Phantom Knights Deck #774048 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox, Xyz, Link
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz and Link boss monsters (Pumpking the Great Ghost King, Wandering Titan of Tartarus, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS, Wollow) reached through Call of the Haunted and Phantom Knights Xyz/Link lines; Recursion of Zombie monsters via Mulcharmy draw pressure and Zombie searchers, with Goblin Biker Big Gabonga as a secondary Xyz
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Phantom Knights or Call of the Haunted starter, search or summon into a Link or Xyz boss, and keep one hand trap (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Skull Meister, Droll) up for the opponent's first answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to hold two or more hand traps (about 76 percent chance of at least one) to negate the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Zombie searchers and Mulcharmy draws
• Recovery: Rebuild from the graveyard with Mezuki, Changshi, Officiating Reverie and Call of the Haunted, and use Ectoplasmic Fortification or Stare of the Snake Hair to re-add the Call of the Haunted engine
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck (side_count 0), so there is no recorded post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Phantom Knights or Call of the Haunted starter often enough that the 17-copy archetype core has an estimated 86 percent chance of at least one copy in a five-card opening hand (Inferred). Its interaction is the strongest part of the system: 11 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards give a high chance of stopping the opponent's first starter when going second. Conversion is capped by a thin, mixed engine: only 6 of 55 Main Deck cards carry the exact Phantom Knights name (8.6 percent exact purity), with 64 off-archetype copies spread across Call of the Haunted, Dominus, Mulcharmy, Goblin, Death and PSY-Frame, so several lines compete for the same hand slots. No recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences and the floor is scored conservatively. The score comes from consistency, interaction and the system as a whole, not from popularity or from averaging individual card scores; because the list is illegal and has no side deck, the Final score is capped at 30 and is structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 55.6, then context modifiers -7 = 48.6, then Illegal cap applied = 30 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.14 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Strong interaction density: 11 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards
• High archetype-core consistency (about 86 percent to open at least one core card)
• Multiple Xyz and Link bosses with strong ATK
• Recursion and draw engines (Mulcharmy, Zombie searchers)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy limits on Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse and S:P Little Knight
• Low exact archetype purity (8.6 percent) and many competing sub-archetypes
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Reaching the Call of the Haunted or Phantom Knights Xyz/Link boss line depends on one or two starters
• Correcting the three over-limit cards is required before any normal Final score applies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom 3 copies vs 2 legal, Dominus Impulse 3 vs 2, S:P Little Knight 2 vs 1; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size rules; side is 0 and absent; Card text and stats for all 40+ distinct cards; Archetype core usage: 7 of 25 core cards present (28 percent)
• Observed: No recorded combo boards exist for this deck
• Inferred: 86 percent opening-hand core access and 14 percent proxy brick rate; Hand-trap interaction density and going-second 76 percent estimate; Combo ceiling and median from card text only; Consistency and resilience dimensions
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13); Tournament reliability
• 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 in YGOVN for this deck; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck, so best-of-3 adaptability cannot be measured