Phantom Knights Deck #751048 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 37/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Combo
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck bosses (Chaos Dyson Sphere C9, Magellanica, Dyson Sphere, Geo Kraken) reached through Level-4 Warrior summons and Link/Xyz/Fusion material lines; Photon Thrasher (2100 ATK) and Berfomet as fallback beatsticks when the Extra Deck line is available
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Level-4 Warrior (Marauding Captain, Fire Flint Lady, Sublimation Knight or Neo Space Connector) to Special Summon a second body, then build a Link or Xyz boss from the field
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Level-4 summons and Extra Deck bosses to contest the board; Zealantis and C15 provide removal once a boss is out, but there are no hand traps
• Recovery: Silent Boots and Ancient Cloak banish from the GY to search Phantom Knights Spell/Trap cards; Battlin' Boxer Uppercutter recurs monsters from the GY
• After siding: None: the side deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Level-4 summon: roughly 25 starter-like copies give about 0.94 chance of at least one in an opening five, and 17 searcher-text cards help find pieces. Its real problem is identity: only 3 of the 25 archetype-core usage cards are present and only 3 cards are exact Phantom Knights names, so the Phantom Knights engine is largely absent and the list is a Warrior toolbox of unrelated sub-archetypes. Nine cards (Tailwind of Gusto x2, Bamboo Sword x3, Earthbound Prisoner x2, Temple of the Kings, Zexal Field) depend on archetype targets the list does not contain, which lowers consistency and brick management. The high score ceiling comes from Extra Deck bosses such as Chaos Dyson Sphere C9 (3600 ATK), but no recorded boards exist, so floor and median output are text-only inferences. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype is well known, but the scoring rests on the deck's own system and not on averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 46.7, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 47, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Dead or conditional card burden (-4); No core engine / off-archetype spread (-3); Extra Deck dependence on other archetypes (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural recomputed without D13 and renormalized over 95): 0.80*46.7 + 0.20*45 - 9 = 37.4

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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 Level-4 Warrior summoner base (about 25 copies) gives reliable early bodies
• 17 searcher-text cards provide strong card access
• High Extra Deck boss ceiling (Chaos C9 3600 ATK, Magellanica 3000, Dyson Sphere 2800)

Weaknesses

• Only 3 of 25 usage-core cards present; the Phantom Knights engine is largely missing
• Nine cards depend on archetype targets the list does not contain
• No hand traps and an empty side deck
• Extra Deck material lines conflict across Number, Chaos and Link sub-archetypes

Critical choke points

• Phantom Knights lines rest on three exact-name cards
• Fusion Gate and Chain Material lines need Fusion Monsters in hand or field
• Chaos C9, Number C15 and Dyson Sphere need specific Xyz material from other archetypes

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Master Duel: 60 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Reinforcement of the Army is Limited with 1 copy run; Only 3 of 25 usage-core cards present; exact-name purity 4 percent; Card text confirms the dead-card list (Tailwind, Bamboo Sword, Earthbound Prisoner)
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability ~0.94 going first, ~0.97 going second; Brick and conditional-card rates from card text and composition; Interaction quality from negation and removal text; Going-first and going-second power splits
• Provisional: D13 matchup and format fit, with no dated meta 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 exists in YGOVN; going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied side deck is empty, so post-side performance cannot be assessed