Phantom Knights Deck #775025 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Stun
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz and Link boss monsters (Number 75, Exosister Karmael, Evilswarm Ophion, Divine Arsenal, Fiendsmith's Desirae) built off Phantom Knights and Goblin Biker Xyz chains; Nibiru, the Primal Being token-based boards and Mulcharmy draw pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Phantom Knights Level 3 starter (Torn Scales, Decayed Cloak, Doomed Soleret) and extend into a Xyz or Link summon; hold hand traps (Ash, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence) for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand-trap density on the opponent's first board-building activation, then rebuild through the Phantom Knights GY recursion effects into a boss Xyz
• Recovery: GY recursion from Decayed Cloak, Silent Boots and Ancient Cloak, plus Rank-Up-Magic Launch/Requiem to re-establish a Xyz board
• After siding: None: side deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan in the submitted list

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Phantom Knights Level 3 starter: the archetype core (22 copies) has about a 93% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and nine Level 3 starters plus recursion from the GY keep the engine live after disruption. Its interaction is the strongest part of the list, with roughly 22 hand-trap copies and about 96% odds of at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand, so the system can negate or destroy the opponent's first activations. Conversion is weaker than the piece count suggests: no recorded boards exist, the Xyz and Link bosses come from several sub-archetypes (Goblin, Mulcharmy, Fiendsmith, Djinn, Exosister, Lswarm) with only about 21% exact-name purity, and the 23 tech slots dilute the starter density. The score is capped low because the list is illegal (Ash Blossom at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2) and the side deck is empty; popularity and archetype usage were not credited, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); no post-side plan (-3). Final formula: Illegal list: raw 0.80*Structural(58) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) + modifiers(-11) = 45, capped to 35 per the illegal-deck rule; theoretical/structural only (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.07 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core at 22 copies gives high odds of a live starter in the opening hand
• Dense hand-trap and negation suite covers the opponent's first activations on either turn order
• GY recursion from several Phantom Knights monsters keeps the engine alive after disruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: Ash Blossom at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2
• Empty side deck: no post-side plan
• Low exact-name purity (21.4%) and 23 tech slots dilute engine coherence
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• The Ash Blossom copy count must be fixed before any normal score can apply
• Going first depends on hand-trap timing with no proactive starter in some hands

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within OCG size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 3 copies, Semi-Limited limit 2 (over limit); Limited cards Droll & Lock Bird, Fiendsmith Engraver, Foolish Burial, Reinforcement of the Army and S:P Little Knight each at 1 copy; Archetype core 22 copies; exact-name purity 21.4%
• Inferred: P(at least one archetype-core copy in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.93; Hand-trap density implies strong going-second interaction; Brick proxy ≈ 0.07 and conversion read from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; D13 matchup fit is a neutral placeholder
• 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/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Side deck is empty, so post-side behavior cannot be assessed Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample