Dark Magician Deck #733792 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Control
• Secondary strategies: none
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Control with Dark Magician engine and protected board; Midrange damage via high‑ATK fusion monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Search Dark Magician or key spells with Magician’s Rod, Dark Magical Circle or Magicians’ Souls, then protect with Eternal Soul and summon a powerful fusion (e.g., Red‑Eyes Dark Dragoon)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom) and board‑breakers (Red‑Eyes Dark Dragoon, Primite Scream) to respond, then establish Dark Magician board
• Recovery: Draw engines (Magicians’ Souls, Eternal Soul) and recursion via banish effects restore resources after disruption
• After siding: Rely on flexible extra‑deck summons; no side‑deck plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens by searching a Dark Magician or a key spell with Magician’s Rod, Dark Magical Circle, or Magicians’ Souls, giving a ~70% chance to get a starter. It can convert that starter into a protected board using Eternal Soul and high‑ATK fusion monsters such as Red‑Eyes Dark Dragoon or The Dark Magicians, providing solid pressure. Multiple draw and recursion loops (Magicians’ Souls, Eternal Soul, Dark Magical Circle) let it survive disruption, though a ~30% brick rate and lack of a side deck limit consistency. Overall the system scores moderate on consistency and interaction but is hampered by filler cards and high complexity, yielding a final contextual power around 53.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: High brick rate (-2); No side deck (-1); Low archetype purity (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.69 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.31 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Strong protection via Eternal Soul
• Multiple draw and recursion engines
• High‑ATK fusion options for pressure

Weaknesses

• High brick probability (~30%)
• Low archetype purity and many filler cards
• No side deck for matchup adaptation

Critical choke points

• Reliance on drawing a Dark Magician starter
• Limited hand‑trap coverage

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Legal; Card text excerpts resolved for all cards
• Inferred: P(at least one core starter in opening 5) ≈ 0.69; Full‑brick proxy ≈30%; Potential best line using Super Polymerization and Dark Magician the Dragon Knight; Median output estimated ~50 without combo data; Redundant draw and protection lines give resilience; Draw engines and recursion improve resource economy; Interaction density includes multiple hand traps and removal cards; Going‑second hand trap chance 25%; Top fusion monsters reach 3000 ATK; Low archetype purity reduces deck efficiency; Extra deck mixes core and unrelated fusions; No side deck present; Complex engine raises error tolerance
• Provisional: Meta power is provisional due to lack of 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