reliably accessible, with about 90% odds of at least one archetype card in the opening 5, and it carries a deep interaction suite (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Red Reboot, Crossout Designator, Maxx C). Those strengths are offset by low archetype purity (2.9% exact-name), a scattered mix of Flame Swordsman, Mulcharmy, Artmage, HERO and Harpie cards that creates brick and engine-conflict risk, and no Side Deck at all. No combo boards, tournament data or meta sample are present, so the floor, median and ceiling are inferred from card text only. The score comes from consistency and interaction on the system, not from the archetype's popularity or from averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox secondary (not separately weighted). Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); illegal-list cap (-6). Final formula: Illegal list: theoretical cap applied. 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 50.6; minus 10 banlist-exposure modifier = 41; capped to 35. Meta Power provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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

• Deep layered interaction: 9 hand traps, 13 negation-text and 23 removal-text cards
• Reliable archetype access (about 90% for at least one core card in an opening 5)
• Strong Extra Deck boss options at 3000 ATK
• Several independent restarts through searchers and Tuner hand traps

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: three Forbidden cards run over the limit
• Very low archetype purity (2.9%) and three competing engines
• No Side Deck at all
• Heavy brick risk from spells and off-archetype cards

Critical choke points

• Dependence on Equip Spells to make the Extra Deck boss (Equip-based Synchro/Fusion lines)
• Forbidden cards (Isolde, Baronne de Fleur, Triple Tactics Talent) cannot be played as built

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: three Forbidden cards run over the legal copy limit; Main 56 and Extra 14 are within OCG size rules; Side 0; Archetype core inclusion and purity figures from usage statistics
• Observed: Archetype core usage stats (100% inclusion for Dark Flare Swordsman, Salamandra, Gearfried, Flame Swordsrealm)
• Inferred: Opening-hand odds (hypergeometric) and brick estimate; Interaction density and going-second disruption from card text; Turn-1/2 plans and recovery route from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated meta sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no Side Deck in the export: post-side performance cannot be assessed 1 passcode (45231177) could not be resolved to a card and was counted as Main no win-rate telemetry; going-first/second and brick rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied