Phantom Knights Deck #409709 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Xyz/Link mechanic
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Phantom Knights Xyz and Link boards (The Phantom Knights of Break Sword, Raider's Knight, Rusty Bardiche) built from the Phantom Knights searchers and recursion; Horus and Adventurer top-ends (Imsety, Hapi, The Zombie Vampire, Wandering Gryphon Rider) that need King's Sarcophagus or Adventurer Token support
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Phantom Knights starter (Torn Scales or Silent Boots) and search or Special Summon into a Level 3 Xyz line; unverified without board data
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Fog Blade style interaction through the opponent's first board, then convert through Xyz; unverified without board data
• Recovery: Banish Phantom Knights monsters from the GY to search Spell/Traps and re-summon; Ash Blossom and Fog Blade provide interruption (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal as submitted: three copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a Semi-Limited limit of two, so it receives a capped score and the figures below describe structure only. Its Phantom Knights core (19 exact-name cards, 33% exact-name purity) reliably reaches a starter in the opening hand (about 0.80 for the 11-copy core group, Inferred), and its searcher and recursion text gives a plausible grind. Interaction is layered through Ash Blossom, Fog Blade, Wing and the hand traps, but going-second breaking is unproven. Score comes from the system: consistency, interaction and resource recovery, with a penalty for 14 off-archetype copies (Adventurer, Horus, Roid, Burning Abyss) and an empty side deck. Popularity was not credited and card scores were not averaged. No combos, guides or tournament data were supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only estimates.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52.3, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-6); Illegal cap (-14). Final formula: Structural 52.3 (Midrange profile); unrestricted formula 0.80*52.3 + 0.20*40 + modifiers(-6) ≈ 44; Illegal cap applied, final = 30 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · 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 Phantom Knights starter and searcher base gives a high chance of a live engine in opening 5 (Inferred)
• Layered interaction across Ash, Fog Blade, Wing, hand traps and Number 90 (Inferred)
• Strong Xyz and Link finishers available in the Extra Deck (Verified card text)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy count of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (Verified)
• Only 33% exact-name archetype purity; 14 generic and several splash archetype cards (Verified)
• Empty side deck gives no post-side adaptation (Verified)
• No combo, guide or tournament data; output is not validated against real boards (Verified)

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring over the copy limit: the deck cannot be played as listed until one copy is removed (Verified)
• Horus and Adventurer splash top-ends depend on King's Sarcophagus and Adventurer Token support that the core may not reliably provide (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies, legal limit 2; Main 42, Extra 15, Side 0 are within the size rules for tcg; Exact-name archetype purity 33.3%; 14 generic and 2 Adventurer splash counts in the composition; Side deck is empty
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability ≈ 0.80 for the core group; Interaction density from negation and removal text counts; Going-first and going-second estimates from text only
• Provisional: Meta and tournament-level format fit (no dated sample)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck supplied, so post-side plan is unscored