Dark Magician Deck #762591 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 8 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Board presence from Dark Magician / Black Chaos / Timaeus / Dark Magician of Destruction ATK bodies, with Light and Darkness Ritual Summons as the main route (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards).; Link-based field presence (11 Link monsters in the Extra Deck) supported by Synchro and Fusion options.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher or starter (Dark Magical Curtain, Magician's Rod, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Black Chaos line), protected by hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Nibiru) against the opponent's first interaction (Inferred).
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand with 12 hand traps (about 75% to hold at least one) to stop the opponent's first Link or search line, then rebuild through Dark Magician and Light and Darkness Ritual (Inferred).
• Recovery: Recover through searchers (17 cards with searcher text) and Mulcharmy draw effects; Pot of Sloth can refill the hand (Inferred from text).
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck runs no side deck (side count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in TCG: eight cards exceed their legal copy limits, including six Forbidden cards and three Limited or Semi-Limited copy overages, so it receives a theoretical, structural-only score capped at 35. Its archetype core is real but thin: 21 core copies give about 89% chance of at least one in a five-card opening hand, and 17 searcher-text cards give about 82% (Inferred hypergeometric estimates). Interaction is the stronger side of the list, with 12 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards supporting a going-second plan (about 75% to hold one hand trap in six cards, Inferred). The deck has no recorded boards, so no combo ceiling or median is available and those dimensions rest on text reading alone. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); No side deck (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap: the normal formula 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-12) gives about 39; capped at 35. Theoretical / structural-only; Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.11 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense hand-trap package (12) gives strong going-second interaction (Inferred).
• Searcher density (17) and a 21-card core make a live opener likely (Inferred).
• Multiple independent 2500–3000 ATK finishers across Ritual, Fusion and Link (Verified stats).

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: six Forbidden cards and three copy-limit overages must be removed before it can be played (Verified).
• Three engines (Dark Magician, Light and Darkness Ritual, Mulcharmy) dilute coherence; exact-name purity is 12% (Verified).
• No side deck (Verified).

Critical choke points

• Forbidden or over-limit cards (Called by the Grave, Crossout Designator, Magicians' Souls, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Cross-Sheep, Charmer Quartet) are structural removals, not optional tech (Verified).
• Light and Darkness Ritual Summons depend on the Ritual Spell and a tribute or banish pool; a missing Ritual Spell leaves Black Chaos and Black Luster dead (Inferred).

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: eight cards exceed legal copy limits; Main 60 and Extra 15 meet size rules; Side 0 is legal (Verified).; Archetype purity 12%; 11 Link, 3 Fusion and 1 Synchro in the Extra Deck (Verified).; Usage stats: 11 of 21 core cards present, 52.4% (Verified).
• Inferred: P(core in opener) ≈ 0.89; P(hand trap in six) ≈ 0.75 (Inferred hypergeometric).; Going-first and going-second plans are text-derived (Inferred).; Interaction density and resilience from card text (Inferred semantic).
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (D13); no dated metagame or tournament sample (Provisional).
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent. No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups or brick rate. Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample.