Phantom Knights Deck #757186 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 46/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck bosses (Idaten, Transcendosaurus, The Dark Magicians, Worldsea Dragon Zealantis, Numeron) after a Normal Summon chain of 3-copy Warriors; Numeron C1000 / iC1000 board wipe followed by a Link or Xyz finisher
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a 3-copy starter (Marauding Captain, Goblindbergh, Armageddon Knight, Sublimation Knight, Neo Space Connector) and chain Level 4 or lower Warriors from hand, then reach a boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Rely on boss monsters and Numeron/Zealantis board-clearing effects, since the deck has no hand traps to interrupt the opponent's setup
• Recovery: Recover through GY-activated searches: The Phantom Knights of Silent Boots (banish from GY) and The Phantom Knights of Ancient Cloak, plus Tailwind of Gusto and Battlin' Boxer Uppercutter
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel decks carry no side deck (side_count 0)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Normal Summon starter: the six 3-copy Warrior starters give roughly an 84% chance (Inferred, hypergeometric estimate) of at least one in a 5-card opening hand. Its conversion ceiling comes from the Extra Deck bosses (Idaten, Transcendosaurus, The Dark Magicians, Zealantis, Numeron), which lifts the closing-power score. The deck is weak as a system: only 1 of 25 usage-stat core cards is present (4%), there are only 3 exact-name Phantom Knights cards, and the 46 distinct main cards span about 25 archetype labels, so the engine is not cohesive. It has zero hand traps and no floodgate, so interruption resilience and going-second board-breaking are low. Popularity of the archetype did not earn points, and the score was not produced by averaging card scores. No combos were supplied, so floor, median and ceiling rest on text-only inference.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: archetype purity / engine coherence (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(49.4) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + ContextModifiers(-3) = 45.5, rounded to 46 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.84 · 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

• Strong Extra Deck boss density with direct and piercing damage text
• Reliable Normal Summon starters (6 cards at 3 copies)
• Multiple GY-based recovery and search effects
• Legal, correctly sized list with a single Limited card run at 1 copy

Weaknesses

• Core Phantom Knights engine absent: Doomed Soleret, Rusty Bardiche, Decayed Cloak, Ragged Gloves and others from the usage core are missing
• No hand traps or floodgates; weak going-second interaction
• Low archetype coherence: 4% exact-name purity across 25 archetype labels
• Many conditional cards that become dead draws outside their sub-archetype

Critical choke points

• The Normal Summon starter package (6 cards at 3 copies) must be drawn to open the Warrior chain
• The boss monsters depend on a small number of Extra Deck pieces, mainly the two Numeron and Zealantis

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal size (60 main, 15 extra, 0 side) and copy limits; Mudora run at 1 copy under its Limited status; Card text for the Extra Deck bosses and GY recovery effects; Usage-stat core list: 1 of 25 present (4%)
• Inferred: Starter access estimate (~0.84 for 5-card hand); Consistency, brick, interaction and recovery reads; Going-first and going-second splits
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Side-deck score (no side deck in Master Duel)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Master Duel has no side deck, so post-side dimensions are not measurable Deck title is null