Phantom Knights Deck #771529 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Phantom Knights Xyz and Link boards (Break Sword, Malevolent Scythe, Rusty Bardiche, Raider's Knight) built from Phantom Knights hand-starters and Rank-Up-Magic Launch / Requiem; Orcust Link and Xyz boards (Galatea, Enlilgirsu, Dingirsu) through Orcust Harp Horror and Cymbal Skeleton recursion
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Phantom Knights hand-starter (Decayed Cloak, Doomed Soleret, Torn Scales, Silent Boots), search a second Phantom Knights card, and extend into a Level 3 Xyz or Link with Ragged Gloves and Break Sword
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Dominus Spark to break the opponent's first summon chain, then rebuild through Phantom Knights searchers and Rank-Up-Magic
• Recovery: Recover from GY through banish-cost searchers (Silent Boots, Ancient Cloak, Decayed Cloak) and Rank-Up-Magic Requiem revival
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan in this list

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its card scores. Its Phantom Knights core (22 exact-name copies, 29.3% purity) opens a live hand-starter in most hands (archetype-core proxy about 0.93 for at least one in a 5-card hand), which supports a moderate engine-access score. Its eight hand traps, Solemn-style negations and Dominus/Forbidden interaction give it above-average end-board and going-second disruption. The main deck is diluted: 53 of 60 copies are off-archetype and there is no Side Deck, which holds back brick management, efficiency and post-side adaptability. No combo boards are recorded and no tournament or meta data is attached, so the combo and matchup scores are text-based inferences, and popularity or archetype share earned no points. Because the list runs 3 copies of two Semi-Limited cards in OCG, the deck is Illegal; it is capped at a theoretical, structural-only score of 35.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Stun secondary (about 80/20 by weight). Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 57, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); No side deck (-4); Illegal cap (-5). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) = 52.4; modifiers -12 gives 40.4; Illegal cap applied gives 35 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · 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

• Large Phantom Knights core with multiple hand-starters and searchers
• Strong interaction density: 8 hand-traps and 17 negation-text cards
• Extra Deck covers Phantom Knights Xyz and Link routes with Orcust backup

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: two Semi-Limited cards run 3 copies each
• Low purity: 53 of 60 main-deck copies are off-archetype
• No Side Deck for a best-of-3 format
• No combo or tournament data to confirm the real ceiling

Critical choke points

• Starter access depends on a Phantom Knights hand-starter being in hand; the 0.93 core proxy hides which starter is live
• Two 3-copy Semi-Limited cards cannot be legally played

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts; OCG size rules met; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against Semi-Limited limit 2 (illegal); Archetype usage: Phantom Knights core inclusion 52–72% for listed cards
• Inferred: Starter access and brick risk from the hypergeometric proxy; Engine coherence and off-archetype dilution from composition; Interaction quality from card text and role hints
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no dated meta sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for this deck (going-first/second, matchup, brick rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck is registered, so side adaptability cannot be measured