Phantom Beast (Chimera) Deck #769675 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Fusion (mechanic)
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Phantom Beast and Eyes Restrict boss monsters from Extra Deck, enabled by Polymerization-family spells and Chimera Fusion; Relinquished / Eyes Restrict equip-and-ATK pressure from the Ritual and Link Extra Deck monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Gazelle or Nightmare Apprentice to search Chimera Fusion, then Chimera Fusion or Polymerization into a Fusion boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Nibiru) to protect the first Fusion, then Fusion from the hand
• Recovery: Searchers in the Deck and GY recursion (Chimera Fusion, Cornfield Coatl, Mirror Swordknight) rebuild the starter
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (0 cards)

Why it scores here

The deck is capped low because it is Illegal in OCG: it runs one copy of Forbidden Albion the Branded Dragon and carries 17 Extra Deck cards against a maximum of 15. Structurally, it reliably opens a searcher (P of at least one searcher in a 5-card hand is about 0.89, Inferred), and Chimera Fusion plus Polymerization-family spells give it a real Fusion route to a 2400–3300 ATK boss. Interaction is reasonable: six hand traps and about ten negation effects give it going-second resilience. Scores were built on the system (consistency, interaction, and conversion together), not by averaging card scores. Card popularity and the archetype's 50% core-presence statistic confirm the list is real, but they did not add points. No combo boards, tournament record, or side deck were supplied, so median output, meta fit, and post-side scores are Provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflict (-3). Final formula: Structural 51.5 (Combo profile) → modifiers −9 → 42 → Illegal cap at 30 (structural-only, theoretical). Normal 0.80·Structural + 0.20·TournamentReliability is not applied to an Illegal deck.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · 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

• Searcher density (18 searcher-text cards) gives a high chance of a live starter in the opening hand
• Six hand traps and ten negation-text cards give real going-second interaction
• Extra Deck bosses reach 2400–3300 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Forbidden Albion plus 17 Extra Deck cards against a 15-card limit
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Low exact archetype purity (0%) across Chimera, Eyes Restrict, Albaz and Branded parts
• Barrier Statue and Summon Gate conflict with the deck's own Fusion monsters

Critical choke points

• Chimera Fusion and Polymerization-family spells as the single Fusion route
• Extra Deck limit breach must be fixed before the list is playable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Albion Forbidden at 1 copy; Extra Deck 17 > 15; Main 52 cards and 0 Side cards; Searcher text count 18; hand trap count 6; negation text count 10; Archetype core present 6/12 (50%) from usage stats
• Inferred: P(≥1 searcher in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.89 from hypergeometric draw odds; Interaction and resilience scores from hand-trap and negation text counts; Barrier Statue conflict with the deck's own non-DARK Fusion monsters
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Tournament reliability and matchup fit (no tournament link); Post-side plan (no Side Deck)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck present (0 cards); post-side scores cannot be verified