Phantom Knights Deck #772849 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, Xyz/Link
• Format: ocg

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz and Link beatsticks (Break Sword, Dark Rebellion Four Heavenly Dragons, Arc Rebellion, Dark Requiem, Rusty Bardiche) built off a Phantom Knights recursion engine; Going-second board breaking with 11 hand traps and Forbidden/Limited spell-trap removal, converting into Extra Deck monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Phantom Knights starter (Doomed Soleret, Torn Scales, Silent Boots, Decayed Cloak) and chain GY/Deck recursion into a Level 3 or Level 4 Xyz or Link, backed by Solemn/Droplet/Crown to protect the first Summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Maxx C, Droll) to break the opponent's first Summon or search, then rebuild the Phantom Knights engine off the opponent's set-up
• Recovery: Phantom Knights monsters recur from the GY (Torn Scales, Silent Boots, Decayed Cloak, Stained Greaves) and Rank-Up-Magic Requiem / Raider's Knight re-enter the Extra Deck line after a single board wipe
• After siding: Not supported: the list carries no Side Deck, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Phantom Knights starter: archetype-core cards give roughly a 0.92 chance of at least one in the opening five, with nine three-copy Phantom Knights monsters and spells supplying recursion. Its strongest scoring comes from interaction: 23 negation-text and 34 removal-text cards, 11 hand traps, and a 76% chance of at least one hand trap in a going-second six-card hand. Conversion is the weak point, because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based inferences and the median is not shown to be higher than the ceiling. Structural power was computed from the 14 dimensions with the Midrange profile and Meta excluded; popularity did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score. The 42 off-archetype copies and empty side deck pull the score down, and the Limited banlist exposure applies a further modifier.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange profile, D13 dropped and weights renormalized over 95 (meta-neutral structural). Structural ≈ 62.3, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); off-archetype dilution (-2); no side deck (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional, D13 excluded from Structural) = 0.80*62.3 + 0.20*60 = 61.8, then modifiers total -5 -> 57

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.08 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Strong interaction suite: 11 hand traps plus Heavy Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Forbidden Crown and Solemn Judgment
• Redundant Phantom Knights starters (nine three-copy effects) give a high archetype-core hit rate
• Going-second answers are dense (about 76% chance of a hand trap in six cards)
• Extra Deck offers several 2500 to 3000 ATK closers across Xyz and Link

Weaknesses

• Off-archetype dilution: 42 of 55 Main copies are not Phantom Knights by exact name
• No sideboard, so no post-side adaptation for best-of-3
• Combo conversion is unverified: no recorded boards exist to confirm the ceiling or median
• Limited-heavy list raises banlist sensitivity and tech-card brick risk

Critical choke points

• The Rank-Up-Magic Requiem and Raider's Knight link line runs through single copies (1 copy each), so losing them can stall the Extra Deck route
• Hand-trap count depends on the opponent's Summons; going first with no interaction leaves 11 hand traps weak early

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal OCG list: 55 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within size rules [0-60] main, [0-15] extra, [0-15] side; Limited copy counts respected (1 each) and Semi-Limited copy counts respected (2 each); Archetype core probability 0.92 for at least one in opening five; Off-archetype copies 42, exact-name purity 40%
• Observed: Usage stats show Phantom Knights core cards (for example Doomed Soleret, Decayed Cloak, Torn Scales) are present in the deck
• Inferred: Interaction density is high (23 negation and 34 removal text cards); Going-second answer rate is about 76% from hand-trap hypergeometric draws; Engine recursion gives multiple independent lines; Median output is unverified and set near the middle of the range on text alone
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample; Matchup and format-fit (D13) excluded from the structural score
• 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: going-first and going-second splits, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no guides attached (guides_evidence total 0) title is null in the deck export