Phantom Knights Deck #766872 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Control
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 51 / Extra 19 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Phantom Knights Xyz and Link extension into Xyz Dragon / Rank-Up-Magic chains (text-inferred, no recorded boards); Horus monsters (Imsety, Hapi) revived by King's Sarcophagus for a board-breaking 3000 ATK finish (text-inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Phantom Knights searcher or Silent Boots / Doomed Soleret starter, search or summon into an Xyz, then extend with a Rank-Up-Magic or Raider's Knight (Inferred, not verified against recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre) to answer the opposing starter, then rebuild through Phantom Knights searchers (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover from the GY through Phantom Knights banish-from-GY searchers and Silent Boots / Decayed Cloak revival effects (Inferred)
• After siding: None. The deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in TCG: it runs Crossout Designator (Forbidden), three copies each of two Semi-Limited cards, and 19 Extra Deck cards against a 15-card cap, so it receives a capped, theoretical score of 20 rather than a normal contextual score. Structurally, the Phantom Knights engine has a plausible opening: the core archetype group has about an 88 percent chance of at least one card in a 5-card hand (Inferred hypergeometric), and the deck has a real hand-trap layer (Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre) that gives it some resilience on the second turn. The deck has no recorded boards, no side deck and no tournament link, so its floor, median and ceiling cannot be measured and are only text-inferred. The structural read was reached by weighing consistency, interaction and the Extra Deck on the system as a whole, not by averaging the individual card scores, and the popularity of the Phantom Knights archetype did not add points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 44, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); no side deck (-4). Final formula: Illegal: legality cap applied, so the score is theoretical only and capped at 20. The uncapped no-meta blend would be 0.80*49 + 0.20*42 = 47.6, less the modifiers (-10), but it is not reported as a score because the deck is Illegal.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.12 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Large archetype core (17 copies) gives a high chance of a starter in the opening hand
• Hand-trap layer (Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre) answers early plays
• Strong closing options at the top of the Extra Deck (Imsety 3000 ATK, Xyz Dragons)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in TCG: a Forbidden card, copy overruns, and an oversized Extra Deck
• Archetype purity is low at about 33 percent, with many off-theme cards
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan
• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Single-threaded Xyz extension through Rank-Up-Magic and Raider's Knight
• Dependence on King's Sarcophagus for the Horus revival line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality violations: Crossout Designator Forbidden, two Semi-Limited cards over the limit, Extra Deck 19 against a cap of 15; Card text and stats for the listed cards; Copy histogram and archetype purity (32.9 percent)
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency (0.88 core-group hit rate, 12 percent brick proxy); Interaction density from negation and removal text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No recorded combos, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-only No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot records are absent No Side Deck, so post-side adaptability cannot be measured No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first and going-second splits are Inferred One passcode (86120751) could not be resolved to a card and was counted as Main Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied