Phantom Knights Deck #774522 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• 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: Phantom Knights and Call of the Haunted boards converted into Link/Xyz pressure (Pumpking, Rusty Bardiche, Wollow, Undying Legion); Wandering Titan of Tartarus and PSY-Frame Driver as high-ATK finishers after a disruption-supported turn
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Call of the Haunted or Hubrow/Mulcharmy searchers, establish a Zombie or Phantom Knights Level-stack, and Xyz or Link into Pumpking or Rusty Bardiche, holding hand traps for the opponent's first answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Skull Meister, Droll & Lock Bird, PSY-Framegear Gamma, Dominus Impulse) to slow the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draws and Call of the Haunted recursion
• Recovery: Recover through Mulcharmy draw effects, Ectoplasmic Fortification and Stare of the Snake Hair searches, and Call of the Haunted returning a monster from the GY
• After siding: No side deck is registered; a legal post-side plan cannot be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck has a real Phantom Knights and Call of the Haunted core: Mulcharmy, Call of the Haunted and the Phantom Knights Spell/Trap package give a recognisable starter set and several routes to a board. Its interaction is the strongest part, with 11 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards that give it resilience against the opponent's first answer, especially when going second. The main weakness is consistency: archetype purity is only 8.6% exact-name, the list runs 64 off-archetype copies across several sub-engines, and 14 singleton slots make the opening hand less reliable. The score is capped because the list is illegal: three cards exceed their copy limits (Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies, S:P Little Knight at 2). Popularity and meta share earned no points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck result.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange (meta-neutral: D13 dropped and weights renormalised over 93). Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: Meta provisional: 0.80*Structural(53) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) ≈ 52, then -12 banlist-exposure modifier ≈ 40; capped at 25 because the list is Illegal (theoretical, structural-only score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · 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

• Eleven hand traps and 14 negation-text cards give strong early interaction
• Archetype core (Phantom Knights, Call of the Haunted, Mulcharmy) is consistently present
• Nine Xyz and six Link monsters give broad Extra Deck coverage

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy-limit violations on three cards
• Low archetype purity (8.6%) across many sub-engines
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• No combo data, so floor and ceiling are unverified

Critical choke points

• Call of the Haunted and Pumpking-based lines depend on a small number of specific Zombie and Level-6 monsters
• Losing the Mulcharmy draw engine removes most of the recovery plan

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0; copy-limit violations for Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse and S:P Little Knight; Card text for the listed hand traps and engines
• Inferred: Starter probability ≈ 0.86 (hypergeometric on the core group); Interaction density and resilience ratings from card text; Going-first and going-second plans from text and probabilities
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Format fit (no tournament link); Post-side adaptability (no side deck)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck registered no guides attached