Dark Magician Deck #677635 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Stun
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 50 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters reached through the Dark Magician-line engine (Dark Paladin, Master of Chaos, Dark Magician of Destruction, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon); Azamina and Sinful Spoils Fusion lines, plus Timaeus and Diabellstar pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Dark Magician Girl, Magicians' Souls, or Diabellstar to search and summon the Shining Sarcophagus / Dark Magician package; protect the engine with Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Dominus Impulse
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Ghost Belle) to break the opponent's first summon, then convert with Extra Deck monsters
• Recovery: Recurse Dark Magician-line cards from the GY with Magician's Rod, Soul Servant and Magicians' Souls, and rebuild through the searcher effects
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan in the export

Why it scores here

The deck's structural read is about 54 on the Toolbox profile, built from the system rather than from card averages: the engine is accessible through the searchers and Dark Magician-line cards, and the 10 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards give it real interaction density. The Extra Deck (15 cards across Fusion, Synchro and Link) gives it several closing options, but there is no recorded combo data, so the ceiling and median come only from card text and are Inferred. Archetype popularity (the core list is present at about 32% of the stat rows) and the Dark Magician guides confirm the list is real and played, but they did not add points. The score is capped at 30 because the list is Illegal: Called by the Grave is Forbidden and is run once, and the deck has no side deck, so it earns no post-side credit.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (Forbidden card in deck) (-5); Illegal cap (-23). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 0.80*54 + 0.20*50 = 53.2, then capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · 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

• Many searchers (14 text hits) and an accessible engine
• Layered interaction: 10 hand traps, 13 negation-text and 12 removal-text cards
• Compact main deck with a complete Extra Deck spread

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Called by the Grave is Forbidden and is run once
• Empty side deck, so no post-side plan
• Low exact-archetype purity (16.9%); the engine mixes several sub-archetypes
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only estimates

Critical choke points

• Called by the Grave must be removed before the deck is legal
• The Shining Sarcophagus / Dark Magician package as the main starter route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status due to Called by the Grave (Forbidden, 1 copy); Main 50, Extra 15, Side 0 counts; Archetype purity 16.9% exact-name; Extra Deck breakdown: Fusion 9, Synchro 3, Link 3
• Observed: Core archetype cards present in the deck: 8 of 25 core stat rows
• Inferred: Starter probability about 0.82 from the searcher group; Hand-trap second-hand probability about 0.76; Interaction density from text roles; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• 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, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied