Dark Magician Deck #718140 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 66/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Control
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Summon a high‑ATK Fusion/Link monster such as Red‑Eyes Dark Dragoon or Dark Magician the Dragon Knight; Control the board with hand traps and negation effects
• Turn 1 (going first): Search Dark Magician with Magician's Rod or Dark Magical Circle, activate Eternal Soul, then use Secrets of Dark Magic or Fusion spells to bring out a powerful Fusion/Link monster
• Turn 2 (going second): Deploy hand traps like Effect Veiler or Nibiru to disrupt opponent, then use the same search‑fusion chain to establish a strong board
• Recovery: Use Magicians' Souls and The Dark Magicians draw effects, plus Eternal Soul recycling, to regain hand advantage after disruption
• After siding: No side deck; rely on in‑game hand‑trap flexibility and extra‑deck options

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens with a Dark Magician or related searcher in almost every hand (p≈0.997), allowing its core engine to activate by turn 2. It can convert that starter into a high‑ATK Fusion or Link monster, giving strong offensive pressure, while hand traps and negation cards provide solid interruption resilience. Resource loops from Magicians' Souls and Eternal Soul keep the deck from grinding out, but the heavy reliance on many off‑archetype cards and the lack of a side deck reduce efficiency and pilotability. No tournament data is available, so matchup fit is provisional. Overall the system is consistent and powerful enough to score in the mid‑high 60s.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 68, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

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

Strengths

• Very high chance to open core engine
• Powerful high‑ATK Fusion/Link finishers
• Multiple hand‑trap and negation tools for disruption
• Robust draw and recycling loops

Weaknesses

• Low archetype purity; many off‑archetype cards increase variance
• No side deck limits adaptability to specific matchups
• Complex engine may be error‑prone for casual pilots

Critical choke points

• If core searchers (Magician's Rod, Dark Magical Circle) are missing, engine stalls
• Reliance on Eternal Soul staying on field; removal can cripple the plan

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Side deck count 0
• Inferred: Core opening probability; Brick estimate; Engine conversion potential; Resource loops; End‑board strength; Going‑second hand‑trap probability; Main deck efficiency assessment; Extra deck coverage; Pilotability assessment
• Provisional: Matchup coverage without tournament data
• 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) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied