Phantasm Spiral Deck #763344 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Yubel and Unchained Link/Fusion boards pressured through Link and Fusion bosses (A Bao A Qu, Yubel - The Loving Defender Forever, Accesscode Talker); no recorded boards confirm this.; Hand-trap and negation-protected board conversion through Dark Beckoning Beast and Opening of the Spirit Gates into Yubel/Unchained bosses.
• Turn 1 (going first): Searcher-led starts (Frightfur Patchwork, Nightmare Throne, Dark Beckoning Beast) toward a Yubel or Unchained engine, keeping Ash Blossom, Solemn Judgment and Anti-Spell Fragrance up as protection.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) to break the opponent's opening, then engine conversion through Mulcharmy draw effects.
• Recovery: Recover through Yubel-family searches from Deck/GY/banish and Edge Imp Chain / Frightfur recursion; Mulcharmy draw effects refill the hand.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not an average of its cards. Searchers (17 searcher-text cards, P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.86) and the archetype core (P(at least one core card in opening hand) ≈ 0.81) give the Yubel and Unchained engine a reasonably reliable T1 start. Interaction density is high (11 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards, 16 removal-text cards), which lifts the going-second and interruption-resilience scores. Output is unmeasured: the evidence has no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median scores are text-only inference and are kept low. The deck has no Side Deck, and four Forbidden cards (Aerial Eater, D/D/D Wave High King Caesar, Triple Tactics Talent, Varudras) make it illegal in OCG, so the final score is capped low and the evaluation is structural only. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points; the usage data only confirms the core is present.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: Structural = weighted Midrange profile = 51.7 -> 52. No dated meta, so Meta is null. Pre-cap: 0.80*52 + 0.20*40 = 49.6; banlist modifier -12 -> 37.6; Illegal cap -> 30 (theoretical / structural-only).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · 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

• Dense searcher density (17 searcher-text cards) gives a high chance of a live T1 starter
• Heavy interaction suite: 11 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards, plus Solemn Judgment and Solemn Warning
• Going-second hand-trap density is strong (P ≈ 0.76)
• Extra Deck mixes Link, Fusion and Xyz bosses across two engines

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: four Forbidden cards are run, so the list cannot be played as built
• No Side Deck (0 of up to 15 slots), so there is no post-side adaptability
• Exact-archetype purity is 0%; the deck spreads across about 20 sub-archetypes, which weakens engine coherence
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Yubel engine enablers (Spirit of Yubel, Nightmare Pain, Nightmare Throne) carry the T1 plan and have no redundant path if they are dead
• Forbidden Varudras and Aerial Eater are in the Extra Deck, so removing them changes the Extra-Deck boss package

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Four Forbidden cards run at 1 copy each in OCG (Aerial Eater, D/D/D Wave High King Caesar, Triple Tactics Talent, Varudras); Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0, within OCG size rules; Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts are within limits; Copy histogram 14 singles / 10 doubles / 7 triples; 15 extra-deck cards: 9 Link, 4 Fusion, 2 Xyz
• Observed: Usage stats: 8 of 11 archetype core cards present (72.7%)
• Inferred: P(≥1 searcher in opening 5) ≈ 0.86; P(≥1 core card in 5) ≈ 0.81; P(≥1 hand trap in opening 6, going second) ≈ 0.76; Interaction density and resilience read from card text (negate, removal, hand traps); Engine-coherence read across sub-archetypes
• Provisional: Meta Power (null): no dated metagame sample; Format fit (D13 = 40): no tournament or archetype meta-share data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck, so no post-side evidence