Phantom Knights Deck #768099 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Phantom Knights Xyz/Link boards (Break Sword, Malevolent Scythe, Rusty Bardiche) plus a 3000-ATK Xyz boss (Dark Requiem, Zeus, Utopic Draco Future) built from Phantom Knights bodies; Mulcharmy and Adventurer card advantage that grinds the opponent out when the Xyz line is stopped
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Level 3 Phantom Knights starter (Torn Scales, Silent Boots, Doomed Soleret) and convert it into an Xyz or Link using the GY and Deck search effects; hold Ash, Droplet or Impermanence as protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash, Infinite Impermanence, Forbidden Droplet, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) to answer the opponent's board, then rebuild an Xyz from the GY or hand
• Recovery: Banish Phantom Knights monsters from the GY to search Phantom Knights Spell/Traps and monsters (Silent Boots, Decayed Cloak, Ancient Cloak, Ragged Gloves), then rebuild a Xyz
• After siding: None: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Phantom Knights starter: the archetype core group has about a 94% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred hypergeometric estimate), and that access is what earns the Consistency score. Its strongest points are layered interaction (10 hand traps and 16 negation or removal texts across Ash, Impermanence, Droplet, Maxx C, Droll, Solemn and Nibiru) and a Xyz/Link board finisher with 2500-3000 ATK bosses. Its weak points are that 47 of 71 cards are off the exact archetype name (33.8% purity), that six Mulcharmy and three Nibiru are not part of the Xyz engine, and that there is no Side Deck. No combos were supplied, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences and are scored with low weight. The score comes from consistency, interaction, and closing power on the whole system; it is not an average of individual card scores, and archetype usage stats confirmed the core list but added no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: no side deck (-3); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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

• Layered interaction: 10 hand traps plus Spell/Trap and monster negation give answers on both turns
• Xyz/Link finishers with 2500-3000 ATK bosses and Phantom Knights recursion for grind
• The archetype core is consistently accessible (about 94% for at least one core card in hand5)

Weaknesses

• Low archetype purity (33.8%): six Mulcharmy and three Nibiru do not feed the Xyz engine
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combo boards, so ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• The first Level 3 Phantom Knights starter: a bad opening without one is the main brick risk
• Xyz material supply from Phantom Knights monsters, since hand-trap use competes with material

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 56 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side within 40-60 / 0-15 / 0-15; no violations; Banlist: 8 Limited and 1 Semi-Limited card, all run within legal copies; Archetype purity 33.8% exact name; 12 of 22 core cards present (usage stats)
• Inferred: Consistency estimates from hypergeometric probabilities; Interaction density from card text and negation hints; Going-second hand-trap availability
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample; Tournament reliability: no 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 No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck: post-side performance cannot be assessed