Phantom Knights Deck #773706 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz and Link boards built from Phantom Knights monsters, closing with Phantom Knights of Rusty Bardiche, Raider's Knight and Break Sword style bosses; Mulcharmy draw and Orcust Link-based board pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Phantom Knights searcher or summon (Silent Boots, Decayed Cloak, Doomed Soleret), chain into a Rank-Up-Magic or Xyz line, and protect with Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Typhoon-style interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched, Dominus Impulse) to stop the opponent's summon, then rebuild a board from the GY and banished Phantom Knights
• Recovery: Banish Phantom Knights monsters from the GY to re-summon or search, and use Mulcharmy draw and Galatea-I to refill the hand
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in TCG: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are each run three times against a Semi-Limited cap of two, and the Extra Deck holds 16 cards against a maximum of 15. Because of that, the score is a structural read capped at 40 and is theoretical only. The structural read finds a real engine: the archetype core is present in 97% of opening hands (Inferred), and the Phantom Knights searchers and Xyz/Link bosses give it redundant lines. The deck also carries 11 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards, which gives it resilience and going-second value. Its weak points are the lack of any recorded combo data, a low side-deck score (no side deck), and the 16-card Extra Deck. The score comes from the consistency, interaction and closing structure of the system and not from averaging card scores, and the archetype's popularity earned no points because no meta or tournament data is attached.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-4). Final formula: Structural 56.2 from the Combo profile; computed 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 54; Illegal cap applied, so the final score is min(54, 40) = 40 and is theoretical/structural only. Meta is provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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

• Core Phantom Knights engine is accessible on the opening hand (Inferred)
• Layered hand traps and negation give going-second disruption
• Mulcharmy and GY banish recursion keep the hand and board refilled

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: two copy-limit violations and a 16-card Extra Deck
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• Lightly coherent: only 30.6% exact-name archetype purity across several sub-archetypes

Critical choke points

• The Phantom Knights searchers and Rank-Up-Magic lines depend on a small number of Xyz and Link bosses
• Hand-trap timing errors can waste the single most valuable interaction

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse over copy limit; Extra Deck 16 over 15; Archetype core present in 97.4% of 5-card hands (hypergeometric); 11 hand traps, 13 negation-text, 35 removal-text by role-tag count; No side deck; no tournament link; no combos supplied
• Inferred: Engine consistency and redundancy of Phantom Knights lines; Interaction layering and going-second disruption quality; Closing power of the Xyz and Link bosses; Pilot complexity estimate
• Provisional: Meta Power is null and D13 is neutral because no dated metagame sample is supplied
• 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/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown No side deck, so post-side plan is unevaluable Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied