Dark Magician Deck #762302 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss (Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon 3000 ATK, Master of Chaos, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, The Dark Magicians) reached through the Dark Magician / Magician's Rod / Illusion of Chaos / Dark Magical Curtain engine; Dark Magician Girl and Dark Magician beatdown, supported by Soul Servant and Dark Magical Circle searches
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dark Magician, Magician's Rod or Dark Magical Curtain starter, search Dark Magical Circle or Magicians' Souls for a second Dark Magician piece, then fusion or link into a boss while holding Eternal Soul or Magicians' Combination to protect the board
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Nibiru, Magicians' Combination, Illusion of Chaos and Eternal Soul as hand traps or negations to slow the opponent's board, then rebuild a boss from the Dark Magician pieces that survive
• Recovery: Recover through Soul Servant and Magicians' Souls draws, Dark Magical Circle searches, and Magician's Rod recursion from the GY to rebuild the engine after a single interruption
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no side deck (side_count 0), so adaptation relies on the single main deck alone

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its Dark Magician engine: the archetype core group has a 0.9991 probability of at least one piece in a 5-card opening hand, and the 11 searcher-text cards give a 0.92 chance of a search effect in hand. Its conversion ceiling comes from a fully loaded 9-slot Extra Deck with five Fusion, two Link and two Xyz bosses, several of them 3000 ATK with negation or removal text. Interaction is layered through Nibiru, Eternal Soul, Magicians' Combination and Illusion of Chaos, which keeps the line alive through single interruptions. Scoring is on the system, not on card averages, and the recorded-combo fields are empty, so the ceiling and median reads are text-based inference and not observed output. Archetype popularity and usage statistics were not counted as power; they only confirm the list is a standard build. Meta Power is provisional, the deck has no side deck, and the usage-based core coverage figure is unreliable for the reasons listed in data_gaps.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 70% Combo / 30% Toolbox. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: no post-side plan (-2); sub-archetype engine spread (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; 0.8*64.34 + 0.2*60 = 63.47, then -3 modifiers, rounded to 60)

Probability & combo summary

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

Strengths

• Core starter density: 21 archetype-core copies and 11 searcher-text cards give a 0.9991 chance of an archetype piece in the opening 5
• Nine full Extra Deck slots with boss-level Fusion, Link and Xyz options
• Layered interaction from hand traps and negation text (Nibiru, Eternal Soul, Magicians' Combination, Illusion of Chaos)

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adjustment
• Lava Golem needs an opponent board to Special Summon and is a likely hand brick
• Only 38.5% exact-name archetype purity with 24 off-archetype copies

Critical choke points

• Magician's Rod and Dark Magical Curtain as the only engine enablers on the 3-copy starter line
• Dark Magician as a 3-copy core card that many hands need for the Fusion route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal main 30, extra 9, side 0 under the Duel Links size rules; All 30 main and 9 extra cards are Unlimited in BanDuelLink with copy counts within limit; Extra Deck composition: 5 Fusion, 2 Link, 2 Xyz; Exact-name archetype purity 38.5%, 24 off-archetype copies
• Observed: No recorded combo boards exist for this deck (total_combos 0)
• Inferred: P(>=1 archetype-core card in hand5) ≈ 0.9991; P(>=1 searcher) ≈ 0.92; Ceiling and median read from card text only; Hand-trap and negation coverage read from text flags; Structural score 64.34 from the Combo/Toolbox 70/30 blend
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; Matchup coverage and tournament reliability are provisional
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry in YGOVN: going-first/second, matchup, brick and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown usage_statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with the cards list: Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Master of Chaos, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, The Dark Magicians and Underworld Goddess are present as extra-zone cards but marked in_this_deck:false, so core_present_pct 57.1 is understated and the missing_core list is unreliable Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied