Phantom Knights Deck #764670 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Phantom Knights Xyz/Link boards built from hand-to-field engine summons (Torn Scales, Silent Boots, Decayed Cloak, Doomed Soleret) and Rank-Up-Magic chains into Break Sword, Malevolent Scythe and Rusty Bardiche; Negate-protected Xyz boards with Arc Rebellion Xyz Dragon, Evilswarm Ophion and Raider's Knight once the engine is online
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Phantom Knights hand-to-field summons, search a Phantom Knights monster or Rank-Up-Magic, and land a Level 3 Xyz board; keep Ash Blossom, Droll and Infinite Impermanence up as interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Evenly Matched, Droll, Infinite Impermanence) and Solemn-family counters to stop the opponent's board, then rebuild through the same engine
• Recovery: Recover through GY banish effects (Doomed Soleret, Decayed Cloak, Silent Boots search) and Rank-Up-Magic Requiem / Force to re-enter Xyz monsters
• After siding: No side deck is submitted, so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The score is built on the system, not on card averages: the 28 exact-name Phantom Knights cards and the 3-copy Torn Scales, Silent Boots, Decayed Cloak and Doomed Soleret set give the hypergeometric estimate of roughly 0.94 for at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, which earns the consistency points (Inferred). The Extra Deck (Break Sword, Malevolent Scythe, Rusty Bardiche, Arc Rebellion, Ophion) and the three Rank-Up-Magics form a coherent Xyz/Link route, and the 22 negation-text cards plus Solemn-family counters give layered interaction (Inferred from card text). The deck does not reach a legal evaluation: it runs five copies over OCG limits, two of them Forbidden, and has no side deck, so the Final score is capped at 30 under the Illegal rule. No combo boards or tournament data exist, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only estimates and Meta Power is null. Popularity of the archetype did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); no_side_deck (-4); illegal_cap (-14). Final formula: Illegal-deck cap: 0.80*Structural(57) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) = 55.2, modifiers -12 applied, then capped at 30 (theoretical/structural only; Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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

• Coherent Phantom Knights hand-to-field engine with 3-copy engine monsters
• Layered negation and hand-trap interaction with 22 negation-text cards
• Full 15-card Extra Deck with Xyz/Link coverage and multiple board routes
• Recursion through GY banish effects

Weaknesses

• Five copy-limit violations, two Forbidden cards in the Main Deck
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Low archetype purity (38.9%) with 23 generic and 22 tech slots
• No combo or tournament data to confirm the deck works in practice

Critical choke points

• Phantom Knights engine starter (Torn Scales/Silent Boots/Decayed Cloak/Doomed Soleret) being negated before the Xyz route is set up
• Rank-Up-Magic chain depends on a single Launch/Requiem/Force card being in hand

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 57, Extra 15, Side 0 counts from the export; Five copy-limit violations and two Forbidden cards from the OCG ban list; Extra Deck composition 9 Xyz and 6 Link; Archetype purity 28 of 72 exact-name copies
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter availability of approx 0.94 for the core group; Consistency, brick and interaction density scores from card text; Midrange primary strategy from Xyz/Link summons and negation density
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; Matchup and format fit (D13) is provisional
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: 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) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck is Illegal, so the score is structural-only and capped