Phantom Knights Deck #773617 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 63/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Rank-Up-Magic chain into a 2500-3000 ATK Xyz Dragon boss that carries negation (Inferred from card text); Xyz boss on the field supported by Dominus Impulse and hand-trap disruption (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Level 3 Phantom Knights starter, use GY-banish and deck-search effects to reach Xyz Summon, and keep Ash Blossom or Ghost Ogre available for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C) to answer the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild the board from the graveyard
• Recovery: Banish-to-search and banish-to-summon effects from the GY (Silent Boots, Decayed Cloak, Doomed Soleret, Torn Scales, Ancient Cloak, Raider's Wing) plus Rank-Up-Magic Requiem to re-Xyz
• After siding: No side deck is registered (0 cards), so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck scores as a connected Xyz system: 26 archetype-core copies make a Level 3 starter in the opening hand almost certain (about 0.995, Inferred), and the graveyard effects of Silent Boots, Decayed Cloak, Doomed Soleret and the others give several independent routes to recover after an interruption. Interaction is layered rather than single-threaded: nine hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C) give about a 0.79 chance of at least one hand trap when going second, backed by Dominus Impulse and the Fog Blade and Umbrage Veil traps. The closing power comes from the 3000-ATK Xyz Dragons and the 2500-ATK Four Heavenly Dragons, not from averaging the card scores. Popularity and archetype usage confirm that the list is real and accessible, but they earned no points on their own. The score is held down by the absence of recorded boards (floor and ceiling are text-inferred), the missing side deck, and Mulcharmy engine conflicts.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype-core density makes a live starter in the opening hand almost certain (Inferred)
• Nine hand traps give layered answers to the opponent's first activation, including going second (Verified card text, Inferred probability)
• Several independent graveyard recursion routes allow recovery after a single disruption (Verified text, Inferred)
• Xyz Dragon boss stats of 2500-3000 ATK give closing power (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptability (Verified)
• Mulcharmy engine conflicts with a board-building Xyz plan (Inferred)
• Exact archetype purity is 48%; 29 off-archetype copies dilute engine coherence (Verified composition)
• Limited singletons Foolish Burial, Maxx C and Reinforcement of the Army each leave one route if removed (Verified banlist)
• No recorded boards, so floor and ceiling are text-inferred (Verified data gap)

Critical choke points

• Rank-Up-Magic Launch and Requiem are one copy each and form the Xyz bridge (Verified composition)
• Four Xyz Dragons in the Extra Deck need Level 4 or 5 material on the field (Inferred)
• Hand traps need the opponent to act; a hand full of them with no board presence can go dead on the first turn (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: four Limited or Semi-Limited cards, all within legal copy limits; Main 42 / Extra 14 / Side 0 within Master Duel size rules; Card stats and effect text for the Xyz Dragons and Phantom Knights monsters; Composition: 23 distinct main, 13 distinct extra, copy histogram 10/7/6
• Observed: Guide 1492 describes omni-negate, floodgate-style support and easier Rank-Up-Magic search (human intent, not win data)
• Inferred: Starter and brick probabilities from hypergeometric draws on the Main Deck; Recovery routes through graveyard recursion; Engine conflict from Mulcharmy empty-field conditions; Ceiling and floor estimated from card text without boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup coverage and format fit (D13 at 50); Side deck adaptability (no side cards)
• 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 (going first, going second, matchup, brick rate) Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample usage statistics in this deck flags do not count Extra Deck cards: Dark Requiem, Dark Rebellion, Rusty Bardiche, Raider's Knight, Malevolent Scythe, Evilswarm Ophion, Four Heavenly Dragons, Cherubini, S:P Little Knight and Arc Rebellion are listed as in this deck:false although the card list runs them in the Extra Deck, so core-card presence 56 is understated Deck title is null; card descriptions are truncated excerpts, so some effect details are unverified