Dark Magician Deck #761703 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 69/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo
• Format: duel-links

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Fusion pressure from Dark Magician-named bodies (Dark Magicians the Dragon Knight, Dark Magician of Destruction, The Dark Magicians, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Master of Chaos) plus 3000-ATK main-deck bodies (Lava Golem, Timaeus); Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord Xyz and Underworld Goddess Link pressure as additional boards
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Magician's Rod or activate Dark Magical Curtain to put Dark Magician on the field, search a DM-named Spell/Trap, then build toward a Fusion with Timaeus or a Spellcaster as material
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Nibiru (about 50% to have one in opening 6) or Magicians' Combination to stop the opponent's board, then convert with a DM Fusion or Lava Golem
• Recovery: Soul Servant recycles a DM-named card from the GY to the top of the Deck, Magician's Souls draws, Dark Magical Circle and Eternal Soul search again
• After siding: Not applicable: no side deck, single-game format

Why it scores here

The deck is compact: 15 distinct Main Deck cards, with Dark Magician, Magician's Rod and Dark Magical Curtain each at 3 copies, so its starter density is high. About 0.89 of opening 5-card hands on the play contain at least one of the 10 starter-capable copies (DM, Rod, Curtain, Magician's Souls), and 11 searcher-text cards make a search very likely (Inferred hypergeometric). The Extra Deck converts that engine into 2800-3000 ATK Fusion bodies, and the main deck adds interaction (Magicians' Combination, Nibiru, Dark Magic Attack, Eternal Soul). The score is not credited for Dark Magician's popularity, and it is not an average of card scores; the weak points are three Illusion of Chaos copies with no Chaos Form in the list, a Super Starslayer TY-PHON that cannot be summoned from this list, and no recorded boards to confirm the ceiling or median.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 69.3, Going First ≈ 74, Going Second ≈ 67, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 68. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural is Midrange with D13 dropped and weights renormalized over 95

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.08 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• 15 distinct Main Deck cards with 3-of engine pieces (Dark Magician, Magician's Rod, Dark Magical Curtain)
• 11 searcher-text cards: a search in opening 5 is very likely (P=0.92)
• Five DM-required Fusion routes give late-game 2800-3000 ATK boards
• Layered interaction: Magicians' Combination, Nibiru, Illusion of Chaos, Eternal Soul, Dark Magic Attack

Weaknesses

• Illusion of Chaos (3 copies) cannot be Ritual Summoned without a Chaos Form; it is mainly a search hook
• Super Starslayer TY-PHON needs two Level 12 monsters and none are in the Main Deck, so it is a likely dead Extra slot
• Lava Golem and Nibiru are hand-dead early and need opponent-side conditions
• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences

Critical choke points

• Every DM-named Fusion route needs a Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl or DM-named Spell/Trap on the field; losing the starter trio (DM, Rod, Curtain) removes most of the Fusion plan
• Timaeus is the only Dragon in the list, and it is the material for Dragon Knight and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, so one lost Timaeus breaks two Fusion routes (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 30 Main and 9 Extra, within Duel Links size rules, all cards Unlimited with legal_copies 3; Card text and stats for all 15 distinct Main and 9 Extra cards, from the evidence excerpts; Copy histogram: 7 cards at 3 copies, 1 at 2, 7 at 1
• Observed: Usage statistics show the archetype core list (22 rows), which supports that this is a standard DM list; the usage export mis-flags 6 Extra Deck core cards as absent
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter, searcher and hand-trap probabilities (approx 0.89, 0.92, 0.50); Floor, median and ceiling estimates from card text, since no combos were recorded; Going-first and going-second power blends and the interaction read; Dead-slot judgments for Illusion of Chaos (no Chaos Form) and TY-PHON (no Level 12)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link; Side-deck adaptability (neutral 50): Duel Links has no side deck
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference usage_statistics marks 6 Extra Deck core cards (Master of Chaos, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, DM of Destruction, DM the Dragon Knight, The Dark Magicians, Underworld Goddess) as not in this deck although the cards list shows them in the Extra Deck; the core-present figure of 12/21 is understated, and the true figure is 18/21 No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry for this deck or archetype Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Guide snippets are Vietnamese excerpts with section_count 0; one guide (id 1489) has an empty snippet, so no guide-based claim is made