Phantom Knights Deck #772192 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Xyz/Link (mechanic)
• Format: ocg

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz/Link beaters and Dark Rebellion-family Xyz Dragons (Four Heavenly Dragons, Dark Requiem, Arc Rebellion) built through Phantom Knights Xyz Material chains; Recursion of Phantom Knights monsters from the GY via Torn Scales, Silent Boots and Decayed Cloak, feeding Rank-Up-Magic Requiem and Launch
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Phantom Knights monster plus a searcher or Xyz starter, Normal Summon a Level 3 into an Xyz, and hold Solemn or Ash Blossom for the first disruption
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Maxx C, Droll and Dominus Impulse to break the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through the Phantom Knights recursion loop
• Recovery: Banish Torn Scales, Silent Boots or Decayed Cloak from the GY for a searcher or a re-summon, then Rank-Up into Requiem or Xyz Dragons
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Phantom Knights starter: the 23 archetype-core copies give about a 94% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and nine searcher-text cards give about 61%. Its strongest feature is the seven-card-deep interaction layer: three Solemn traps, Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Maxx C, Droll and Dominus Impulse keep a 6-card hand's disruption density high, which is why D7 and D8 score above the median. Conversion is credited from the Xyz and Link Extra Deck (11 Xyz, 4 Link, all 15 slots used), not from any recorded board, because the export contains zero combos, so the combo ceiling and floor scores are text-only inference and carry wide error. The score does not come from Phantom Knights being a popular archetype, and it is not an average of card scores; the deck is penalised for having no side deck (D12 = 10), for 11 Limited single-copy cards that are costly to replace, and for Mulcharmy Fuwalos and the generic draw/tech slots, which need an empty field and clash with the Xyz board.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 61, Going Second ≈ 59, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-2); engine_conflict (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Very high archetype-core density (23 copies) gives reliable starter access
• Dense interaction layer of hand traps and Solemn traps provides layered answers on both turns
• Full 15-slot Extra Deck with Xyz and Link routes covering Ranks 3 to 5
• Recursion from the GY through Torn Scales, Silent Boots and Decayed Cloak

Weaknesses

• No side deck at all, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combos, so the conversion ceiling and floor are unverified
• 11 Limited single-copy cards raise replacement cost and availability risk
• Mulcharmy Fuwalos and generic tech slots dilute the engine on the non-empty board

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Rank-Up-Magic Requiem and Launch gate the Rank-Up route
• Searcher access (about 61% per 5-card hand) is the gate to finding the second starter

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 legal under OCG size rules; All copy counts within banlist limits (Limited 1, Semi-Limited 2); Extra Deck breakdown 11 Xyz and 4 Link; Archetype purity 40% exact-name; Extra-Deck cards present in the cards list
• Observed: Usage stats show 22 of 22 core cards are in the list by ID
• Inferred: Starter access 94% for core and 25% for a single 3-copy starter (hypergeometric); Interaction density from card text (19 negation, 35 removal); Going-second hand-trap probability ~0.63
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13 = 50) without a dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference usage_statistics in_this_deck flags are false for 10 Extra-Deck core cards (Arc Rebellion, Dark Requiem, Evilswarm Ophion, Exosister Karmael, Raider's Knight, Rusty Bardiche, Masquerena, Cherubini, S:P Little Knight, Dark Rebellion) even though those cards appear in the cards list; the preprocessor likely matches only main-deck zones, so the reported missing_core (45%) is unreliable no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and match record are absent no guides attached no win-rate telemetry; Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck, so post-side plan cannot be evaluated