Burning Abyss Deck #755486 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Phantom Knights Xyz and Link boards (Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon, Rusty Bardiche, Raider's Knight, Break Sword) built through GY-banish recursion and Rank-Up-Magic, closed by 2000 to 3000 ATK bosses.; Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS and Arc Rebellion / Dark Requiem Xyz Dragon as high-ATK finishers once an Xyz Monster has battled.
• Turn 1 (going first): Hand-start a Phantom Knights monster (Doomed Soleret, Silent Boots or Decayed Cloak, 9 copies combined) or search with Reinforcement / Foolish Burial, then use Phantom Knights effects to reach an Xyz or Link for a board.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird or Dominus Impulse for the opponent's first summon or search, then recover through hand-start monsters and banish-cost GY effects.
• Recovery: Banish Phantom Knights monsters and Torn Scales from the GY to re-summon or re-search, and use Xyz detach effects to rebuild after interruption (Inferred from card text, no recorded boards).
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck runs no Side Deck cards and there is no post-side performance data.

Why it scores here

The deck is a Phantom Knights Xyz and Link shell, though its archetype label reads Burning Abyss (only one Burning Abyss card, and exact-name purity is 1.8%). Nine copies of three hand-start Phantom Knights monsters give about a 74% chance of at least one in a going-first opening hand (Inferred hypergeometric estimate), which supports a reasonable T1 engine. Interaction is dense: 25 removal-text and 10 negation-text cards, plus four hand traps, which lifts endboard quality and going-second resistance. The Extra Deck carries several 2000 to 3000 ATK finishers, so closing power is high once a board is established. No recorded boards, combo evidence, tournament data or guides exist, so the combo floor, median and matchup scores are text-based inferences with low weight. The score comes from consistency, recursion, interaction and closing power on the system, not from the archetype label or from averaging card scores. The empty side deck and the off-engine inclusions (Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Forbidden Droplet) pull the score down.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(60.4) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(55) + ContextModifiers(-2) = 57 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.74 · 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

• Multiple hand-start Phantom Knights monsters (9 copies) with two searchers give a reliable opening.
• Dense negation and removal text plus four hand traps.
• Extra Deck finishers reach 2000 to 3000 ATK.

Weaknesses

• Zero side deck cards leave no post-side adaptation.
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median are unmeasured.
• Off-archetype inclusions (Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Forbidden Droplet) dilute the engine.

Critical choke points

• Early hand-start summons depend on having a Phantom Knights monster in hand or a searcher; a hand without either stalls the turn.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; all Limited and Semi-Limited copies within limit.; Card text and stats for all 37 distinct cards as supplied.; Usage statistics show the core Phantom Knights cards are present.
• Inferred: P(>=1 hand-start Phantom Knights monster in 5) ~0.74.; Engine and recursion resilience from card text.; Interaction density from text flags.
• Provisional: Matchup fit and meta share (no dated sample).; Median output (no recorded boards).
• 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. Archetype field says Burning Abyss but the cards are Phantom Knights; only one Burning Abyss card (Cherubini, Extra Deck). usage_statistics.missing_core lists Extra Deck cards that are present in the cards list (Cherubini, S:P Little Knight, Malevolent Scythe, Rusty Bardiche, Four Heavenly Dragons, Evilswarm Ophion, Arc Rebellion); the in_this_deck flags appear to ignore the Extra Deck, so core_present_pct is unreliable. Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample.