Burning Abyss Deck #769658 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Phantom Knights Xyz chains (Break Sword, Malevolent Scythe, Raider's Knight) and the Rusty Bardiche link board, built from the Torn Scales / Silent Boots / Decayed Cloak / Doomed Soleret starter set; Rank-Up-Magic Launch / Requiem upgrades into a higher-rank DARK Xyz; Dark Requiem and Arc Rebellion Xyz Dragon are not run, so the Xyz Dragon route is absent
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Phantom Knights starter (about 0.98 chance of at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card hand, Inferred), search or summon a second Phantom Knights monster, and build a Xyz or Link board while holding Fog Blade, Umbrage Veil or Ash as interruption
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom, Solemn Judgment, Solemn Accusation and Dominus Impulse to stop the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild through Phantom Knights recursion from the GY
• Recovery: Banish Phantom Knights monsters from the GY for their recursion effects, re-summon via Xyz or Link material, and reuse Rank-Up-Magic to rebuild after a clear
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck's reliable opening rests on its Phantom Knights core: 30 archetype-core copies give a hypergeometric chance of about 0.98 that a 5-card opening hand contains at least one of them (Inferred), and the resulting starter set feeds Xyz and Link summons. Its conversion ceiling is only partly visible, since there are no parseable recorded boards, so Xyz and Link routes are read from card text (Inferred) and the floor is scored lower than the ceiling. Interaction is dense: 17 negation-text cards, 34 removal-text cards and 5 hand-trap-tagged cards, although three of the hand traps and the two Forbidden or Limited tech cards sit over the OCG copy limits. Scores were built from the system (consistency, median output, interaction and resilience together), not by averaging card scores, and the Burning Abyss archetype label does not drive the score because only 1 of 70 copies carries the exact name (1.4% purity) while the deck is Phantom Knights-led with Mulcharmy and Lswarm splashes. Because the deck is Illegal, the final score is capped at 30 and labelled structural-only, and there is no Side Deck or tournament evidence to lift it.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox secondary, not separately weighted. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap applied (structural-only): 0.80*54 + 0.20*35 = 50.2, then modifiers -10 gives 40.2, capped to 30 because status is Illegal; Meta Provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Phantom Knights core (26 copies) gives a high archetype-core hit rate in opening hands
• Layered interaction from negation, removal and hand-trap text, with Ash Blossom, Droll, Solemn and Dominus Impulse
• Multiple recursion routes from the GY keep lines alive after one disruption
• Xyz and Link end-boards reach roughly 1900 to 2100 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal under OCG copy limits: Forbidden, Limited and Semi-Limited cards are over-run
• Archetype label Burning Abyss does not match the deck: 1.4% exact-name purity, Phantom Knights-led
• No Side Deck, so there is no best-of-3 adaptability
• No recorded boards, so combo conversion and median output are unmeasured
• Mulcharmy, Lswarm and Dominus splash dilutes engine coherence

Critical choke points

• Burning Abyss label versus real Phantom Knights core: a sub-archetype mismatch the evidence cannot resolve
• Forbidden tech (Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent) cannot be played in OCG at all, so those slots are dead
• Heavy reliance on the Xyz Break Sword / Malevolent Scythe pair for board-clearing

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal with five copy-limit violations; Side deck count is zero; Exact-name purity 1.4%; Phantom Knights 26 copies; Card text and banlist status for every listed card
• Inferred: Starter access of about 0.98 from the archetype-core hypergeometric estimate; Interaction density from negation and removal text counts; Xyz and Link end-board ATK ranges from printed stats; Brick proxy of about 0.015
• Provisional: Format fit and matchup coverage (no tournament link, no dated meta sample); Meta Power (null)
• 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, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck supplied, so post-side plans cannot be evaluated Deck title is null, and the Burning Abyss archetype label conflicts with the card mix