Silent Magician Deck #763263 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Stun
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Dark Magician of Destruction, Timaeus, Chaos Angel, Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon, Silent Magician the Silent Fighter) enabled by Shining Sarcophagus and Dark Magician search text (Inferred from card text); Hand-trap and negation-supported board control that lets a single boss stick (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Shining Sarcophagus, Gadget Trio or Future Silence searcher on T1 and convert it into a Sarcophagus-enabled summon line; the Forbidden cards are removed from the plan (Inferred, not verified by recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 7 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence) to interrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through searchers (Inferred)
• Recovery: Search and recursion from the GY via Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Dark Magician and Gandora-G text, with 15 searcher-text cards providing redundancy (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists; this is a structural gap, not a tuned build

Why it scores here

The list reliably opens an engine on the back of 15 searcher-text cards and an archetype-core group that is about 87 percent likely to yield at least one starter in a 5-card opening (Inferred hypergeometric estimate), so the consistency read is moderate rather than poor. Its interaction suite is the strongest part of the system: seven hand traps, nine negation-text cards and eight removal-text cards give it layered answers to a going-second board (Inferred from card text). Median and ceiling output could not be measured because no recorded boards exist, so both are structural estimates with low confidence. The score is capped low because three Forbidden cards (Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Cross-Sheep) make the list illegal in OCG; the structural score is theoretical only and the zero-entry side deck removes any post-side plan. Popularity and archetype usage confirm the list is real and accessible but added no points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); empty side deck (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap: Structural 56 and Tournament Reliability 48 give 0.80*56 + 0.20*48 = 54.4, less banlist and side modifiers (-12) = 42.4, then capped to 30 because the deck is Illegal; theoretical/structural-only (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · 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

• Layered hand-trap and negation suite (7 hand traps, 9 negation-text cards)
• 15 searcher-text cards give high starter access
• Extra Deck boss threats including Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon and Silent Magician the Silent Fighter

Weaknesses

• Three Forbidden cards make the list illegal in OCG
• Empty side deck: no post-side plan
• Low archetype purity (3.6 percent exact-name) with a mixed sub-archetype spread

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus as the central enabler; a single disruption removes most of the engine (Inferred)
• Forbidden Extra Deck slots reduce usable Extra Deck from 15 to 12 cards

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 41 and Extra 15 within OCG size rules; Three Forbidden cards run at 1 copy each (illegal); Four Limited cards run at 1 copy each, within limit; Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring run 2 copies, Semi-Limited, within limit; Side deck count is 0
• Observed: Archetype core inclusion stats for Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Ash Blossom and Mulcharmy Fuwalos
• Inferred: Starter consistency (hypergeometric); Interaction density from card text; Going-first and going-second plans; Structural dimension scores
• Provisional: Meta power (null); Tournament reliability; D13 matchup and format fit
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied side deck is empty; post-side performance cannot be assessed