Phantom Knights Deck #764813 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz/Link boss (Dark Requiem, Arc Rebellion, Dark Rebellion Four Heavenly, Ophion, Break Sword) reached through the Phantom Knights graveyard-recursion engine; Rank-Up-Magic Requiem / Force special summons of a Rank 4 or 5 boss from the Extra Deck
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a 3-copy Level-3 Phantom Knights starter (Silent Boots, Doomed Soleret, Decayed Cloak), search a Phantom Knights Spell/Trap or Rank-Up-Magic, and bridge into a boss Xyz
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Forbidden Droplet or Dominus Impulse to stop the opponent's opener, then rebuild from the graveyard
• Recovery: Use graveyard and banish effects (Silent Boots, Ancient Cloak, Decayed Cloak, Raider's Wing) to re-summon Phantom Knights monsters and keep Xyz materials
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel decks have no side deck (0 side cards run); the only adaptation is in-game hand decisions

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably: with several 3-copy Phantom Knights starters and GY-recursive openers, the archetype-core group gives about 0.998 odds of at least one core card in an opening hand of 5 (Inferred), and several starters give independent lines. Interaction is layered across both turns (7 hand traps plus Phantom Knights' Fog Blade, Umbrage Veil, Dominus Impulse and Forbidden Droplet), which drives the going-second and end-board scores. The Extra Deck supplies a high ceiling of 2500-3000 ATK Xyz and Link bosses, but there are no recorded boards, so floor and median are inferred from card text and not measured. Off-archetype splash (30 of 57 copies outside the exact archetype name) and conditional cards cap consistency and pilotability. Popularity and usage presence earned no points, card scores were not averaged, and Meta Power stays provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo profile used as-is; Midrange noted as secondary, not blended; D13 dropped and weights renormalized over 97 (meta-neutral structural). Structural ≈ 69, Going First ≈ 72, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: off-archetype splash and engine dilution (-3); banlist exposure (-1); no side plan (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (no dated meta sample; Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · 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

• Starter density: 3-copy Level-3 Phantom Knights monsters (Silent Boots, Doomed Soleret, Decayed Cloak) plus 2-copy Ancient Cloak and Torn Scales give several independent graveyard-recursive openers
• Interaction layering: 7 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C) plus Fog Blade, Umbrage Veil, Dominus Impulse and Forbidden Droplet cover both turns
• Extra Deck boss ceiling: Dark Requiem and Arc Rebellion at 3000 ATK, Ophion at 2550, Dark Rebellion and Four Heavenly at 2500, Break Sword as a board breaker
• Full 15-card Extra Deck with Rank 3 and Rank 4 Xyz routes that give redundancy

Weaknesses

• Exact-name archetype purity is 47.4%, with 30 off-archetype copies from several other archetypes diluting the engine
• Conditional cards (Forbidden Droplet discard cost, Dominus Impulse needing an opposing card, Mulcharmy needing an empty field) can brick or dead-draw
• No recorded boards, so the floor and median are not measured; D3 and D4 rest on card-text reads
• Limited and Semi-Limited staples (Maxx C, Foolish Burial, Reinforcement, Droll) cap how many interruptions the deck can hold

Critical choke points

• Rank-Up-Magic Requiem and Force (1 copy each) are the boss-route enablers; drawing neither slows the Extra Deck conversion
• Maxx C and Droll & Lock Bird are the only Limited or Semi-Limited hand traps that stop an opener on the draw; Maxx C is capped at 1 copy

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 42 main (range 40-60), 15 extra (range 0-15), 0 side; no violations; All 5 restricted cards within their legal copy limits (Limited x4 at 1 copy; Semi-Limited Droll & Lock Bird at 2); Copy histogram and Extra Deck breakdown (11 Xyz, 4 Link) reconcile with the card list
• Inferred: Archetype-core group P(at least one in opening 5) ≈ 0.998 (hypergeometric, 28-copy proxy); 3-copy starter P(at least one in opening 5) = 0.323; 2-copy = 0.227 (hypergeometric, verified arithmetic); Hand-trap group P(at least one in hand 6, going second) = 0.691; searcher group P(at least one in hand 5) = 0.721; Semantic reads of negation and removal from card text, including the boss-ceiling reading
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit (no dated metagame or tournament data); Side-deck adaptability in Master Duel (no side deck exists)
• 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): those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck is false for about 11 Extra Deck cards that are present in the cards list (for example Dark Requiem 1621413, Arc Rebellion 64276752, Four Heavenly 90091224, Rusty Bardiche 26692769); core_present_pct of 56% is therefore understated and was not relied on no side deck exists in Master Duel, so post-side adaptability cannot be measured