Phantom Beast (Chimera) Deck #775271 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 43/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Xyz bosses (Azamina 4000, Chimera the Illusion Beast 3100, Super Starslayer 2900, Divine Serpent Apophis x2) reached through Chimera Fusion, Gazelle and Berfomet search chains; Apophis / Temple of the Kings trap-set lines that summon Divine Serpent Apophis and Azamina
• Turn 1 (going first): Search and Fusion-summon through Chimera Fusion (3 copies), Gazelle or Berfomet, then extend into a Fusion boss; the 25% opener odds for Chimera Fusion make this line unreliable without a searcher hit
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand to find a hand trap (D.D. Crow x2, Skull Meister x2) to interrupt the opponent, then rebuild through the searcher-heavy main deck
• Recovery: Recover from GY through Apophis serpent recursion, Temple of the Kings and Mulcharmy/Santa Claws draw effects; no recorded recovery lines exist
• After siding: None: the deck runs no side deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a searcher hit (about 0.87 odds of at least one searcher-text card in the opener, Inferred) but only about a 25-30% chance of holding a given Chimera Fusion, so its engine is less accessible than the searcher count suggests. Its conversion is carried by a strong Extra Deck of Fusion and Xyz bosses rather than by recorded boards, since no combos were supplied and the median output stays unmeasured. Interruption resilience is moderate: several independent starters and four hand traps give it more than one route, but a Mask of Restrict in the main deck conflicts with its own Tribute-based summons (Azamina, Divine Serpent Apophis, Mirror Swordknight). Popularity and usage statistics confirmed that the list is a real build of the archetype and were not credited as power, and the score was built from the system rather than by averaging card scores; the absence of a side deck and of any tournament or meta evidence holds the final score down.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: engine_conflict (-2); engine_compactness (-3); no_side_deck (-2); unrecoverable_choke_point (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated meta sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Searcher density is high (18 searcher-text cards; P(>=1 in opener) ~0.87)
• Strong Extra Deck bosses with ATK 2400-4000
• Several independent starters and four hand traps give more than one interruption route
• Legal in OCG with copy limits respected; the only restricted card is Heavy Storm at 1 copy

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptability
• Mask of Restrict conflicts with the deck's own Tribute-based summons
• Main deck is diluted: 55 cards with 36 generic copies and only 5 Chimera-tagged copies
• Extra Deck is spread across unrelated archetype families with 12 of 14 distinct cards at one copy
• No combo, tournament, or win-rate evidence to confirm the engine performs

Critical choke points

• Chimera Fusion x3 as the main starter (P(>=1 in opener) ~0.25 going first)
• Divine Serpent Apophis x2 only reachable through Apophis/Temple tribute or Fusion lines
• Hand-trap dependence on four copies (P(>=1 in hand 6) ~0.38)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal OCG list: 55 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Heavy Storm Limited at 1 copy; Card text for Mask of Restrict, Divine Serpent Apophis, Azamina and Mirror Swordknight; Hypergeometric opener probabilities from the resolved list; Extra Deck composition: 8 Fusion, 7 Xyz
• Inferred: Engine accessibility from opener odds and searcher density; Brick and dead-slot estimates from card text; Floor and ceiling from semantic reads; no recorded boards; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no tournament link or dated meta sample); Meta Power (null)
• 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 exists in YGOVN; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or unknown Meta Power is provisional: no dated metagame sample supplied Evidence inconsistency: usage_statistics marks Chimera the Illusion Beast (38264974) and Chimera the King of Phantom Beasts (1769875) as not in deck, but both appear in cards[] as Extra Deck 1-copy entries. Core presence is reported as 41.7% but is likely about 58% (7 of 12); this evaluation does not rely on the stat for those two cards The single guide (Vietnamese, 2023) covers a Phantom Beast Branded build, not this Chimera/Apophis list, so its relevance is partial