Dark Magician Deck #728554 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Dark Magician — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon boss monsters (Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Hecahands Xeno) and establish protected board; Control via Eternal Soul and hand traps then beat down
• Turn 1 (going first): Open searcher/starter to fusion summon Dragoon or Hecahands fusion with negation/protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps and board pieces to break and establish own fusion boss
• Recovery: Soul Servant, Eternal Soul, Magicians' Souls recycle and special summon from GY/Deck
• After siding: No side deck; relies on main deck consistency

Why it scores here

This deck is evaluated as a connected combo-control system mixing Dark Magician and Hecahands fusion engines, not as an average of individual card scores. Consistency is supported by multiple searchers and a ~0.82 chance to open a core piece, but split sub-archetypes and many singleton tech cards raise brick risk. Ceiling boards include Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon or Hecahands Xeno with negation and protection, yet median output is likely a single fusion plus hand traps given no parsed combo data. Interaction is layered via negation/removal text and hand traps, but going-second power is modest and the absence of a side deck hurts best-of-3 reliability; archetype popularity and usage stats did not by themselves add points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Split engine coherence (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.18 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Multiple searchers and special summoners across two engines
• Fusion bosses with negation and protection (Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight)
• Decent hand trap density for interaction

Weaknesses

• Split Dark Magician / Hecahands engines reduce main deck coherence
• No side deck limits best-of-3 adaptability
• Missing some common meta hand traps like Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Triple Tactics Talent

Critical choke points

• Reliance on Level 6/7 monsters for Metamorphosis and fusion materials
• Extra deck fusion monsters require specific sub-archetype materials

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Legal; Card text for all listed cards; Banlist status of Called by Grave Limited, Maxx C Semi-Limited; Extra deck breakdown 11 fusion 4 xyz
• Observed: Usage statistics show archetype core inclusion rates; Hypergeometric probabilities computed from deck list
• Inferred: Consistency estimates from probabilities; Combo ceiling from card text semantic reads; Going-second power from hand trap density; Opening hand quality from copy histogram
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup coverage (no tournament link)
• 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