Phantom Knights Deck #409707 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG
41 Main, 15 Extra, incl. Blackwing - Simoon the Poison Wind x3, Blackwing - Sudri the Phantom Glimmer x3, Droll & Lock Bird x3. Created Jan 17, 2025 by YGO Mod.
Created by: YGO Mod (20517634)
Created On: 01/17/2025
Main Deck (41)
- Assault Blackwing - Kunai the Drizzle x1
- Blackwing - Bora the Spear x1
- Blackwing - Chinook the Snow Blast x1
- Blackwing - Harmattan the Dust x1
- Blackwing - Simoon the Poison Wind x3
- Blackwing - Sudri the Phantom Glimmer x3
- Blackwing - Zephyros the Elite x1
- Blackwing - Zonda the Dusk x1
- Droll & Lock Bird x3
- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring x3
- Assault Synchron x1
- Blackwing - Shamal the Sandstorm x3
- Blackwing - Sharnga the Waning Moon x1
- Blackwing - Vata the Emblem of Wandering x3
- Effect Veiler x2
- Black Feather Whirlwind x1
- Black Whirlwind x3
- Called by the Grave x1
- Rank-Up-Magic Skip Force x1
- Small World x3
- The Phantom Knights' Rank-Up-Magic Launch x1
- Infinite Impermanence x3
Extra Deck (15)
- Darkness Metal, the Dragon of Dark Steel x1
- Raidraptor - Wise Strix x1
- S:P Little Knight x1
- Black-Winged Assault Dragon x2
- Black-Winged Dragon x1
- Blackwing - Nothung the Starlight x1
- Blackwing Full Armor Master x1
- Bystial Dis Pater x1
- Blackwing - Boreastorm the Wicked Wind x1
- D/D/D Duo-Dawn King Kali Yuga x1
- Raider's Knight x1
- Raidraptor - Arsenal Falcon x1
- Raidraptor - Brave Strix x1
- Raidraptor - Ultimate Falcon x1
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Deck — Deck Power Evaluation
Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)
| Overall score | Value |
|---|---|
| Structural Deck Power | 52 |
| Going First | 55 |
| Going Second | 60 |
| Meta Power | provisional |
| Tournament Reliability | 45 |
- Primary strategy: Midrange
- Secondary strategies: Combo
- Format: tcg
Legality
Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).
Identity & game plan
- Win condition: Synchro and Xyz boards (Black-Winged Assault Dragon, Raidraptor - Ultimate Falcon, Blackwing Full Armor Master) built from a Blackwing and hand-trap opening; theoretical only because the list is illegal.; Link and Xyz follow-up through Raidraptor - Wise Strix and Raidraptor - Arsenal Falcon, which need Raidraptor material the deck barely supports.
- Turn 1 (going first): Open a Blackwing searcher or Tuner, search with Black Whirlwind or Small World, and Synchro into a 3000+ ATK monster while holding Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence for the response.
- Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Effect Veiler to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Blackwing Synchro monsters.
- Recovery: Blackwing searchers and Special Summons from hand (Vata, Bora, Harmattan) refill the board; Blackwing - Zephyros the Elite recurs from the GY.
- After siding: No side deck is run (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan to evaluate; the rule-limited list would need a 0-15 card side to adapt.
Why it scores here
The deck opens a Blackwing-based plan reasonably often: searcher text appears in 12 Main Deck cards and the hypergeometric estimate of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand is about 0.84 (Inferred). Its hand-trap package (11 cards) gives it a strong going-second profile, with about 0.87 odds of at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand (Inferred). The end-board is capable, with Black-Winged Assault Dragon, Ultimate Falcon and Blackwing Full Armor Master as Extra Deck payoffs. Points are held back because the deck mixes at least six sub-archetypes (Blackwing, Raidraptor, Phantom Knights, Synchron, Bystial, D/D, Red-Eyes), so the engine conflicts and bricks, and the list breaks copy limits on three cards. No combos or tournament data were supplied, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-based estimates only. The score was not derived from the Blackwing archetype's popularity or from averaging individual card scores. Because the deck is illegal, the score is capped as a theoretical, structural-only read.
