Dark Magician Deck #762597 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 9 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck link and fusion boss monsters (Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon, Zenna's Deceiving Doll Maidens, Dark Magician of Destruction, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon) and Ritual Mitsurugi bodies such as Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi; Dark Magician and Magician's Rod card advantage grinding through Dark Magical Curtain, Soul Servant and Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Dark Magician Girl, Magician's Rod, Mulcharmy Fuwalos or Mitsurugi searchers to reach Shining Sarcophagus or a Mitsurugi Ritual line; hold Infinite Impermanence or Ash Blossom for the first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Infinite Impermanence to disrupt the opponent's first Summon, then rebuild through Dark Magical Curtain and Mitsurugi searches
• Recovery: Recover through Magician's Rod and Soul Servant recursion, Mulcharmy draw effects and Shining Sarcophagus searches, with the GY feeding Link and Ritual payoffs
• After siding: Not evaluable: side_count is 0 and no side deck is present in the export, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The evaluation is capped because the list is Illegal: nine Forbidden cards are present and Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi is run three times against a limit of zero, so the score is theoretical and structural only. Beyond legality, the system reads as a mixed-engine pile rather than a cohesive engine: exact-name Dark Magician purity is 17.5%, with Mitsurugi, Mulcharmy, Branded and Link sub-archetypes competing for the same slots. Consistency is moderate: the archetype core group has high raw presence (about 98.6% to see at least one in a 5-card hand) and 19 searcher-text cards help, but 18 of 27 distinct main cards run a single copy, so brick and conflict risk is real. Interaction is the strongest facet, with 9 hand traps, 7 negation-text cards and 9 removal-text cards giving reasonable layering, but there are no recorded boards, so no combo ceiling or median can be measured. The score comes from consistency, interaction and recovery on the system, not from averaging card scores or from the archetype's popularity, and no tournament or win-rate data supports a meta read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Stun secondary (interaction weighted up); Balanced-style rebalance not used. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); engine conflicts (-4); no side deck (-3); hard-garnet burden (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Illegal cap applied, theoretical/structural only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• Dense interaction package: 9 hand traps, 7 negation-text and 9 removal-text cards
• Strong searcher and draw density (19 searcher-text, Mulcharmy and Soul Servant draws)
• Extra Deck offers multiple boss routes across Link, Fusion and Synchro

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 9 Forbidden cards, including 3 copies of Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi against a limit of 0
• Low exact-archetype purity (17.5%); engines spread across several sub-archetypes
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Mitsurugi Ritual and Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi lines depend on Forbidden or single-copy Ritual pieces
• Extra Deck access depends on 6 Forbidden or limited link and fusion monsters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 9 Forbidden cards present, Illegal status; Main Deck size 42 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Extra Deck breakdown: 11 Link, 3 Fusion, 1 Synchro; Side deck count is 0; Ash Blossom and The Fallen & The Virtuous are Semi-Limited with 2 copies each (legal)
• Inferred: Archetype core group presence ~98.6% in a 5-card hand; Hand-trap group ~78.9% to see at least one going second; Interaction density from card text role hints; Brick risk from singletons and conflicting starters; Recursion and grind from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament or win-rate data)
• 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 absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck present in the export