Phantasm Spiral Deck #757629 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 27/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Control
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Not established by recorded boards (none exist). Inferred: Phantasm Spiral / Primite Normal-monster boards pressured by Extra Deck Synchro and Link monsters.; Extra Deck pressure: Draco Berserker, Tenyi Spirit - Mula Adhara, Transcendosaurus Glaciasaurus, Blue-Eyes Alternative Ultimate Dragon, Link Spider.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a monster (Primite Dragon Ether Beryl, Phantasm Spiral Dragon, Megalosmasher X, or Angel Trumpeter), search with Pacifis / Primite Lordly Lode, and hold Infinite Impermanence or Songs of the Dominators for the opponent's first activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Set interaction (Dominus Purge, Dominus Impulse, Songs of the Dominators, Infinite Impermanence) and hope the six-card hand contains a monster to convert it.
• Recovery: Pot of Extravagance and Heat Wave refill the hand; Fish Sonar and Primite Drillbeam add search or negation. Recovery depends on drawing a monster first.
• After siding: No side deck (0 cards). No post-side plan is available.

Why it scores here

The deck does not reliably open a live engine: only 6 of 40 Main Deck cards are monsters, so P(at least one monster in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.58 and about 0.65 in a 6-card hand (Inferred). Only 3 Normal-frame monsters are present, while several Phantasm Spiral traps require every monster you control to be a Normal Monster, which conflicts with the rest of the list. Interaction is dense (16 negation-text and 16 removal-text cards) and draw/search support is good (14 searcher-text cards), which lifts the resilience and resource dimensions. There are no recorded boards, so ceiling and median are text-only inference. The list is over the copy limit for Dominus Impulse, so this is a structural-only read capped low rather than a normal contextual score. Archetype popularity and usage stats were not used to earn points: none of the 11 core usage cards are present (0 of 11). The score was derived from the system's consistency, engine conflicts and interaction, not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 41, Going First ≈ 35, Going Second ≈ 33, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: Illegal: copy-limit violation (-10); Engine conflict: all-Normal condition vs monster count (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 0.80*41 + 0.20*30 = 38.8; Illegal list: copy-limit cap -10 and engine-conflict -2 → 26.8, rounded 27

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.58 · 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

• Layered interaction suite: 16 negation-text and 16 removal-text cards across traps and spells
• Searchers: 14 copies, P(≥1 searcher in opening 5) ≈ 0.90, giving the list reach
• Pot of Extravagance and Heat Wave provide card flow and a Summon-lock reset

Weaknesses

• Only 6 monsters in the Main Deck, causing a high brick rate
• Only 3 Normal-frame monsters while the trap engine requires an all-Normal board
• Illegal list: Dominus Impulse at 3 copies against a limit of 2
• No recorded boards, no side deck, and 0 of 11 usage-stat core cards present

Critical choke points

• A hand with no monster cannot start the Phantasm Spiral or Primite line; this is about a 42% risk in the opening 5 (Inferred).
• Dominus Impulse copy count is over the legal limit; the list cannot be played as built.
• The all-Normal condition on the Phantasm Spiral traps cannot be met reliably with 3 Normal-frame monsters.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Dominus Impulse at 3 copies vs a legal limit of 2 (Semi-Limited); Deck composition: 40 Main (6 monsters, 14 spells, 20 traps), 15 Extra (Fusion 4, Synchro 5, Xyz 2, Link 4); Usage stats: 0 of 11 core cards present; no side deck; no tournament link
• Inferred: P(≥1 monster in opening 5) ≈ 0.58 and in 6 ≈ 0.65 (hypergeometric); Brick rate is high because most of the 34 non-monster slots need a monster or a Normal-only board; Interaction density (16 negation, 16 removal) is strong on paper but conditional in practice
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample supplied
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: ceiling, median and board-per-starter are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed