Phantom Beast (Chimera) Deck #775279 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 46 / Extra 23 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Link pressure from a Hecahands / Chimera / Illusion board, with Hecahands Xeno, Guardian Chimera and Chimera the King of Phantom Beasts as the large-body finishers (structural read, Inferred); Stun-style disruption: 10 hand traps and 18 negation-text cards protect the engine and attack the opponent's setup (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Nightmare Apprentice, Gazelle, Sengenjin or Hecahands Ibtel to search Chimera Fusion or a Hecahands starter, then Fusion Summon a Hecahands or Chimera body (Inferred from text; no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C or Solemn cards to answer the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild through Hecahands recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Hecahands Yadel, Hecahands Tartaros and Cornfield Coatl recover searches and monsters from the GY; Gazelle and Berfomet add replacement starters (Inferred)
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan (data gap)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a starter in about 80% of opening hands (archetype core group P≥1 in 5 cards ≈ 0.80, Inferred), and its Nightmare Apprentice, Gazelle, Sengenjin and Hecahands Ibtel searchers add redundancy. Its interaction is the strongest part of the system: 10 hand traps and 18 negation-text cards give high layered disruption (D7 70), and the second-player hand has a ~79% chance of holding at least one hand trap. Closing power is credible from Guardian Chimera (3300/3300) and Hecahands Xeno (3400/3500), but no recorded boards exist, so the median and ceiling are text-only estimates and are scored low (D3 40, D4 35). The score is capped because the list is illegal: Cross-Sheep is Forbidden and the Extra Deck holds 23 cards against a limit of 15, and the deck runs no Side Deck. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox weights only; Midrange recorded as secondary label, not blended. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Illegal construction (-10); Banlist exposure (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap (theoretical/structural-only): 0.80*Structural(48) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) + modifiers(-12) ≈ 35; Meta provisional, not used

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · 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: about 10 hand traps and 18 negation-text cards, with a ~79% chance of a hand trap in the going-second hand (Inferred)
• Searcher density: 17 searcher-text cards give ~91% chance of at least one searcher in 5 cards (Inferred)
• High-body finishers in the Extra Deck, including Guardian Chimera 3300/3300 and Hecahands Xeno 3400/3500 (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Forbidden Cross-Sheep and 23 Extra Deck cards against a limit of 15 (Verified)
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan (Verified)
• Low archetype purity: 0% exact-name, 69 off-archetype copies across ~18 sub-archetypes (Verified)
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be measured (data gap)

Critical choke points

• The Chimera Fusion and Hecahands search lines depend on a few Extra Deck materials; a single disrupted starter stops the line (Inferred)
• Hand-trap timing windows must be held in hand, so the deck gives up board presence to keep interaction (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Cross-Sheep is Forbidden with 1 copy run (legal copies 0); Extra Deck 23 exceeds the OCG maximum of 15; Main Deck 46 cards is within 40–60; Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts are within legal limits; Side Deck is empty
• Inferred: Starter P≥1 in 5 cards ≈ 0.80; Hand-trap P≥1 in 6 going second ≈ 0.79; Interaction density is high from text flags; Searcher density gives ~91% P≥1 in hand of 5
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated metagame sample); Matchup coverage
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and match record absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchups or brick rates no Side Deck supplied, so post-side plan cannot be evaluated Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied