Dark Magician Deck #756706 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Control
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 13 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician / Light and Darkness Ritual boards (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Magician of Dark Chaos) backed by Link and Fusion Extra Deck monsters; Azamina and Diabellstar pressure through Sinful Spoils searches (partly dependent on Forbidden cards)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search via Ash-style interaction and Mulcharmy/Griffoh draw and search lines toward a Light and Darkness Ritual or Dark Magician starter; the legal list lacks several of its own named enablers
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Dominus Impulse) plus Pot of Sloth-style card draw to rebuild after the opponent's board
• Recovery: Gy recursion through Skull Archfiend of Chaos and Ragged Records of Rites into Ritual Summons
• After siding: Not evaluable: side deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The list cannot be scored as a normal legal deck: it runs 9 Forbidden cards and 4 cards over their Limited or Semi-Limited copy caps, so per the legality rule the score is capped at 20 and the evaluation is structural-only. The structural read is that the list has real interaction density (6 hand traps, 9 negation-text cards) and a useful Extra Deck (11 Link, 4 Fusion), with a searcher-heavy Main Deck (P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opening) ≈ 0.82, Inferred). Its engine, however, spans several sub-archetypes (only 2.7% of Main Deck copies are exact Dark Magician-name cards, with 73 off-archetype copies), which lowers coherence and brick tolerance. No combo boards were recorded, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences and no combo power is credited. Popularity of the Dark Magician archetype and the 3-copy hand traps did not earn points on their own, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox primary with Combo secondary; no weighted blend computed because the Illegal cap replaces the normal formula. Structural ≈ 40, Going First ≈ 35, Going Second ≈ 30, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); copy-limit overage (-4); illegal legality cap (-7). Final formula: Illegal deck: 0.80*Structural(40) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 39 before modifiers; modifiers -12 gives 27; Illegal cap applied, final 20 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

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

Strengths

• Dense hand-trap and negation suite (6 hand traps, 9 negation-text cards)
• Searcher-heavy Main Deck with about 0.82 odds of at least one searcher in an opening hand (Inferred)
• Full 15-card Extra Deck of Link and Fusion monsters with several boss options

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 9 Forbidden cards and 4 over-limit copies
• Engine is spread across several sub-archetypes (2.7% exact-name purity)
• Empty side deck gives no post-side plan
• No recorded combos, so the ceiling and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual setup depends on a small number of enablers that are partly Forbidden
• Hand-trap density is shared between Ash Blossom and Droll, which are both over the limit

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 9 Forbidden cards and 4 over-limit cards present; Main Deck 60 and Extra Deck 15 are within the tcg size rules; Side deck is empty (0 cards); Searcher-text group probability 0.8237 for a 5-card hand
• Inferred: Consistency estimate (D1, D2) from hypergeometric draws and card text; Interaction density (D7) from hand-trap and negation text; Strategy classification as Toolbox with Combo secondary
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13), no tournament data
• Data gaps: Illegal list: a normal Final Contextual score cannot be assigned until the Forbidden and over-limit cards are removed no combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN no side deck, so post-side performance is unknown no deck title