Dark Magician Deck #762842 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 8 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Boss monsters from the Extra Deck (Chaos Angel, Underworld Goddess, Black Chaos / Black Luster Soldier via Light and Darkness Ritual, Dark Magician of Destruction) backed by a large hand-trap and interaction suite.; Link-based board and recursion through Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl and Light and Darkness Ritual searchers; no combo boards are recorded to confirm it.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Magician's Rod, Dark Magical Curtain, Griffoh, Shining Sarcophagus) into a Ritual or Link line, keeping hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre) up for the opponent's first answer.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps and Droll & Lock Bird to stop the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws and Fantastical Dragon Phantazmay summons.
• Recovery: Recursion from the GY (Dark Magician, Soul Servant, Ragged Records of Rites, Skull Archfiend of Chaos) and Link Summons from the Extra Deck, if the list were legal.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck's raw system points to a multi-engine Toolbox build: the archetype core (16 copies) opens at least one card in 5 cards about 80% of the time, and 12 hand traps give about 75% of going-second hands at least one interaction. Its Extra Deck has real closing power (Chaos Angel, Underworld Goddess, Black Chaos routes), but no combo boards are recorded, so its ceiling and median output are text-only inference. Popularity was not used to earn points, and card scores were not averaged. The list is Illegal: three Forbidden cards and two Limited or Semi-Limited copy overages, so the structural score is capped and the final score is set to 25 as a theoretical reading only. No Side Deck and no tournament or win-rate data leave the post-side and matchup dimensions low or provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 48.6, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-10). Final formula: Illegal list: unpenalised 0.80*48.6 + 0.20*45 = 47.8, with -10 banlist modifier = 37.8, then capped at 25 as a theoretical/structural-only score. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · 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 hand-trap and negation suite (12 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards)
• Strong Extra Deck boss monsters with 3000+ ATK routes
• Archetype core is accessible at about 80% per opening hand

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: copy-limit and Forbidden violations
• Diffuse build: 12% exact archetype purity across multiple sub-archetypes
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Every non-engine tech card competes with the engine for limited hand slots
• Three Forbidden cards removed in a legal build would break the Extra Deck plan

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 60 and Extra deck 15 are within size rules; Eight copy-limit or Forbidden violations are present; Exact-name archetype purity is 12%; Archetype core inclusion and hand-trap counts from the export
• Inferred: P(≥1 starter in 5) ≈ 0.80 from the hypergeometric draw table; Going-second hand-trap interaction ≈ 0.75; Boss-monster closing power and interaction breadth from card text
• Provisional: Meta and matchup fit (no tournament link or dated metagame sample); Going-first and going-second power (no win-rate telemetry)
• 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 match record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick/starter rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck, so post-side evaluation is not possible