Phantom Knights Deck #767942 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss pressure (Guardian Chimera 3300 ATK, Super Starslayer TY-PHON 2900 ATK, Elder Entity N'tss 2500 ATK) after a Mikanko or Herald board is established; Equip-recursion Mikanko summons and Link/Xyz follow-up from Uzuhime, Masquerena and Accesscode Talker
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Mikanko searcher or Diabellstar line (Ohime, Mikanko Shinbu - Noble Twins, Diviner of the Herald, Hu-Li), then extend into Link or Xyz boards; hold Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom and Maxx "C" for the opponent's draws
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C", Raigeki and Harpie's Feather Duster as interaction on the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Mikanko equip summons and Extra Deck boss monsters
• Recovery: Mikanko Fire Dance, Mikanko Water Arabesque and Mikanko Spiritwalk recur equips from the GY and banish, while Preparation of Rites and WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils rebuild the hand
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan in the supplied list

Why it scores here

This 55-card OCG list is Illegal: it runs 3 copies of Triple Tactics Talent and 1 Cross-Sheep, both Forbidden, so the score is capped low and reflects structural analysis only. The deck is not a true Phantom Knights build; it is a Mikanko, Herald, Sinful Spoils and Rites mix with 0 of the archetype's usage-core cards present, so the archetype label does not match the list. Its strongest system features are dense interaction (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C", Mind Mirror Force, Raigeki, Harpie's Feather Duster) and a large Extra Deck of boss monsters and links, with the Mikanko equip loop providing recursion. The engine is hard to reach consistently because of 17 singletons, 14 tech cards and no combo recordings, so the consistency and combo-ceiling scores are Inferred. The score was not derived by averaging card scores, popularity was not credited, and Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample is supplied.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 44, Going First ≈ 44, Going Second ≈ 47, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-10); archetype_engine_conflict (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(43.9) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 43.1; modifiers -12 gives 31.1; Illegal-status cap applied gives 25 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.69 · 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

• Dense interaction package: Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C", Mind Mirror Force, Raigeki, Harpie's Feather Duster
• Large Extra Deck of high-ATK bosses (Guardian Chimera 3300, Super Starslayer TY-PHON 2900, Elder Entity N'tss 2500)
• Mikanko equip loop offers recursion through several Equip Spells in the GY and banish zones

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: Forbidden Triple Tactics Talent x3 and Cross-Sheep x1
• No Side Deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Archetype label does not match the list; the Phantom Knights core is absent
• Many singleton and tech slots (17 singletons, 14 tech) raise brick risk and reduce consistency
• No recorded combo boards, so the power ceiling and floor cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• The Mikanko equip-summon chain depends on a small number of Mikanko monsters and Equip Spells being drawn together
• Searcher density (69% to hit >=1 in opening 5) is the main gate to the Extra Deck plan

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 55 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side; Triple Tactics Talent x3 and Cross-Sheep x1 are Forbidden in OCG; Card texts and stats for all 55+15 entries; Archetype usage: 3 of 25 usage-core cards present (12%)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric estimates: searcher P(>=1 in 5) ≈ 0.69, archetype-core P ≈ 0.32, hand-trap P(>=1 in 6) ≈ 0.58; Interaction density and recursion quality from card text; Going-first and going-second scores from text and probability only
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format-fit scores (D13) with no tournament or meta data
• 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 for going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck has 0 Side Deck cards, so the post-side plan cannot be evaluated Archetype label mismatch: 0 Phantom Knights cards present in the list