Dark Magician Deck #761860 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 22/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician / Dark Magician the Dragon Knight / Dark Magician of Destruction and Timaeus boards built from the Dark Magician core and Shining Sarcophagus searches; Link and Fusion closers (Underworld Goddess, Selene, Dark Magician Girl-line recursion) once hand-trap protection is up
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Dark Magician Girl or Apprentice Illusion Magician, search a Dark Magician spell or Shining Sarcophagus, then extend into a Link or Fusion closer
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll and Nibiru to answer the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild from Magician's Rod and Soul Servant recursion
• Recovery: Recover the Dark Magician core from the GY via Magicians' Souls-style recursion, Soul Servant and Dark Magical Circle (note: Souls and Called by the Grave are Forbidden, so this line is broken in the submitted list)
• After siding: No side deck is run (side_count 0), so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Dark Magician starter: the 25-copy archetype core has about a 95% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and 18 searchers add further access. Its hand-trap and negation suite (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru) gives it real going-second interaction and layered resilience. Conversion to a closer is plausible through Dark Magician of Destruction, Timaeus and Link monsters, but no recorded boards exist, so ceiling and median are text-only inferences. Popularity and archetype usage were not counted, and the deck was not scored as an average of its card scores. Because the list is illegal (three Forbidden card types and two over-limit Semi-Limited/Limited cards) and has no side deck, the score is capped low and is structural/theoretical only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (approx. 1:0 weight used as the Midrange profile). Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal list: normal formula would give 0.80*56 + 0.20*45 - 12 = 42, but the score is capped at 22 and labelled theoretical/structural-only per rubric Step 2 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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

• Archetype core is dense, so an opening hand almost always has a Dark Magician starter
• Large hand-trap and negation suite supports going second
• Several 2800-3000 ATK boss monsters as closers

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three Forbidden cards and two over-limit cards must be removed
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Only 25% of the main deck shares the exact archetype name, which weakens engine coherence

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician core presence in the opening hand (archetype core)
• Forbidden recursion pieces (Magicians' Souls, Called by the Grave) cannot be legally run

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status with six violations (copy limits and Forbidden cards); Main 57, Extra 15, Side 0 (within size rules, but side is empty); Exact-name archetype purity 25%; Restricted-card banlist statuses
• Inferred: Starter probability 0.95 from 25 archetype-core copies; Hand-trap access 0.81 in going-second 6-card hands; Dimension scores D1 to D11 from text reads and probability estimates
• Provisional: D13 matchup and format fit (no dated meta sample or tournament link); Meta power (null)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional (no dated metagame sample) title is null for the deck