Phantom Beast (Chimera) Deck #769213 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Fusion, Xyz
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 18 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Hecahands and Chimera Fusion boards (Hecahands Xeno, Hecahands Dandalos, Hecahands Jauzah) that take over the opponent's monsters and attack through them.; Xyz pressure from Number 11: Big Eye, The Zombie Vampire and Super Starslayer TY-PHON when Fusion access stalls.
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Nightmare Apprentice or Gazelle to search Chimera Fusion or a Hecahands monster, then Fusion Summon through Mankibuel or Tartaros into a Fusion Monster. The 4 Hecahands Fusion and Chimera Fusion lines need several cards in hand to work, and the list has no clean T1 line without one of the 3-copy starters.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Infinite Impermanence to stop the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Hecahands Ibtel or Cornfield Coatl searches once the interaction is spent.
• Recovery: Hecahands Yadel and Hecahands Gaigas recur from the GY or hand, and the Mulcharmy draw engine refills the hand when the field is empty.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side_count 0). Post-side adjustments cannot be evaluated; treat any sideboarding plan as unknown.

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal (Ash Blossom at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited cap of 2, Hecahands Jauzah at 5 copies against a cap of 3, and an 18-card Extra Deck against a cap of 15), so the score is a theoretical, structural-only read and is capped at 30 under the legality rule. Within that read, the deck reliably opens a starter: the archetype core is 18 copies with about 96% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and the 14 searchers keep the Fusion engine accessible. Interaction is the strongest part of the system, with 7 hand traps, Droll & Lock Bird and the Yad'al/Ib'al Hecahands traps covering most of the opponent's common starters. The ceiling (Hecahands Xeno, Dandalos, Jauzah) is high, but the median is not recorded, and the 18-card Extra Deck and the lack of a Side Deck cap the consistency and post-side scores. No popularity or meta-share points were given, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57.5, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-3); illegal_cap (-23). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 56.0, then context modifiers (-3) and the Illegal cap (-23) to 30

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• 18-copy archetype core with 96% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand
• Seven hand traps and Droll & Lock Bird give layered interaction going second
• Hecahands and Chimera Fusion lines reach high-ATK boards (Xeno 3400, Dandalos 2900)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom and Hecahands Jauzah over copy limit, Extra Deck of 18 over the OCG maximum of 15
• No Side Deck; no post-side plan
• Fusion conversion needs several specific cards in hand; many lines require Polymerization or Chimera Fusion

Critical choke points

• Super Polymerization (2 copies, Semi-Limited) is a required Fusion enabler
• Chimera Fusion (2 copies) is the main non-Hecahands starter

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal: Ash Blossom 3 copies vs cap 2; Hecahands Jauzah 5 vs cap 3; Extra Deck 18 vs cap 15; Main 40, Extra 18, Side 0; copy histogram 6×3, 6×2, 10×1 (Verified); Archetype core 18 copies, inclusion 52–86% for core cards (usage stats)
• Inferred: Starter access 0.34 for a 3-copy card, 0.96 for the archetype core group; Hand-trap coverage P(>=1 in 6) 0.71 going second; Dimension scores for consistency, brick rate, resilience, interaction and closing power
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; tournament_context is absent; D13 matchup fit has no dated sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: no archetype meta-share or per-pilot match record No win-rate telemetry for going first, going second, matchups, brick rate or OTK rate usage_statistics.in_this_deck is false for Chimera the Illusion Beast, Chimera the King of Phantom Beasts, Guardian Chimera and Berfomet, but cards[] lists each of them in the Extra Deck (copies 1); this data disagrees and was not used for scoring No Side Deck registered (side_count 0) Deck title is null