Phantasm Spiral Deck #771647 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Thunder-engine monster beats (Blitzclique searchers and triggered destruction into Thunder Kaiju, Odin, Whisker Blitzclique and Veidos) backed by hand-trap and removal interaction; Extra Deck Synchro/Xyz beaters (Dingirsu, Vallon, Toxic Boxfish, Enigmaster Packbit) once the board is stable
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Thunder starter (Emi, Surge, Crackle, Grain Blitzclique, Steppleader or Breakaway) that searches or Special Summons a second Thunder monster, then use Blitzclique Alternator or Return Stroke to protect the board
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Skull Meister and Blitzclique Return Stroke to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild with Blitzclique searches from the GY
• Recovery: Recursion from the GY through Blitzclique monsters and Astrazma Urania, plus searcher-driven card advantage (24 searcher-text cards) to replace lost hand cards
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered; no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck is legal and built on a dense Blitzclique Thunder engine: most of its Main Deck runs three copies of searchers and starters, so the opening hand usually reaches a live starter (P(≥1 searcher in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.95, Inferred). Its strength is in interaction and recursion rather than in a proven combo: 6 hand traps, 10 negation-text cards and 37 removal-text cards give it layered answers, and the GY recursion keeps the engine going after disruption. The score is built from these system-level dimensions, not by averaging the individual card power of its 40-plus distinct cards. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype label Phantasm Spiral matches no card in the list, and the deck has no usage-stat core, no recorded boards and no tournament record, so the combo and matchup dimensions stay near neutral. Without a Side Deck and with an unclear archetype identity, the score is capped in the mid-50s. Meta Power is provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange 80 / Toolbox 20 (structural weights blended with the Toolbox profile; primary Midrange profile used for the final number). Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: no side deck (-2); multi-engine dilution (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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 Thunder/Blitzclique starter and searcher density (3 copies each)
• Layered interaction: 6 hand traps, negation and removal text across the Main Deck
• GY recursion and searchers that keep card advantage after disruption
• Legal list at standard OCG sizes with no banlist exposure

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Archetype label and card list disagree (no Phantasm Spiral cards), so engine identity is unclear
• Several off-archetype engines dilute the core
• No recorded combos, usage stats or tournament data to confirm conversion

Critical choke points

• Opening Thunder starter: a hand without a Thunder starter or searcher has no engine
• Lava Golem needs an opponent's board for its 2-tribute Special Summon
• Extra Deck relies on a few Synchro and Xyz bosses that each need specific materials

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 55 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within OCG size rules; No banned or Limited cards: all restricted_cards empty; Copy histogram 15 cards at 3 copies, 4 at 1 copy; Searcher-text, removal-text and negation-text counts from role tags; Boss ATK/DEF values from card data
• Inferred: P(≥1 searcher in opening 5) ≈ 0.95; Hand-trap access going second ≈ 0.52; Engine consistency and brick risk from card text; Interaction layering from text reads; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13 = 50, no tournament link)
• 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 usage-stat core present for the archetype (0 of 11 core cards run) Archetype label 'Phantasm Spiral' does not match the card list; the engine reads as Blitzclique Deck title is null and there is no Side Deck No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample