Dark Magician Deck #762822 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra-Deck boss monsters (Master of Chaos, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, The Dark Magicians, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, Dark Magician of Destruction) backed by 2500-ATK Dark Magicians; Dark Magician Girl ATK growth and Link Monster board pressure (S:P Little Knight, I:P Masquerena)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Dark Magician Girl the Magician's Apprentice, Illusion of Chaos, or Mulcharmy Fuwalos) and use Shining Sarcophagus or Magicians' Souls to reach a Dark Magician, then Fusion or Ritual into a boss monster
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Mulcharmy draw triggers on the opponent's summons, Dark Magic Attack or Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon for board removal, and rebuild through Soul Servant and Dark Magical Circle
• Recovery: Recur Dark Magicians and Magicians' Souls from the GY and banish, use Soul Servant to re-place Dark Magicians on top of the Deck, and rebuild through Eternal Soul or Magician's Salvation
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no side deck and none is run (side_count 0)

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reliably: the searcher-text density (12 cards, P(>=1 in opening 5) about 0.94) and the archetype-core group (16 copies, about 0.986 open at least one in a 5-card hand) mean most hands can reach a Dark Magician, although each individual 3-copy starter is live in only about 43% of openings. Conversion is credible on the system level because five Extra-Deck bosses reach 2800 to 3000 ATK, but the deck has no parseable recorded boards, so its ceiling and median are text-only inferences and kept separate. Interaction is thin for Duel Links: one Dark Magic Attack, one Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, and a few negate or removal effects with no hand traps, which lowers going-second strength and recovery after disruption. Two Extra-Deck cards (Dragon Master Knight, Dark Paladin) need materials this list does not run, and popularity or archetype usage was not counted as power; no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Combo as secondary tie-break. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Dead Extra-Deck cards / engine conflict (-2); Dependence on specific Extra-Deck materials (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural is meta-neutral with D13 dropped and weights renormalized: 5795/95 = 61.0; 0.80*61.0 + 0.20*58 = 60.4; modifiers -4 gives 56.4, rounded to 56

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.43 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher text (12 cards) keeps the Dark Magician core reachable (archetype-core P(>=1 in hand5) about 0.986)
• Multiple 2500 to 3000 ATK boss routes in the Extra Deck
• Several recursion and draw effects (Magicians' Souls, Soul Servant, Mulcharmy) support grind

Weaknesses

• No hand traps and no floodgates, so going-second interaction is thin
• Two Extra-Deck cards are dead without absent materials
• Exact-name archetype purity is 48.7%, with Mulcharmy and Blue-Eyes pulling the list off-theme

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician in hand or GY is needed for most boss routes; a Dark Magician-less opening is weak
• Mulcharmy draw effects need an empty field, which conflicts with Shining Sarcophagus and Dark Magical Circle boards

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Legal under BanDuelLink; 30 Main and 9 Extra with all copy counts within limits; All 21 Main and 9 Extra distinct cards are Unlimited; Card stats and text excerpts from the evidence pack; Archetype purity 48.7% and spread from composition
• Observed: Usage statistics: Dark Magician Girl, Dark Magic Attack, Gaze of Timaeus, and Dark Magical Circle are 90 to 100% core inclusion across archetype decks
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency from hypergeometric estimates (about 0.43 per 3-copy starter; core group about 0.986); Dead Extra-Deck cards: Dragon Master Knight and Dark Paladin; Interaction and going-second weakness from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and D13; Side deck (N/A in Duel Links)
• 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) Usage-statistics in_this_deck flags ignore Extra-Deck copies: Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Master of Chaos, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, The Dark Magicians, and S:P Little Knight are in the cards list but flagged false. Corrected core presence from the cards list is 19 of 21 (about 90.5%), not the reported 61.9% Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Guides are snippets only (section_count 0 across all 6), so strategic intent is thin