Phantom Knights Deck #765086 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz and Link boss pressure from the Extra Deck (Dark Rebellion Four Heavenly Dragons, Arc Rebellion, Rusty Bardiche) after recursing Phantom Knights monsters from the Graveyard; Attrition through negates, Xyz material recursion and Rank-Up-Magic follow-ups
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Phantom Knights starter (Torn Scales, Silent Boots, Doomed Soleret or Decayed Cloak), use its search or summon effect to reach a second Phantom Knights body, then Xyz or Link into a boss while holding Ash Blossom for the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to answer the opponent's first summon with Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence or Dominus Impulse, then rebuild the board from the Graveyard through the same starter loop
• Recovery: Banish Phantom Knights monsters from the Graveyard to re-summon them and to Rank-Up-Magic into a higher boss; Silent Boots and Decayed Cloak can search again from the Graveyard
• After siding: Not applicable in Master Duel, which has no sideboard; the deck runs an empty Side Deck, so adaptation is limited to in-game sequencing

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Phantom Knights starter, since the 28-copy archetype core has a hypergeometric opening-hand presence of about 99.9% (Inferred), and seven distinct starters run three copies each. Its conversion ceiling comes from Graveyard recursion into Rank-Up-Magic and Xyz or Link bosses, which rates well but is text-inferred because the deck has no recorded boards. Interaction is the strongest system trait: eight hand traps, eleven negation-text cards and a full set of trap and spell removal support the deck through a single disruption, which is why Stun is the secondary read. The score is held back by a 40-card main that is only about 51% exact-archetype, with 27 off-archetype copies (Dominus, Mulcharmy, Raidraptor, Burning Abyss and Lswarm pieces), and by a 0-card side deck that gives no post-side plan. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage stats confirm a real, accessible list but are not counted as strength, and the score comes from consistency, interaction and ceiling on the system, not from averaging the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 69, Going First ≈ 73, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; D13 dropped and weights re-normalised to 97): 0.80*69.2 + 0.20*60 - 3 = 64.3

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Seven distinct 3-copy starters give redundant openings
• Eleven negation-text cards and eight hand traps provide layered interaction
• Graveyard recursion and Rank-Up-Magic give rebuild after disruption
• Boss ATK of 2500 to 3000 with full 15-card Extra Deck coverage

Weaknesses

• Only about 51% exact-archetype purity; 27 off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• Eight hand traps and two Droll copies can be dead when the opponent takes no action
• No sideboard, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference

Critical choke points

• Phantom Knights starter access when the opening hand holds only off-archetype cards
• Going-first turn one, where Ash Blossom and Droll are unusable without an opponent action

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal 40/15/0 list with all Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts within limits; Copy histogram sums to 40 main and 15 extra; Card stats and text as supplied; Archetype core of 28 copies and exact purity of 50.9%
• Observed: Usage statistics show the archetype-standard core at 90% or higher inclusion for several Phantom Knights cards
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter presence of about 99.9% from the hypergeometric proxy; Ceiling and median from card text, since no boards were recorded; Going-first and going-second scores and Structural weights
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (D13) is neutral and dropped from the structural score; Meta power is null because no dated metagame sample exists
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied The usage_statistics in_this_deck and missing_core fields contradict the cards array: Dark Rebellion Four Heavenly, Arc Rebellion, Rusty Bardiche, Dark Requiem, Raider's Knight, Shamanite Shamanknight, Cherubini, S:P Little Knight, Evilswarm Ophion and Malevolent Scythe are flagged not in deck but appear in the Extra Deck list, so the core-coverage read was not used