Phantom Beast (Chimera) Deck #771247 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 31/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Tempo
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Fusion/Link boards (Berfomet, Azamina Mu Rcielago, Dark Magician of Destruction, Fiendsmith's Lacrima) built from Chimera Fusion and searcher-driven starters; the two Forbidden Fusions are not legally playable in this list.; Chaos Angel (Synchro) and S:P Little Knight / A Bao A Qu (Link) as board-presence and removal payoffs.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Gazelle, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Nightmare Apprentice or Diabellstar to search Chimera Fusion, then Fusion Summon from the Extra Deck; the deck has no recorded boards to confirm which starter is most reliable.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Maxx C and Nibiru as hand traps against the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through Cornfield Coatl or Mirror Swordknight, which are the only in-deck negation-style answers on the second turn.
• Recovery: Searchers (Gazelle, Nightmare Apprentice, Evil HERO Adusted Gold, Berfomet, Deception of the Sinful Spoils) refill the hand and GY-recursion effects (Cornfield Coatl, Master Tao, Fiendsmith's Requiem) restart the engine; the sample is too thin to measure how often recovery succeeds.
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck registers zero Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: its searcher density (19 searcher-text cards, about 97% chance of at least one in an opening 5) and three copies each of Chimera Fusion and its enablers give it a reliable T1 search path into the Extra Deck, and four hand traps plus Maxx C give it real interaction. It loses points because the list spreads across at least eight sub-archetypes (Azamina, Fiendsmith, Sinful Spoils, Diabellstar, Mulcharmy, Evil HERO, Relinquished, Chaos, Magician) with zero exact archetype purity, so engines conflict and many starters do not chain into each other. No recorded combo boards exist, so ceiling and median output are text-only inferences. The list is Illegal under the OCG ban field because Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon and Azamina Ilia Silvia are Forbidden, and the deck has no Side Deck; both facts cap the final score. Popularity of the Chimera core (usage stats show it in roughly half of archetype lists) confirms the list is real, not that it is strong, and the scores were not averaged from card values.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 44, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 38, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*44 + 0.20*40 - 12 = 31.2 (Meta provisional); Illegal list, so the result is structural-only and capped low.

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

• Dense searcher package (19 cards) gives high access to the Chimera Fusion starter.
• Four hand traps plus Maxx C and Nibiru provide early interaction.
• Extra Deck covers several Fusion and Link boss options.

Weaknesses

• Two Forbidden Extra Deck cards make the list illegal as submitted.
• Zero exact archetype purity: three to eight engines compete for the same hand.
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation.
• Heavy singleton count (20 of 27 distinct) raises the chance of dead or conflicting cards.

Critical choke points

• Chimera Fusion (3 copies) is the single main starter; without it most lines have no Extra Deck route.
• Legal-copy limits on Fiendsmith Engraver, Fiendsmith's Lacrima, Maxx C, S:P Little Knight and WANTED each cap how many engines can run together.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 2 Forbidden cards run; main 40, extra 15, side 0 under OCG size rules.; Copy histogram: 20 singleton, 1 two-of, 6 three-of main slots.; Archetype purity: 0% exact name, 55 off-archetype copies.; Extra Deck breakdown: 10 Fusion, 4 Link, 1 Synchro.
• Observed: Usage stats: 14 archetype rows; 7 of 12 core cards present (58.3%).
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter, searcher and hand-trap odds.; Dimension scores D1-D11 and D14.; Strategy classification from card text and composition.
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit: no tournament or dated metagame data.
• 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 exists in YGOVN; all consistency and matchup figures are Inferred. Usage statistics mark Chimera the King of Phantom Beasts, Chimera the Illusion Beast, Guardian Chimera, Berfomet and Chaos Angel as in this deck=false even though the card list places them in the Extra Deck; the core-presence figure may be understated. No Side Deck: post-side plan cannot be evaluated. Deck has no title (deck_name null); identity is from the deck's contents only.