Dark Magician Deck #759472 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual and Link board presence led by Light and Darkness Ritual monsters (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Magician of Dark Chaos) and Dark Magician-named attackers, if the list were legal; Azamina and Sinful Spoils Fusion lines (Azamina Mu Rcielago), gated by the forbidden Azamina Ilia Silvia
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Light and Darkness Ritual or a Diabellstar/Mulcharmy starter, use searchers (Mind Shuffle, Skull Archfiend, Magicians' Souls-style draws) to find the ritual monster, and keep Ash Blossom up for the first interruption
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Kuriboh and Ghost Ogre to stop the opponent's first starter, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draws and Pot of Sloth
• Recovery: Recover through Light and Darkness Ritual's GY recursion, Skull Archfiend of Chaos from the GY, and Mulcharmy draw effects; the recovery depends on Ritual monsters that are cumbersome to Tribute
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan in this list; a legal 15-card side would be needed to adjust matchups

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in TCG: it runs 58 Main and 16 Extra (one over the 15 cap), and it carries three over-limit copies of Ash Blossom, three of WANTED, two of Droll, plus seven Forbidden cards. Its structural read is therefore theoretical only. The system shows a reasonable opening-hand ability: the searcher group reaches at least one of 20 searcher-text cards in a 5-card opening hand about 89% of the time (Inferred), and the 17-copy archetype core has about 84% chance of at least one in hand (Inferred). Interaction is its strongest area, with six hand traps, eight negation texts and sixteen removal texts; that interaction is what would let it stop a first turn. Consistency and conversion are held back by three engines (Light and Darkness Ritual, Mulcharmy, Azamina/Sinful Spoils) that share only the Dark Magician name, with 70 off-archetype copies, and by a Side Deck of zero. There are no recorded boards, so the floor and median are estimates. Popularity was not credited, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary (Toolbox secondary, not blended into the numbers). Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 46. Modifiers: banlist and copy-limit exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: unclamped 0.80*Structural(53) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(46) + modifiers(-12) = 40, then capped at 25 because the deck is Illegal (Meta Provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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 interaction: six hand traps, eight negation texts, sixteen removal texts
• High searcher density (20 searcher-text cards), so the starter is usually reachable
• Multiple attack bodies at 2500–3000 ATK across the ritual and archetype cards

Weaknesses

• Illegal in TCG: Extra Deck over limit, copy overruns and seven Forbidden cards
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Engines conflict; only 4 of 74 Main-plus-Extra copies are exact Dark Magician names
• No recorded combos, so conversion and floor are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Forbidden Azamina Ilia Silvia and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon anchor the Azamina and Red-Eyes lines
• Light and Darkness Ritual is the single ritual-spell route to the main attackers
• Three copies of Ash Blossom plus two Droll exceed the legal copy caps

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Extra 16 over limit; 10 copy violations; 7 Forbidden cards run; Banlist status of Ash Blossom (Semi-Limited), WANTED (Limited), Droll (Limited); Side Deck count is 0
• Inferred: Searcher and core hypergeometric probabilities; Hand-trap probability going second; Interaction and offense ratings from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second and matchup rates are unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null