Phantom Beast (Chimera) Deck #764465 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 18 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Ritual boards built from Hecahands, Chimera, and Light and Darkness Ritual bosses (Hecahands Xeno, Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Chimera the Illusion Beast) backed by Hecahands Dandalos control-steal (Inferred from card text).; Diabell and Sinful Spoils recursion lines (Filia Diabell, Curse of Diabell, Diabellze the White Witch) converting into destruction and board wipes (Inferred).
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening searchers (Gazelle, Hecahands Yadel, Hecahands Mankibuel, Chimera Fusion) fetch a Hecahands or Chimera starter into a Fusion Summon; no combo data supports a specific line (Inferred).
• Turn 2 (going second): Hecahands and Diabell defensive effects plus Yad'al/Ib'al-Hecahands and Breakthrough Skill to answer the opponent's board; no recorded boards to confirm (Inferred).
• Recovery: Searchers (Mind Shuffle, Diabellze, Skull Archfiend of Chaos) and GY recursion from Light and Darkness Ritual and Sinful Spoils to rebuild after an answered starter (Inferred).
• After siding: Not applicable: side count is 0, so the deck has no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in OCG as built: the Extra Deck holds 18 cards against a limit of 15, Hecahands Jauzah runs 5 copies against a limit of 3, and Aerial Eater is Forbidden, so the score is a theoretical, structural-only read capped at 25. The deck's reliable opening is the searcher package: P(at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card hand) is about 0.85 and P(at least one archetype-core card) is about 0.67, which supports D1 at 55 (Inferred). The deck is a mix of at least four engines (Hecahands, Chimera, Diabell, Light and Darkness Ritual) with only 24 singleton cards and 70 off-exact-archetype copies, so it bricks and conflicts often, which keeps D2, D10 and D11 low. Its strongest closing bodies (Hecahands Xeno, Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier) and removal text earn D7 and D9, but there are no recorded boards, no side deck and no tournament data, so the floor, median and ceiling cannot be separated from evidence. Popularity was not credited, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 44, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-4); copy_limit_violation (-3); extra_deck_overflow (-3); no_side_plan (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(44) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 43.2; modifiers total -12 gives 31.2; capped at 25 because legality status is Illegal (theoretical-only, structural read).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.27 · 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

• Searcher density (16 searcher-text cards) gives high starter access; archetype-core group P(at least one) about 0.67 (Inferred).
• Several 3000+ ATK closing bodies (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Hecahands Xeno, Chimera the Illusion Beast) (Verified stats).
• Removal and negation text across Spells, Traps and monsters gives interaction breadth (Inferred from text).

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Extra Deck overflow, copy-limit violation on Hecahands Jauzah, and a Forbidden Fusion (Verified).
• Four or more engines (Hecahands, Chimera, Diabell, Light and Darkness Ritual) with 24 singletons create brick and conflict risk (Inferred).
• No side deck and no recorded boards, so no adaptability or combo evidence (Verified gaps).

Critical choke points

• Chimera Fusion and Hecahands searchers are the only paths into the Fusion starters; losing them to one interruption leaves few alternate lines (Inferred).
• Extra Deck legality itself: the list cannot be played in OCG until it is brought to 15 Extra cards and 3 copies of Jauzah (Verified).

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 52 and Extra 18; Extra exceeds 15 cap (legality); Hecahands Jauzah 5 copies vs legal 3 (legality); Aerial Eater Forbidden in OCG (banlist status); Side count 0 (composition); Card stats for Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Hecahands Xeno and Chimera the Illusion Beast (card data)
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.67 for archetype core and 0.85 for searcher group (hypergeometric); Brick and engine-conflict risk from 24 singletons across four engines; Toolbox primary strategy from the mixed engine composition; Closing and interaction read from card text
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (D13), no dated meta sample; Tournament reliability, based on the structural read
• 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 and going-second splits, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional: no dated metagame sample side deck is empty, so post-side adaptability cannot be scored