Phantom Knights Deck #771434 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz and Link summons from Phantom Knights starters, with Rank-Up-Magic follow-ups converting into high-ATK Xyz boards; Raidraptor - Rising Rebellion Falcon and Super Starslayer TY-PHON as Extra Deck closers when the line allows
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Phantom Knights starter (Silent Boots, Torn Scales, Decayed Cloak, Doomed Soleret) and Special Summon into an Xyz or Link line, protected by Ash Blossom and Ghost Belle
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Dominus Impulse, Dominus Spark) to break the opponent's board, then rebuild through the Phantom Knights recursion
• Recovery: Banish Phantom Knights monsters from the GY (Silent Boots, Decayed Cloak, Ancient Cloak) to search or Special Summon the next starter
• After siding: Not evaluable: Side Deck size is 0, so no post-side plan exists in the submitted list

Why it scores here

This list would reliably open a Phantom Knights starter: the 25-card archetype core has an estimated 96% chance of at least one piece in the opening five, and three copies of each main starter give roughly a 25% chance per card in the opening five. Its interaction is the strongest part of the system, with 7 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards letting it answer the opponent's first combo or summon on either turn order. Conversion is only Inferred, because no combo boards were supplied and the Xyz/Link lines are judged from card text. Floor and matchup are Provisional, since no tournament or win-rate data exists, and the 21 generic and 6 Dominus cards dilute the engine. The score is not driven by Phantom Knights' popularity and is not an average of card scores. The list is over the OCG copy limit on two Semi-Limited cards, so the structural score is capped and the final value is theoretical only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Copy-limit violation (OCG Semi-Limited) (-12); No side deck (0). Final formula: Illegal cap applied. Uncapped 0.80*Structural(57) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 55, minus 12 copy-limit modifier = 43, capped at 35 for an Illegal list. Theoretical / structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.04 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core archetype density gives near-certain starter access in the opening five
• Seven hand traps and layered negate/removal text give strong interaction on both turn orders
• Extra Deck covers both Xyz and Link routes with several closers

Weaknesses

• Copy-limit violation on two Semi-Limited cards makes the list illegal as submitted
• 21 generic and 6 off-archetype Dominus cards dilute the engine
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies: over the legal limit, so the deck must cut to 2 each before it is playable
• Rank-Up-Magic chains depend on a small number of Xyz monsters on the field

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15 within OCG size rules; Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies against a legal limit of 2; Composition: 27 exact archetype copies, 21 generic, 6 Dominus, 6 Mulcharmy; Core-group opening-hand probability 0.959
• Inferred: Starter access and brick estimates from hypergeometric draws; Interaction density from negation and removal text; Going-first and going-second scores from card text
• Provisional: Median and floor output (no recorded boards); Matchup and format fit (no tournament data); Meta power (no dated metagame sample)
• 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 side deck submitted — D12 and post-side plan cannot be assessed no win-rate telemetry — going-first/second, matchup, and brick/starter rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied