Phantom Knights Deck #754659 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 36/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Arcana Force XXI - The World, Arcana Force XIX - The Sun, Eldlich the Golden Lord, Earthbound Servant Geo Kraken, Saryuja Skull Dread) reached through searcher-driven Normal Summon and Link lines; Link and Fusion follow-up from Earthbound, Elemental HERO and Magician material chains
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a searcher or extender (Cyber Petit Angel, Kaitoptera, Time Wizard, Marauding Captain) and search toward one of the 3-copy starters, then extend into a Link or Fusion boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-trap-free, so going second relies on Time Wizard or Magical Mallet to reset the board, then a Phantom Knights or Earthbound search into a Link or Fusion boss; no reliable disruption in hand
• Recovery: Recover through Phantom Knights of Ancient Cloak and Silent Boots GY effects, Summoner Monk and Cyber Petit Angel searches, and Machine Angel Ritual; recovery exists but has no recursive engine
• After siding: No side deck is used in Master Duel, so there is no post-side plan; adaptation is limited to the main-deck searchers and Extra Deck choice

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reasonably often because 18 searcher-text cards give about 84% odds of at least one search in a 5-card opening hand, so the first Normal Summon is usually reachable. Conversion is weak: the list runs only 3 of its 25 usage-core cards, misses the archetype engine (Phantom Knights' Rank-Up-Magic Requiem, Doomed Soleret, Decayed Cloak), and has no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only estimates. Interaction is thin, with 14 removal-text cards, 2 negation-text cards and zero hand traps or floodgates, so the deck has little answer to an established board or to going second. Its Extra Deck bosses give real closing power, but the 72 off-archetype copies and mixed Earthbound, Elemental HERO, Magician and Noble Knight bodies lower coherence. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype's presence in the usage statistics confirms the name is real, not that this list is strong, and the score was computed from the system rather than averaged from card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox (D13 dropped and renormalized, meta-neutral). Structural ≈ 38.7, Going First ≈ 38, Going Second ≈ 33, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 38.7 gives 30.96 + 7.0 = 37.96, then -2 modifier, rounded to 36

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.23 · 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 no copy-limit violations (Reinforcement of the Army at 1 copy is within its Limited cap)
• High searcher density (18 search-text cards) keeps the first Normal Summon reachable
• Extra Deck bosses with high ATK (2500 to 3100) give real closing power

Weaknesses

• Only 3 of 25 usage-core cards are present, so the archetype engine (Rank-Up-Magic Requiem, Doomed Soleret) is missing
• Zero hand traps and floodgates leave little answer to an established board or to going second
• Wide spread across 24 archetype names with 4% exact-name purity dilutes engine coherence

Critical choke points

• The 3-copy starters have only about 23% odds of appearing in the opening 5 cards, so the first turn often rests on searchers alone
• No recorded boards exist, so the combo route through the Extra Deck boss is untested

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 60 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, all cards Unlimited except Reinforcement of the Army (Limited, 1 copy); Card text and stats for every listed card; Usage statistics: 3 of 25 core cards present; Extra Deck bosses ATK values (2500 to 3100)
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities (hypergeometric, 0.23 for 3-copy core, 0.84 for searcher text); Structural and going-first/second scores derived from text reads; Brick and interruption-resilience estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament link or meta share)
• 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 absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null in the export