Magistus Deck #734530 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Control with Magistus equip‑boss monsters; Board‑breaking via PSY‑Frame and Fusion monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Play hand traps to disrupt opponent, search a Magistus core monster, equip it to a boss monster and establish a strong board.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six‑card hand to flood with hand traps, activate board‑breakers (PSY‑Framegear, Fusion monsters) and then summon a high‑ATK boss.
• Recovery: Mulcharmy draw engines and Droll & Lock Bird provide card advantage; searchers refill Magistus core monsters.
• After siding: No side deck; rely on hand‑trap redundancy and flexible extra‑deck options.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens with at least one Magistus core or hand‑trap in the opening hand (≈94% chance), giving a solid early disruption plan. Its abundant hand traps, negations and draw engines let it survive most interruptions and rebuild resources. High‑ATK boss monsters from the Extra Deck provide strong closing power, while the lack of a side deck and moderate brick risk keep the overall score from being higher.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 68.4, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 68. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Low archetype purity (-1); High decision complexity (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.06 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Very high hand‑trap and negation density
• Strong draw engines (Mulcharmy, Droll)
• Multiple high‑ATK boss monsters in the Extra Deck
• Flexible extra‑deck with many link/fusion options

Weaknesses

• No side deck limits post‑side adaptability
• Moderate brick risk due to many 3‑copy staples
• Lack of recorded combo data lowers confidence in ceiling performance
• Reliance on exact‑name Magistus core for optimal lines

Critical choke points

• Getting a Magistus core monster on the field early
• Maintaining hand‑trap resources after early activations
• Access to the appropriate Extra‑Deck boss for the current board state

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: legality status Legal; card text excerpts for each card; role_hint_tags indicating hand‑trap, negation, removal
• Inferred: engine accessibility from hypergeometric probabilities; brick risk from copy histogram; combo potential from card effects; resource economy from draw engines; interaction quality from counts of removal/negation; going‑second power from hand‑trap density; closing power from boss monster stats; main‑deck efficiency from purity percentage; extra‑deck coverage from breakdown; pilotability from decision complexity
• Provisional: matchup coverage and format fit
• 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