Phantom Beast (Chimera) Deck #767040 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 48 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon boss monsters (Chimera the Illusion Beast, Guardian Chimera, Chimera the King, Berfomet, Chaos Angel) off Chimera Fusion and searcher-driven starts; Ritual boss monsters (Black Luster Soldier, Magician of Dark Chaos, Black Chaos) via Light and Darkness Ritual, plus Fiendsmith Extra Deck lines
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Gazelle, Nightmare Apprentice, Cornfield Coatl) that fetches Chimera Fusion, then Fusion Summon a Chimera boss from the Extra Deck
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence for the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Chimera Fusion recursion from the GY
• Recovery: Searchers and GY recursion (Chimera Fusion, Mirror Swordknight, Mulcharmy draw) rebuild the hand after a single disruption
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens searcher starts: the searcher-text group has a 95% chance of at least one hit in a 5-card opening hand, and the Chimera Fusion engine is the single starter that needs to land (about 29% going first from 3 copies). Its ceiling comes from a full Extra Deck of Chimera-family bosses (Chimera the Illusion Beast, Guardian Chimera, Chimera the King, Berfomet, Chaos Angel) that close with 3000+ ATK, and it has six hand traps for interruption. Scoring is structural: no recorded boards exist, so median and ceiling are text-based inference only, and no popularity or usage share was added to the score. The card scores were not averaged; the score reflects the system, while the illegal copy counts, the 16-card Extra Deck and the lack of a Side Deck cap it low.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 53.4, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 54, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); hard-garnet burden (-3); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: Illegal (Ash Blossom 3/2, Fiendsmith Engraver 2/1, Extra 16/15): theoretical/structural only. Uncapped: 0.80*53.4 + 0.20*40 + (-9) = 41.7; capped low at 30 per the Illegal rule.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.29 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.06 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher suite (21 searcher-text cards) gives about 95% opening access to a search
• Full Chimera-family Extra Deck bosses at 2800-3500 ATK provide high closing power
• Six hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence) cover interruption
• Extra Deck already contains all five core Chimera boss cards, despite the usage-stats flag

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Ash Blossom 3 copies (limit 2) and Fiendsmith Engraver 2 copies (limit 1)
• Extra Deck 16 cards, over the OCG limit of 15
• No Side Deck (0 cards), so no post-side plan
• Splash-heavy build (0% exact archetype purity) with conflicting engines
• No recorded boards; the combo ceiling and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Chimera Fusion is the single engine starter at 3 copies (about 29% at least one in a going-first 5-card hand)
• Fiendsmith Engraver is restricted to 1 copy and the deck runs 2
• No side deck means every matchup is played with the same main deck

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality violations: Ash Blossom 3 vs 2 legal, Fiendsmith Engraver 2 vs 1 legal, Extra 16 vs 15; Banlist statuses: Engraver and Fiendsmith's Tract Limited; Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization Semi-Limited; Composition counts: 48 main, 16 extra, 0 side; 6 hand traps; 21 searcher-text cards; Card stats: Chimera-family Extra bosses 2800-3500 ATK
• Inferred: Chimera Fusion P(>=1) about 0.29 going first; searcher group P about 0.95; Full-brick proxy about 0.06; Going-second hand-trap access about 0.57; Consistency, interaction and pilotability scores
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit, pending a dated meta sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample usage_statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with cards[] for Berfomet, Chimera the King, Guardian Chimera, Chimera the Illusion Beast and Chaos Angel (all listed in the Extra Deck), so the 58.3% core-present figure is likely an undercount; the Extra Deck core appears fully present Deck has no title (null) and no side deck