Dark Magician Deck #762071 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Fusion, Ritual, Link
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 8 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion-summoned Dark Magician bosses (Dark Magician the Knight of Dragon Magic, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, The Dark Magicians) and Master of Chaos banishing the opponent's field, backed by Dark Magician ATK pressure; Quintet Magician (5 Spellcasters with different names) destroying all opponent cards, plus Dark Magician of Destruction and Timaeus the United Magical Dragon
• Turn 1 (going first): Magicians' Souls, Apprentice Illusion Magician or Magician's Rod search a Dark Magician or a Spell that names it (Dark Magical Circle, Eternal Soul, Dark Magic Talisman), then convert via Dark Magical Circle or Preparation of Rites into a Fusion or Ritual boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand of six supports the same search chains; Dark Magic Talisman and Illusion of Chaos give response-based negation; Dark Magic Attack and Thousand Knives clear backrow and monsters while a Dark Magician is controlled
• Recovery: Graveyard recursion through Magicians' Souls, Soul Servant, Magikuriboh and Dark Magician Girl's GY ATK boost; Eternal Soul protects Dark Magicians from opponent effects
• After siding: None: the deck runs 0 side cards, so no post-side plan exists in the list

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Dark Magician engine: the archetype core group has about a 95% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and 16 searcher-text cards make the search chain redundant across turns. Conversion into a boss depends on Fusion and Ritual steps that the text supports but that no recorded board confirms, so the ceiling is text-based Inferred output and the median is not measured. Interaction is real but not dense (removal and negation text on about 17 cards, zero hand traps and zero floodgates), so it earns moderate end-board credit and no going-second bonus beyond that. The deck scores 0 on side-deck adaptability because it runs no side cards, and its 50% exact-name purity and off-archetype Chaos and Timaeus support lower engine coherence. The score comes from consistency, redundant starters, and end-board power on the system, not from Dark Magician's popularity, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange profile only; Combo secondary disclosed but not blended, since no boards exist to support a Combo weight. Structural ≈ 61.1, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 57. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Engine split (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional): 0.80*61.1 + 0.20*57 = 60.3, then modifiers -3 = 57

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Five redundant 3-copy starters with two-card search chains give a high chance of a live opening
• Multiple Fusion and Ritual bosses with 2800-4500 ATK and end-board effects
• Removal and negation text across Dark Magic Attack, Thousand Knives, Talisman and Illusion of Chaos
• No dependence on a single Extra Deck card

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side plan in best-of-3
• Only 50% exact-name purity; Chaos and Timaeus splash lowers engine coherence
• Zero hand traps or floodgates, so the deck has no answer to opposing going-second interaction
• Many Dark Magician-conditioned effects fail if the Dark Magician leaves the field

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician must be on the field for Dark Magic Attack and Thousand Knives
• Fusion bosses need Dark Magician as material, so a board without it stalls the Extra Deck plan

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel with 40 main, 8 extra, 0 side within size rules [40,60]/[0,15]/[0,15]; all cards Unlimited; 21 distinct main cards and copy histogram 1:9, 2:5, 3:7; archetype purity 50%; Card stats for Extra Deck bosses (ATK/DEF/Level/Link); Hand-trap and floodgate counts are 0
• Inferred: P(at least one core-group card in 5-card hand) = 0.95; Starter redundancy and interruption resilience; Floor, median and ceiling from text only; End-board interaction density from removal and negation text; Offensive closing power from boss ATK and effects
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup coverage and format fit (D13 placeholder 50); Tournament reliability inputs without any tournament data
• 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 for going-first/second, matchup, or brick/starter rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage statistics flags Master of Chaos, Dark Magician of Destruction, Timaeus the United Magical Dragon and Miasma Necromancer as not in deck, contradicting cards[] which lists them in the Extra Deck; the core-usage read is unreliable deck.title is null, so the deck name is unknown no side deck: post-side plan cannot be assessed