Phantom Knights Deck #768680 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, Mechanic: Xyz/Link
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz and Link boards from Phantom Knights engine, closing with 3000-ATK Xyz Dragons (Dark Requiem, Arc Rebellion) and Phantom Knights Xyz/Link bosses; Disruption-backed attrition: hand traps and negates protect the board while recursion from the GY refuels the engine
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Phantom Knights starter (Doomed Soleret, Decayed Cloak, Torn Scales, Silent Boots), extend through Rank-Up-Magic Launch or Requiem and reach a 2-Level-3/4 Xyz; hold Ash Blossom or Ghost Belle for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with 12 hand traps (about 79% to hold at least one): hand-trap the opponent's first engine, then rebuild a Phantom Knights board through the GY recursion
• Recovery: Banish Phantom Knights monsters from the GY (Silent Boots, Decayed Cloak, Ancient Cloak) to re-summon or search the next starter
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

This list is illegal as submitted: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse are each run three times against an OCG Semi-Limited limit of two, so the normal Final Contextual score is capped and the result is theoretical and structural only. The structural read rests on the Phantom Knights core (23 copies, about 94% to open at least one core card in a 5-card hand by the proxy estimate) and on a strong interaction suite of 12 hand traps and 15 negation-text cards. The deck reliably has disruption on the opponent's first engine and a recursive GY that can refuel. Its ceiling is a Xyz or Link board closed by 3000-ATK Xyz Dragons, but no recorded boards exist to confirm the floor, median, or ceiling. Popularity or archetype share did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57.4, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); no_combo_corpus (-4). Final formula: Theoretical only, illegal list. Formula 0.80*57.4 + 0.20*50 = 55.9; context modifiers -12 (total); illegal-list cap applied, final 40. Meta Power provisional/null.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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 archetype core (23 copies) with about 94% to open at least one core card
• Strong interaction suite: 12 hand traps and 15 negation-text cards
• Recursive GY through banish-based Phantom Knights effects
• Xyz and Link Extra Deck coverage with 3000-ATK closers

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts for Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse
• No side deck
• Only 38.6% exact-archetype purity; many generic and off-archetype slots
• Hand traps are dead without an opponent action on going first

Critical choke points

• A single Level 3 starter is needed to begin Xyz summons; Rank-Up-Magic is a single-copy engine line
• Hand-trap-dependent going-first turn with no non-interaction starter

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; Side is 0; Archetype core group: 23 copies; purity 38.6%
• Inferred: Going-first and going-second hand-trap and starter probabilities; Interaction density and engine accessibility read from card text; Median and ceiling estimates without recorded boards
• Provisional: Matchup coverage and format fit; Meta Power (null)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and match record absent No side deck registered No win-rate telemetry Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample