Phantom Knights Deck #757188 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 31/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck closers: Dragon that Devours the Dogma (via Fallen of Albaz), Idaten, Cyberse Clock Dragon, Eldlich, Zealantis; no single engine carries the board; Link pressure (Singularity 3500, Saryuja x2, Selene) once a Link base exists
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter from the 10 searcher-text cards (about 61% to hit at least one in hand of 5) and go to a Fusion, Link or Phantom Knights line; no archetype-standard T1 exists in this list
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand to set up a single board-breaker or Extra Deck closer; there is no hand trap or hand-held interaction to slow the opponent
• Recovery: Recur from GY via Phantom Knights of Silent Boots and Ancient Cloak, Eldlich (GY to hand), and Idaten or Jar of Avarice for card flow
• After siding: None: the Side Deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The list reliably opens something, but it does not reliably open one plan: it runs about 1 of the 25 archetype-core cards (4%), and its 72 off-archetype copies span roughly 20 sub-archetypes (HERO, Albaz, Igknight, Blackwing, Amazoness, Endymion, Eldlich and others), most at one copy each. Each route to a board therefore depends on a single starter, and the list has no hand traps, so it has little answer to disruption. Its conversion ceiling is real (Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Idaten, Clock Dragon and Eldlich close games), and recursion from the GY gives it some grind. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction read on the system as a whole; it was not averaged from the card scores, and the archetype's popularity earned no points because the list does not run the archetype's standard core. No combo boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference at low confidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 41, Going First ≈ 37, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Engine conflicts / scatter (-6); No side deck (-3); Single-copy starter dependence (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (no reliable metagame; Meta provisional). 0.80*41 + 0.20*35 = 39.8; modifiers -9 gives 30.8, rounded to 31

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• Deep Extra Deck with several high-ATK closers (Singularity 3500, Dragon that Devours 3000, Idaten 3000)
• Several GY recursion pieces (Silent Boots, Ancient Cloak, Eldlich) that help recover after a clean interruption
• Legal in Master Duel with no restricted cards and a full 60/15 build

Weaknesses

• Only 1 of 25 archetype-core cards (4%); the build is closer to a toolbox than to the archetype
• No hand traps and very few negates for interaction
• Many cards need support the list does not run (Aleister, Igknight Reload, Lilith, Butterspy)
• No Side Deck

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) is the only route to Dragon that Devours the Dogma
• Phantom Knights of Silent Boots (1 copy) is the only Phantom Knights starter that recurs from GY in this list
• Searcher density (10) is high but each searcher pulls a different engine, so no single line is reliable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal: 60 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side against master-duel size rules [0,15] extra and [40,60] main; No restricted cards: every card is Unlimited with 0 over-limit copies; Core Phantom Knights presence is 1 of 25 usage-stat core cards (4%); No hand traps (hand_trap_group 0); Searcher-text group size 10, removal-text 11, negation-text 2; Extra Deck composition: 8 Link, 6 Fusion, 1 Xyz
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and brick estimates (1-copy 0.083, 3-copy 0.233, searcher group 0.61); Ceiling and median are text-only inference; no recorded boards; Engine scatter and brick rate read from composition and card text; Interaction quality from text (Double Hooking, King Tiger Wanghu, negate text)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null): no dated metagame sample; D13 matchup and format fit: no tournament data
• Data gaps: No combo boards: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot records absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Side Deck is empty (0 cards); it may be an export gap or a real build choice, so D12 is low confidence Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied