Magistus Deck #701641 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion, Link and Xyz Magistus endboard (Zoroa the Magistus Verethragna, Magistus Chorozo, Invoked Mechaba) backed by Magistus equip and negation text; Fairy Tail pressure through Teller of Fairy Tails, Weaver of Fairy Tails and Fairy Tail - Luna, with Fairy Tail Ball direct-attack support
• Turn 1 (going first): Search or summon a Magistus starter (Spenta, Verre Magic - Lacrima of Light, Fairy Tail - Matchgiru) into a Link or Fusion line while Ash and Droll stay up for the opponent's first response (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand trap (Ash, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll) on the opponent's first activation, then rebuild through searchers and Extra Deck summons (Inferred)
• Recovery: Spenta and Rilliona recursion from GY or banishment, Witchcrafter Genni discard-summon, and Super Polymerization for fusion rebuilds (Inferred)
• After siding: None: the side deck is empty, so no post-side plan can be scored (Provisional)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an engine: its searcher text is dense (15 cards, about 0.91 chance of at least one in an opening hand of 5) and the archetype core group reaches roughly 0.98 in the opening hand, so the starter access score is good but still Inferred from hypergeometric estimates. Its interaction is the strongest part of the system: nine hand traps and a negation-text layer on the Fusion, Link and Xyz endboard make going-second disruption and endboard protection credible. Closing power is real but unmeasured, since no recorded boards exist and the Forbidden and over-limit cards make the list impossible to play as built. The score was not earned from Magistus popularity, from usage statistics, or from averaging the individual card scores; the legality failure caps the final score at 30 and the result is structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); no side deck (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap: min(0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers, 30); Meta Power provisional (null). Raw value 0.80*60 + 0.20*48 - 12 = 45.6, capped to 30.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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

• Nine hand traps and a negation-text layer give strong going-second interaction (Inferred)
• Three Extra Deck routes (Fusion, Link, Xyz) reach Magistus endboards with broad material coverage (Verified)
• Searcher density of 15 cards gives high opening-hand access to engine pieces (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: three Forbidden cards and six copies over the copy limit (Verified)
• No side deck, so there is no best-of-3 plan (Verified)
• No recorded boards, so combo floor and median are unmeasured (Provisional)
• Hybrid archetype spread (Magistus 14, Fairy Tail 10, Mulcharmy 3) weakens engine coherence (Observed)

Critical choke points

• Spenta and Verre Magic (3 copies each) carry the Magistus starter role; losing them to a single interruption strands the Extra Deck route (Inferred)
• Ash Blossom and Droll are both needed for going-second interaction, but both are over the limit and cannot be run as built (Verified)
• Charmer Quartet in Bloom is Forbidden, so any plan that leans on its Extra Deck summon is unavailable (Verified)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom x3, Super Polymerization x3, Droll x2 over limit; Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent and Charmer Quartet in Bloom are Forbidden; Main 41 (legal range 40-60), Extra 15 (legal max 15), Side 0; Card text for Verethragna, Mechaba, Chorozo and the negation or hand-trap cards as supplied in the evidence
• Observed: Archetype spread across Magistus, Fairy Tail and Mulcharmy from the card list
• Inferred: Starter access from hypergeometric estimates (0.91 searcher group, 0.98 core group, 0.33 per 3-copy starter); Going-second interaction from hand-trap group probability (about 0.80); Dimension scores D1 through D11 and D14 from card text and composition
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated meta sample); Matchup fit (D13) and tournament reliability; Post-side plan (D12), since the side deck is empty
• 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 for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Side deck empty: no post-side evaluation possible