Dimension scores
| # | Dimension | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| D1 | Engine Accessibility & Consistency | 60 | P(at least one searcher in 5-card hand) about 0.84; Blackwing starters present but spread across sub-archetypes (Inferred) |
| D2 | Opening-Hand Quality & Brick Management | 45 | Archetype core P(open in 5) about 0.42 and 12 tech/dead-in-hand cards suggest frequent non-functional hands (Inferred) |
| D3 | Combo Conversion & Ceiling | 50 | No parseable boards; ceiling read from card text: Synchro chains reach 3000+ ATK boards (Inferred) |
| D4 | Combo Floor & Median Output | 42 | No recorded boards and no median index; floor estimated from brick risk and conflicting Xyz/Link lines (Inferred) |
| D5 | Interruption Resilience & Route Redundancy | 55 | Multiple hand traps and recursive Blackwing monsters give alternate routes after a single disruption (Inferred) |
| D6 | Resource Economy, Recovery & Grind | 55 | Searchers and GY recursion (Zephyros, Black Whirlwind) support rebuild; no resource data (Inferred) |
| D7 | End-Board & Interaction Quality | 62 | 10 negation and 15 removal text cards, including Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence (Inferred semantic read from text) |
| D8 | Going-Second & Board-Breaking Power | 62 | Hand-trap density and Droll/Veiler give good going-second board breaking; Forbidden Called by the Grave is not legal (Inferred) |
| D9 | Offensive Pressure & Closing Power | 65 | End-board boss monsters at 3200 to 3500 ATK with piercing Blackwing monsters (Verified stats, Inferred closing) |
| D10 | Main Deck Efficiency & Flexibility | 40 | 41 Main cards across 22 distinct names with 54 off-archetype copies and 12 tech cards; compactness weakened (Verified composition) |
| D11 | Extra Deck Efficiency & Coverage | 50 | 15 Extra Deck slots split 7 Synchro, 5 Xyz, 3 Link; mixed-engine Extra Deck with limited coverage (Verified composition) |
| D12 | Side Deck Adaptability | 15 | No Side Deck is run; no post-side plan can be assessed (Verified legality) |
| D13 | Matchup Coverage & Format Fit | 50 | No tournament link or meta share; format fit is provisional (Provisional) |
| D14 | Pilotability & Error Tolerance | 35 | Multi-archetype engine with many decision points between hand traps and Xyz/Synchro lines (Inferred) |
How the score was computed
Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-12) = 39; Illegal-deck cap (Step 2) applied: final 30, theoretical/structural-only
Probability & combo summary
- Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.84 · 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 searcher and hand-trap package gives frequent access to functional hands
- Multiple interaction layers (negation text 10, removal text 15) support going second
- Strong Extra Deck end-boards (3200 to 3500 ATK) for closing
Weaknesses
- Illegal copy counts: 3 Ash Blossom (2 legal), 3 Droll & Lock Bird (1 legal), 1 Called by the Grave (Forbidden)
- Six or more sub-archetypes compete for the same hand and Extra Deck slots
- No Side Deck; no adaptability for best-of-3
Critical choke points
- Blackwing monster in hand is required for most Synchro and Xyz lines
- Limited/Semi-Limited copy counts make the list unplayable as written
Recommended changes
| Priority | Remove | Add | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 copy of Called by the Grave | Any legal Blackwing or Synchro staple | Forbidden card; removing it makes the list legal on the banlist axis |
| 2 | 1 copy of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and 2 copies of Droll & Lock Bird | Legal-count replacements from the Blackwing core | Brings copy counts to the legal limits (2 and 1) and frees slots for the core engine |
| 3 | Off-archetype tech cards (Raidraptor and Phantom Knights one-offs) | Blackwing-support cards | Reduces engine conflict and raises D10 and D1 consistency |
Evidence & confidence
- Verified: Illegal status with three copy-limit violations (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Called by the Grave); Main 41 and Extra 15 within TCG size rules; Side 0 legal; Card stats and composition counts from the evidence pack
- Inferred: Searcher and hand-trap hypergeometric odds; Going-second hand-trap coverage; Engine conflict across sub-archetypes; Board-breaking and closing estimates from text and Extra Deck stats
- Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Post-side adaptability (no side deck)
- Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no Side Deck: post-side performance cannot be assessed
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