Phantom Knights Deck #267166 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 43/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 50 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz Summon a high-ATK Utopia or Number boss (Number S39: Utopia Prime, Number 99: Utopia Dragonar) through Rank-Up-Magic chains and Phantom Knights Xyz plays; Chaos and Number Xyz boards (Number C5, Number C92) built from GY and Rank-Up-Magic recursion
• Turn 1 (going first): Hand-start a Level 4 or lower monster (Utopic Onomatopoeia, Zubababancho Gagagacoat, Dodododwarf Gogogoglove) or search with Onomatopaira / Zexal Construction, then build a Level 3 or 4 Xyz base for a Rank-Up-Magic line
• Turn 2 (going second): Rely on a six-card hand with one of the same hand-start monsters or a searcher and a Fog Blade negation; the deck has no hand traps to stop the opponent's first board
• Recovery: Banish Phantom Knights GY monsters (Ancient Cloak, Silent Boots, Torn Scales) to re-search Phantom Knights Spell/Traps and re-enter Xyz plays from the Graveyard
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; any adjustment is structurally unavailable in best-of-3

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a hand-start Level 4 monster or a searcher about 93 percent of the time (20 searcher-text cards), and the copy histogram gives a 27.6 percent chance of at least one 3-of starter in a going-first opening hand, so the first turn is likely but not guaranteed (Inferred). The conversion route, a Rank-Up-Magic Xyz chain into Utopia or Number bosses, is plausible from card text, but there are no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only estimates and score moderately. The deck's interaction is thin: one negation Trap, no hand traps and no floodgates, which caps going-second board-breaking and end-board quality. Exact archetype purity is only 27.7 percent across nine related sub-archetypes, so engine coherence is a real concern, and the list has no Side Deck, which removes the post-side score lever entirely. Archetype popularity and the Limited copies in the list were not counted as power, and card scores were not averaged into the deck result.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange 80% / Toolbox 20% (Midrange weights used as the primary; Toolbox dimension weights are not separately applied). Structural ≈ 48.5, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Engine conflicts / low archetype purity (-3); No Side Deck (-2); Thin interaction package (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*48.5 + 0.20*45 = 47.8, then modifiers -5 gives 42.8, rounded to 43

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.28 · 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

• Legal list with copies within Limited and Forbidden limits and a Main Deck inside the 40 to 60 range
• High searcher density (20 searcher-text cards) gives a reliable route to the key Xyz and Rank-Up-Magic pieces
• Hand-start Level 4 monsters (Utopic Onomatopoeia, Zubababancho Gagagacoat, Dodododwarf Gogogoglove) allow a going-first start without a full Xyz board
• Strong closing bosses in the Extra Deck, including Number 99: Utopia Dragonar at 3000 ATK and Number S39: Utopia Prime at 2510 ATK

Weaknesses

• Exact archetype purity of 27.7 percent across nine related sub-archetypes weakens engine coherence
• No hand traps and no floodgates, so going-second interaction is minimal
• No Side Deck, so the deck cannot adapt between games
• Most searchers and Spell cards need a live Xyz board before they do anything, which creates brick risk in hands without a starter

Critical choke points

• The Xyz base: most lines need a Level 3 or 4 monster on the field and a matching Rank-Up-Magic or Xyz Summon
• Only one negation Trap (Phantom Knights' Fog Blade) is available to protect the board

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal: 50 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, all restricted copies within limit (Foolish Burial 1 of 1, Reinforcement of the Army 1 of 1); Exact archetype purity is 27.7 percent with nine related sub-archetypes present; Zero hand traps and zero floodgates by role flags; Extra Deck is 14 Xyz plus 1 Link
• Observed: Phantom Knights usage stats show Rank-Up-Magic Launch at 87.5 percent inclusion and nine core cards, only one of which (Rank-Up-Magic Launch) is in this list
• Inferred: Going-first starter probability of about 0.28 from the hypergeometric draw table; Searcher-based consistency of about 0.93 for at least one searcher; Going-second weakness from the absence of hand traps and only one negation Trap; Engine coherence penalty from the sub-archetype spread
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample and no tournament link are available
• 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 record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first or second, matchup, brick, starter, or OTK rates) exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck is registered, so post-side performance cannot be scored