Magistus Deck #730808 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 28/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 47 / Extra 18 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon through Magistus/Fairy Tail engines with equip-based board setup; Ritual Summon via Nekroz lines or direct damage via Fairy Tail direct-attack enabler
• Turn 1 (going first): Establish Fusion board (Magistus Chorozo or Zoroa Verethragna) with hand traps and soft interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Mulcharmy Fuwalos draw engine and board breakers (Super Polymerization, removal) to clear opponent board and pivot to own offense
• Recovery: Recursion from GY (Fairy Tail - Snow, Nekroz of Catastor) and equip-based resource loops via Magistus searchers
• After siding: No side deck supplied; cannot evaluate post-side adaptation

Why it scores here

This Magistus deck is illegal in Master Duel due to an 18-card Extra Deck exceeding the 15-card limit, making it unplayable in format. Structurally, the deck attempts a hybrid Magistus-Fairy Tail Fusion strategy with Nekroz ritual lines, but suffers from inconsistent engine coherence: 28 core archetype copies (only 24.6% exact Magistus) diluted across Fairy Tail, Nekroz, and Mulcharmy sub-engines create conflicting Normal Summon requirements and redundant searchers competing for slots. Hypergeometric consistency shows a 99.2% chance of opening at least one starter, but hand quality is poor—multiple 3-of copies of similar 4-level searchers (Luna, Matchgiru, Spenta) generate brick risk, and the 47-card main deck compounds this. Median combo output is modest: without parsed boards, inferred lines likely produce 2–3 summons and 1–2 negations via Chorozo or Zoroa, insufficient to close games reliably. Going-second tech (Mulcharmy draw, Super Polymerization) provides some board-breaking capacity, but the lack of a side deck and illegality render the evaluation theoretical only. Popularity and meta-share did not earn points; this score reflects systemic deck construction failure.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.7. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Illegality (Extra Deck oversize) (-12); Engine dilution penalty (-4); Deck size inefficiency (-3). Final formula: Illegal-deck penalty: 0.80*Structural (48) + 0.20*TournamentReliability (35) - 12 (illegality cap) ≈ 28

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.65 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.08 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High hand-trap density (6 copies: Ash, Droll, Maxx C) enables interaction and going-second disruption
• Searcher redundancy (19 searcher-text cards) ensures consistent engine access despite deck oversizing
• Fairy Tail direct-attack enabler + Mulcharmy draw engine provide alternative resource generation routes
• Multiple Fusion/Ritual/Link summon paths offer some flexibility in disruption recovery
• Going-second board-breaking tech (Super Polymerization, removal suite) provides realistic outs to established boards

Weaknesses

• Illegal Extra Deck size (18 > 15) makes the deck unplayable in Master Duel format
• 47-card main deck creates severe brick risk and consistency degradation despite high starter probability
• Conflicting Normal Summon requirements across Magistus (Spenta), Fairy Tail (Luna, Matchgiru), and Mulcharmy engines clog hand slots
• Modest combo ceiling (~2–3 summons, 1–2 negations) insufficient for format-level power; Magistus and Fairy Tail boards lack resilient layering
• No parsed combos and missing core high-inclusion cards (Zoroa Verethragna 90%, Magistus Chorozo 80%, Weaver of Fairy Tails 70%) indicate deviation from archetype standard
• Tournament reliability severely hindered by single-choke-point lines and lack of post-side adaptation (no side deck provided)
• Nekroz ritual lines (6 copies, ~13%) consume graveyard space without clear payoff; Avance and Emilia are utility, not core

Critical choke points

• No side deck supplied: impossible to evaluate best-of-3 adaptation; going-second plan static
• Extra Deck oversize: entire deck is theoretical/unplayable in Master Duel
• Fusion Summon reliance: if Fusion output is disrupted (e.g., Ash on searcher or Super Poly negated), board collapses to single hand trap or recursion
• Mulcharmy Fuwalos activation timing: requires empty field, making it dead in opening hand; no guaranteed way to empty field T1 other than board wipe

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status: Illegal (Extra Deck 18 > 15); Main Deck size: 47 cards; Extra Deck size: 18 cards (8 Fusion, 6 Link, 3 XYZ, 1 Synchro); Restricted cards: Called by the Grave, Crossout Designator, Fairy Tail - Snow (all Limited, legal copies respected); Droll & Lock Bird, Super Polymerization (Semi-Limited, legal copies respected); Archetype core: 16 exact Magistus copies; 24.6% archetype purity; 64% of core cards (16/25) present; Hand trap count: 6 copies (Ash 3x, Droll 2x, Maxx C 1x); Searcher count: 19 cards with searcher-text hints
• Observed: Usage statistics show 64% core-card presence (16 of 25 high-inclusion cards); missing Zoroa Verethragna (90%), Magistus Chorozo (80%), Weaver of Fairy Tails (70%) signals non-standard build
• Inferred: P(≥1 starter opening hand 5) ≈ 0.99 via hypergeometric model on 28 core copies; Brick rate ~8% due to 47-card main and redundant searchers; conflicts between Normal Summon requirements (Luna, Matchgiru, Spenta all Level 4 Spellcasters); Combo ceiling inferred from card text: Zoroa Verethragna 2900 ATK + equip loop + Fusion Summon = ~4–5 summons, 1–2 negations; Combo floor: single searcher chain + 1 Fusion Summon = ~2–3 summons, 0–1 negation; Going-second hand-trap opening P(≥1 in hand 6) ≈ 0.58 from 6 hand-trap copies; Interaction quality from D7: Chorozo/Zoroa boards produce 1 attack negation + equip-based soft lock; interaction density ~1–2 (inferred from semantic read of negation text and end-board layout)
• Provisional: Meta Power: null (no dated metagame sample supplied; archetype-level meta-share unknown for Master Duel); Matchup win rates: unknown; archetype popularity in Master Duel meta unavailable; Tournament Reliability: inferred from consistency + post-side plan (unavailable) + brick rate; score ~35 due to lack of side deck and single-choke-point lines
• Data gaps: No combo data supplied: no parsed boards, no best line PowerIndex, no board per starter frequency distribution, no going-first vs going-second split No tournament link: archetype meta-share, per-pilot match record, and format-level win rates unavailable No side deck: post-side adaptation and best-of-3 plan cannot be evaluated No win-rate telemetry: brick rate, opening hand quality, matchup variance, and game-level performance are not measured by YGOVN; all consistency claims are Inferred Combo output unknown: without parsed boards, median and floor outputs are text-only inferences from card text and archetype design patterns