Phantom Knights Deck #766423 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz/Link boss (Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon, Four Heavenly Dragons, Rusty Bardiche, Arc Rebellion, Dark Requiem) reached through Phantom Knights GY-recursion and Rank-Up-Magic (Inferred from card text); Hand-trap and negation control that protects the first board and buys time for the Xyz line (Inferred from card text and role tags)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Phantom Knights starter (Silent Boots, Decayed Cloak or Doomed Soleret) plus a searcher or hand trap, then build toward a Rank-Up-Magic or Xyz boss (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird or Maxx C to disrupt the opponent's first summon, then rebuild from the GY (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recurring GY effects (Silent Boots, Decayed Cloak, Torn Scales, Stained Greaves, Ancient Cloak) restart the board after a negated starter (Inferred)
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no side deck in this export (side_count 0)

Why it scores here

This list reliably opens its engine: the archetype core group has about 99.7% odds of at least one piece in a 5-card opening hand, and the three-copy starters plus eight searcher-text cards give a roughly 69% chance of a searcher in hand. Its interaction is the strongest part of the system, with nine hand traps and thirteen negation-text cards covering both going-first and going-second turns. Recursion from the Graveyard lets the deck recover after a negated starter, which is the main reason its resilience score is above its opening-hand score. The score comes from consistency, interaction and recovery on the system as a whole, not from averaging the individual card scores. Archetype popularity and usage stats confirm the list is a real, accessible build but earned no points on their own, and the absence of recorded boards keeps the combo floor and median scores close to neutral.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 67, Going First ≈ 71, Going Second ≈ 69, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 63. Modifiers: Off-archetype dilution (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*67 + 0.20*63 - 2 = 64

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

• Core engine is almost always accessible (about 99.7% for at least one archetype piece in a 5-card hand)
• Layered interaction: nine hand traps and thirteen negation-text cards
• Multiple GY-recursion routes let the deck recover after one negation

Weaknesses

• Exact-name purity is 45.5%, with off-archetype support and two off-engine Extra Deck picks
• No side deck in Master Duel, so no post-side adaptability
• Multi-step Rank-Up and Xyz chains make pilot error likely

Critical choke points

• Early Phantom Knights starter must survive the opponent's first interaction; the hand-trap and searcher count is the backup
• Rank-Up-Magic Requiem and Force are the bridge to the boss Xyz monsters; few copies reach them without a searcher

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal in master-duel: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; restricted cards are within limits (Limited x1, Semi-Limited Droll & Lock Bird x2); Exact-name purity 45.5%; 30 off-archetype copies; Usage stats show the archetype core is present in this list
• Inferred: Engine accessibility from hypergeometric odds; Interaction and recovery read from card text; Going-second hand-trap odds ≈ 0.81
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit: no dated metagame or tournament link
• 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 Usage statistics flag Dark Requiem Xyz Dragon, Raider's Knight, Cherubini, Shamanite Shamanknight, S:P Little Knight, Evilswarm Ophion, Malevolent Scythe, Dark Rebellion (both), Four Heavenly Dragons, Arc Rebellion and Rusty Bardiche as not in deck, but the card list runs them in the Extra Deck; the in_this_deck flags look wrong for Extra Deck cards No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; Meta Power is provisional