Dark Magician Deck #750852 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• Format: duel-links

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician / Dark Magician Girl recursion and Ritual/Fusion boards that end in 2500–3000 ATK beaters (Master of Chaos, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Underworld Goddess, Super Starslayer TY-PHON); Evolzar Dolkka / Evolzar Lars Xyz boards with negate and removal on material
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dark Magician starter (Soul Servant, Dark Magician, Magicians' Souls, Dark Magician Girl) or a searcher (Preparation of Rites, Senju, Ghost Belle), search a Ritual monster or Dark Magician, and convert into a Ritual or Fusion extra-deck summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold D.D. Crow or Ghost Belle as a hand trap against the opponent's first activation, then rebuild from the Dark Magician GY loop
• Recovery: Soul Servant and Magicians' Souls recycle Dark Magician-named cards from GY/Deck; D.D. Crow and Ghost Belle banish or negate the opponent's key plays
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no sideboard, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: a 30-card main with four 3-copy staples and a 14-copy Dark Magician core opens a live starter in about 97% of 5-card hands (Inferred, hypergeometric). Its ceiling is high because the Extra Deck holds several 2900–3000 ATK boards plus negate and banish effects, and it has a real going-second answer in five hand traps (D.D. Crow, Ghost Belle) with a 70% chance of at least one in a 6-card hand. The median is held back by the archetype split: only 23% of cards are exact Dark Magician names, and the Evol, Diabellstar, Snake-Eye, Knightmare and Chaos pieces are mostly single copies that need different routes, which adds brick risk and lowers the floor. Popularity and the archetype's guide presence did not add points, since archetype usage stats only confirm the core is real and accessible. Card scores were not averaged; the score comes from consistency, interaction and closing power on the list as built, with no meta sample, so Meta Power is provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary; Midrange weights used as written. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Engine conflicts / low archetype purity (-3); Extra Deck redundancy (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*60 + 0.20*55 - 1 = 58

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.03 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Four 3-copy staples plus a 14-copy Dark Magician core give high starter access
• Five hand traps and several negate/banish effects give real going-second interaction
• Extra Deck offers multiple 2900–3000 ATK boards with redundancy

Weaknesses

• Low archetype purity (23%) fragments the engine
• Several single-copy pieces are narrow and can brick
• No recorded boards, so the median output is unknown

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician / Dark Magician Girl must be on board to unlock most Ritual and Fusion routes
• Illusion of Chaos x3 lacks a clearly included ritual route in the list (Chaos Form not present)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 within Duel Links size rules; All 30 main and 9 extra cards are Unlimited; no copy-limit violations; Card text and ATK/DEF values from the evidence excerpts; Archetype core usage statistics (Dark Magician, Magicians' Souls, Soul Servant at 65%+)
• Inferred: P(>=1 starter in 5 cards) ≈ 0.97 from the archetype-core hypergeometric; Going-second hand-trap access ≈ 0.70; Brick and conflict risk from the Evol and single-copy pieces; Illusion of Chaos needs a ritual route not present in this list
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Side-deck score (no sideboard in Duel Links)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck has no title (Deck.Title is null)