Phantom Beast (Chimera) Deck #770667 — 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 52 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Link boards led by Chimera the Illusion Beast, Guardian Chimera, Black Chaos and Black Luster Soldier (Inferred from card text); Light and Darkness Ritual boss beatsticks (Magician of Dark Chaos, Black Chaos) and Fiendsmith Lacrima pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Search and summon through Gazelle, Nightmare Apprentice and Chimera Fusion toward a Chimera Fusion, backed by Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll, Cornfield Coatl, Mirror Swordknight) to interrupt, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draw and GY recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: GY recursion via Chimera Fusion, Mirror Swordknight and Cornfield Coatl, plus Mulcharmy draws (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list cannot receive a normal score: it runs 3 copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (OCG limit 2) and 17 Extra Deck cards (limit 15), so it is capped at 30 and treated as structural-only. Structurally, the system opens reasonably well: 27 searcher-text cards give about 98% P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opener), and the Chimera, Light and Darkness Ritual and Fiendsmith lines share some support. The score is held back by a missing side deck, four Limited/Semi-Limited restrictions in the core, no recorded boards to measure a floor or median, and no tournament or meta data. The score was not derived from averaging card scores or from archetype popularity.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox secondary considered but not blended in because the Structural weights already cover the same dimensions. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 47, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-3); no_side_deck (-2); extra_deck_overflow (-1). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*Structural(54.7) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(52) + context modifiers(-6) = about 48. Illegal-list cap applied: final score set to 30 (theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power is null (provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.27 · 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 searcher text (27 cards) gives high opening functionality
• Several 3000+ ATK bosses with recursion
• Layered interaction from hand traps and backrow negation

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom over its copy limit and Extra Deck at 17
• Zero side deck
• Four Limited/Semi-Limited restrictions concentrated in the core
• Many 3-copy starters with weak flex room

Critical choke points

• Chimera Fusion (3 copies) is the main starter and recursion route
• Extra Deck overflow means the list cannot be submitted as-is

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 52 within OCG 40-60; Extra 17 over the 15 limit; Ash Blossom at 3 copies vs 2 legal; four Limited/Semi-Limited cards in the list; Card stats and text for listed cards
• Inferred: Midrange primary strategy and Toolbox secondary; Consistency estimates from hypergeometric draw odds and searcher counts; Going-first and going-second plan descriptions
• Provisional: Meta Power; Format fit (D13)
• 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/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck has no title and no Side Deck