Magical Musket Deck #711366 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Tempo
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Magical Musket board pressure: Musket Spell/Trap activations summon Musket monsters and Link/Fusion monsters convert the resulting board into attack and negation; Fiendsmith Fusion and Link boards (Fiendsmith's Lacrima, Agnumday, Requiem) and Radiant Typhoon tempo plays with Mystical Space Typhoon
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Magical Musketeer Starfire or Caspar, chain a Musket Spell/Trap for a Musket follow-up, then Link Summon Magical Musket Mastermind Caspar or Max from the Extra Deck
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Maxx C and Dominus Purge or Spark as hand interaction, then rebuild a Musket board through Musket Spell/Trap responses
• Recovery: Musket monsters returned from the Graveyard by Musketeer Calamity and Doc, plus Fiendsmith Engraver recursion, rebuild the board after a single interruption
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. It reliably opens a Magical Musket board: the Musket core is present in about 78% of opening hands for going-first (Inferred, from the Musket core count), and the Musket Spell/Trap chain plus Musket Link Monsters give it a readable plan. Its interaction package (Maxx C, Dominus Purge, Dominus Spark, Musket Last Stand, Cross-Domination) is broad, which earns credit for end-board quality. The score is held down because the list is Illegal: Radiant Typhoon Chant runs two copies against a limit of one, and Called by the Grave and Geonator Transverser are Forbidden in OCG. Because the list is illegal, this score is theoretical and structural only. The deck also splits across three related archetypes (only about 35% of its cards are exact Magical Musket names), has no Side Deck, and has no recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inferences. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype's presence in the usage statistics confirms that the list is real, not that it is strong.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Combo secondary (approx. 80/20 by weight). Structural ≈ 47.6, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); illegal_structural_cap (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*47.6 + 0.20*40 = 46.1, then modifiers (-8, -3) = 35.1, rounded to 35; Illegal list so theoretical/structural only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.22 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Broad layered interaction: Maxx C, two Dominus traps, Musket Last Stand and Cross-Domination
• Multiple Link Summon routes from the Extra Deck, with 11 Link Monsters
• Musket recursion (Calamity, Doc) and Fiendsmith Engraver give a second route after an interruption
• Strong late-game bodies: Fonix (3000 ATK), Zakiel (2500 ATK)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three copy and ban violations
• Three related archetypes with only about 35% exact-name Musket cards, which weakens engine coherence
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan
• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median are text-only estimates

Critical choke points

• Musket board depends on at least one Musket monster in hand or Deck; the core is missing from about 22% of going-first opening hands
• Link Summons depend on a Fiend LIGHT monster and Musket monsters on the field

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality violations: Radiant Typhoon Chant copies over the limit, Called by the Grave Forbidden, Geonator Transverser Forbidden; Main Deck size 40 and Extra Deck 15 counts; Card stats and text from the resolved card list; Archetype usage: 100% inclusion for the Musket Doc and Starfire core
• Inferred: Musket core access of about 78% in a 5-card opening hand; Brick and conflict risk from three archetypes; Interaction density from card text (negation, removal); Post-going-second plan shape from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample is supplied; Format fit (D13) is provisional
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck is recorded, so post-side performance cannot be assessed