Phantom Knights Deck #762790 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Graveyard-recursive Xyz chain (Doomed Soleret, Decayed Cloak, Silent Boots, Rank-Up-Magic Requiem/Force) that lands a 2500-3000 ATK Xyz boss such as Four Heavenly Dragons, Arc Rebellion or Dark Requiem; Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon and Evilswarm Ophion negation and removal lines that convert a won exchange into a single-card board
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher or Soleret/Silent Boots starter, reach a Rank-Up or Xyz summon on T1-T2, and hold Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence for the first disruption
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash, Infinite Impermanence, Dominus Impulse, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C) to answer the opponent's board, then rebuild through the Graveyard
• Recovery: Banish a Phantom Knights monster from the Graveyard to re-summon it, or search through Ancient Cloak and Silent Boots to rebuild a Xyz boss
• After siding: No side deck is listed (side 0), so there is no evidenced post-side plan; the deck relies on its main-deck hand traps for every matchup

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: the archetype core is present in about 99% of opening 5-card hands (hypergeometric, Inferred), and the 9 searcher-text cards give about a 74% chance of at least one searcher in hand on the play. Its Graveyard recursion (Soleret, Decayed Cloak, Silent Boots, Rank-Up-Magic Requiem and Force) lets a disrupted board rebuild, which is the main reason the resilience and grind scores are high. Interaction is layered through 9 hand traps and 6 removal or negation traps, and the going-second hand-trap probability is about 81% (Inferred), so the going-second and endboard scores are earned by the system, not by any single card. The ceiling is credited from the text of the Xyz bosses, since no recorded boards exist, and the median is held down because the floor depends on weaker starters and bricks. Popularity did not earn points: the usage statistics were used only to confirm the archetype core, and the 15-card Extra Deck was not averaged card by card. The score is also reduced for the lack of a side deck, four Limited or Semi-Limited restrictions, and off-archetype Extra Deck picks that conflict with the Phantom Knights engine.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 65.4, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 72, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine conflicts and off-archetype Extra Deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-4)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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

• Graveyard recursion keeps the engine alive after disruption
• Nine hand traps and layered removal or negation
• Strong Xyz boss pool (2500-3000 ATK) reachable from the Extra Deck
• Archetype core is nearly always present in the opening hand

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Four restricted cards and off-archetype Extra Deck picks dilute the engine
• Complex Graveyard chains reduce pilotability
• Floor depends on bricks and weaker tech cards

Critical choke points

• Dependence on a Graveyard Phantom Knights monster to start the recursion loop
• Only 9 searchers, so a missed searcher in hand reduces consistency

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal size 40/15/0 with four restricted cards within their limits; Card stats and text for all 40 Main and 15 Extra Deck cards; Archetype purity 50.9%
• Inferred: Core availability 0.9934 and searcher availability 0.7418 in 5 cards; Hand trap 0.8082 in 6 cards going second; Interaction and resilience reads from card text
• Provisional: Median output, since no recorded boards exist; Matchup and format fit, since no dated meta sample exists; Post-side plan
• 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 exists in YGOVN: going-first, going-second and matchup rates are Inferred or Unknown usage_statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with the cards array: Rusty Bardiche, Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon (16195942 and 90091224), Dark Requiem, Arc Rebellion, Cherubini, Raider's Knight, S:P Little Knight, Malevolent Scythe and Ophion are present in cards but marked in_this_deck:false, so core_present_pct 52 is unreliable; scoring used the cards array Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied