Dark Magician Deck #756771 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Link
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Fusion/Link boards led by Dark Magician-named monsters (Dark Magician of Destruction, Master of Chaos, Zenna/Selene/Accesscode link bodies), theoretical only because the list is illegal; Kashtira and Red-Eyes beatsticks, both of which are blocked by the banlist in this list
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Dark Magician engine card with Dark Magician Girl, Soul Servant, Magician's Rod or Dark Magical Curtain, then use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence) to protect the line; the list has no verified combo steps
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird) to break the opponent's board, then convert with Fusion or Link Summons; the list has no recorded boards to confirm this
• Recovery: Recursion from GY through Dark Magical Circle, Soul Servant and Magician's Salvation, with Infinite Impermanence and Called by the Grave as negation (Called by the Grave is Forbidden here)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has zero Side Deck cards

Why it scores here

This deck is scored as a theoretical, structural-only read because the list is illegal: it runs 7 copy-limit violations, including three Forbidden cards (Kashtira Fenrir x3, Magicians' Souls x2, Called by the Grave x1) and two more Forbidden Extra Deck cards (Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon). The Dark Magician engine is dense enough to find a starter most of the time (P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.94), and 11 hand traps plus 16 negation-text cards give it real interaction. Consistency is weakened by a low archetype purity of 25% (19 exact-name copies out of 75 non-Extra cards... see composition) and by 0 Side Deck cards, so it has no post-side plan. No recorded boards, guides or tournament data exist, so the combo ceiling and floor are text-only inference and Meta Power stays null. The score was not produced by averaging card scores or by the Dark Magician archetype's popularity; the legality cap holds it at 30 regardless of the structural read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); illegal deck cap (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(50) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 48 (Meta provisional); Context modifiers -12 (banlist exposure); Illegal-deck cap applied -> 30

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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 searcher text (25 cards) gives a high chance of finding a starter
• 11 hand traps and 16 negation-text cards give layered interaction
• Archetype core is well represented (22 copies, P(open at least one) ≈ 0.91)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: seven copy-limit violations, three of them Forbidden
• Low exact-archetype purity (25%) across Dark Magician, Kashtira, Prophecy, Chaos and other sub-archetypes
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combos, guides or tournament data to verify the line

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician starter access depends on searchers that are split across several sub-archetypes
• Forbidden Kashtira Fenrir and Magicians' Souls are removed entirely by the legal fix, which may break the Kashtira and Magician lines they support

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 60, Extra 15, Side 0; main within the 40–60 range; Seven copy-limit violations and Forbidden status for Kashtira Fenrir, Magicians' Souls, Called by the Grave, Charmer Quartet in Bloom and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon; Archetype purity 25.3% (19 of 75 non-Extra copies match the exact archetype name)
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.94 (hypergeometric); Interaction density from 11 hand traps and 16 negation-text cards; Going-second hand-trap availability ≈ 0.72
• Provisional: Matchup fit and meta position (no dated meta sample); Tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• 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 and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck cards, so post-side adaptation cannot be evaluated