Phantom Knights Deck #775146 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz/Link boss stacking into 2500-3000 ATK Xyz bosses (Dark Requiem, Arc Rebellion, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS, Dark Rebellion, Evilswarm Ophion) after Phantom Knights monsters are Special Summoned; Rank-Up-Magic chains (Requiem / Force) into Dark Rebellion Four Heavenly Dragons or Raider's Knight, with Mulcharmy card advantage as a grind backup
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Phantom Knights starter (Doomed Soleret, Torn Scales, Decayed Cloak, Silent Boots), search or Special Summon a second Phantom Knights monster, then build toward a DARK Xyz boss; Effect Veiler / Ash / Droll held up for interruptions
• Turn 2 (going second): Use 13 hand traps (Nibiru, Effect Veiler, Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll, Infinite Impermanence) and Solemn Judgment / Solemn Strike to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Phantom Knights Xyz/Link
• Recovery: Banish Phantom Knights monsters from the GY (Silent Boots, Decayed Cloak, Stained Greaves) to re-summon and search, and recycle Mulcharmy draws to refill the hand
• After siding: None: the list runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan; the deck relies on its Main Deck hand traps and Solemn/Harpie/Crossout interaction for every matchup

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Phantom Knights starter: the archetype core (21 copies) has about a 0.92 chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and the four level-3 starters give several independent entry points. Conversion is the main upside, with 11 Xyz and 4 Link extra-deck options reaching 2500-3000 ATK bosses, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling is text-only and Inferred. Survival is the deck's strongest area: 13 hand traps, 21 negation-text cards and several Trap-based answers give it layered interaction, especially when going second (about 0.82 chance of a hand trap in a 6-card hand). Its weaknesses are a 55-card main with only 38.6% exact-archetype purity (23 tech/generic slots), conflicting conditions between Mulcharmy, Doomed Soleret and Silent Boots, and a zero-card Side Deck that leaves no post-side plan. Score is from the system (consistency, interaction, and boss power together), not from averaging card scores, and not from the archetype's stats (48% core present, 52-83% inclusion) which only confirm the list is real and accessible.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 70% Midrange / 30% Control; D13 dropped and re-normalised over the remaining 94.4 weight (meta-neutral). Structural ≈ 64.2, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-2); Engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(meta-neutral, 64.2) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(52) + ContextModifiers(-4); Meta Power provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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

• Layered interaction: 13 hand traps and 21 negation-text cards, with multiple Solemn and Trap answers
• Broad starter access: about 0.92 chance of a Phantom Knights core card in an opening 5
• Strong Xyz/Link boss options with 2500-3000 ATK and Rank-Up ladder to upgrade boss
• Redundant recursion from the GY and Mulcharmy card draw

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck: no post-side plan in best-of-3
• Low exact-archetype purity (38.6%) and 23 tech/generic slots dilute the engine
• Hand traps and conditional summons are dead cards in some opening hands
• Starter conflicts between Mulcharmy (empty field) and Phantom Knights monsters (field presence)

Critical choke points

• Phantom Knights starter count in the opening hand (only 0.25 per 3-copy starter)
• Limited restrictions on Solemn Judgment, Droll & Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster and S:P Little Knight
• Dependence on the hand traps being live during the opponent's first turn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in OCG: 55 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, all 9 restricted cards within copy limits; Card text and stats for all 45 distinct cards; Archetype core inclusion stats (52-83%) and 48% core present
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.92 from hypergeometric draw odds; Interaction quality and going-second board breaking from card text and hand-trap counts; Xyz/Link ceiling from card text (no recorded boards); Pilotability and brick rate estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit (no dated metagame sample or tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor/median/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 and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck in the list, so D12 cannot be evaluated from data