Phantom Knights Deck #751920 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Xyz/Link, Graveyard-centric
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz and Link boards (Orcustrion 3000 ATK, Arc Rebellion Xyz Dragon, Enlilgirsu control steal) reached through Phantom Knights graveyard-trigger chains; Break Sword and Dingirsu Xyz pressure, with Galatea-I and Longirsu supporting the Orcust Link route
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Phantom Knights starter (Torn Scales, Silent Boots, Ancient Cloak) or Girsu as the Orcust bridge, search or recurse through graveyard triggers, then Link or Xyz Summon into a boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Negate with Fog Blade and Orcust Crescendo, use Fantastical Dragon Phantazmay against Link summons, then rebuild through graveyard triggers; the deck has no hand traps, so this is the weaker side
• Recovery: Searchers (Silent Boots, Ancient Cloak, Cloven Helm, Galatea-I, Mist Claws) and graveyard recursion (Orcustrated Babel, Cymbal Skeleton, Harp Horror, Brass Bombard)
• After siding: No side deck is run (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Phantom Knights or Orcust starter: the archetype core group has a 0.82 chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and 14 searcher-text cards give about a 0.90 chance of at least one searcher. It converts those starters through graveyard-trigger chains into Xyz and Link bosses, and its graveyard recursion (Orcustrated Babel, Cymbal Skeleton, Cloven Helm) keeps the chain going after one interruption. Interaction is layered mainly through three Fog Blades and several negate-text boss monsters, but there are no hand traps, so going second is the weak side. The score does not come from the popularity of the archetype, from the usage statistics, or from averaging individual card scores; the list also runs only about 42% exact-name Phantom Knights cards and 5 of 25 archetype-core staples as recorded in usage, so its consistency is built on a mixed Phantom Knights, Orcust and World Legacy system.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 49, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Off-archetype dilution and engine conflict (-2); No side deck (-1); No hand traps (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · 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

• Large searcher count (14) and archetype core access (0.82) support a consistent opening
• Graveyard-recursion starters give multiple routes after disruption
• Xyz and Link bosses with 2600-3000 ATK and negate or control-steal text provide a strong closing and interaction package

Weaknesses

• No hand traps, so going second is weak
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Heavy off-archetype spread (exact-name purity 41.8%) dilutes the Phantom Knights engine
• Usage data shows 5 of 25 archetype-core staples present, with Ash Blossom, Maxx C and Rank-Up-Magic Requiem absent

Critical choke points

• Graveyard-trigger starters (Silent Boots, Ancient Cloak, Torn Scales) must be live early; a stripped or removed graveyard stalls the chain
• Orcust Link bridge (Girsu and Galatea-I) for the Orcustrion route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal main 40 / extra 15 / side 0 within Master Duel size rules; Both restricted cards (Foolish Burial, Reinforcement of the Army) run at 1 copy, equal to their Limited cap; Exact-name purity 41.8% and archetype spread from composition; Usage: 5 of 25 core staples reported present, core inclusion percentages
• Observed: No recorded boards or combo samples exist, so no observed combo frequencies
• Inferred: Starter access 0.82 and searcher access 0.90 from the hypergeometric estimate; Ceiling read of Orcustrion, Arc Rebellion, Break Sword and Dingirsu from card text; Interaction density from negation and removal text (regex-based, over-counted); Going-second weakness from zero hand traps; Structural and final scores from the rubric
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13 placeholder); Side deck adaptability (no post-side data)
• 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, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck appears to exclude Extra Deck cards (Rusty Bardiche, Raider's Knight, Arc Rebellion, Dark Rebellion present in the extra list but marked false), which may understate core presence deck title is null, so the archetype label is the only name