Dark Magician Deck #765155 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra-Deck boss (Dark Paladin, Dark Magician of Destruction, Master of Chaos, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Super Starslayer TY-PHON) established off a Dark Magician / Magician's Souls / Magicians' Combination engine; Dark Magician (2500 ATK) and Dark Magician Girl as direct beaters once the board is cleared with Dark Magic Attack or Secrets of Dark Magic
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Preparation of Rites, Dark Magical Circle or Timaeus, Normal Summon Dark Magician or Evolsaur Lios, then Fusion/Xyz into a Dark Magician boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Droll & Lock Bird and Magicians' Combination, respond to the opponent's first activation, then rebuild through Soul Servant and Magicians' Souls draw
• Recovery: Magicians' Souls draws and Soul Servant recursion refill the hand; Dark Magical Circle and Preparation of Rites re-find the engine
• After siding: Not applicable: the list runs 0 side cards in a format where side-deck construction is not a standard step

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan because 17 archetype-core copies and 10 searcher-text cards give a 0.99 chance of at least one core card in the opening five and about 0.89 for at least one searcher, and the list runs the full 30-card Main Deck limit. Its conversion depends on a Dark Magician engine that feeds a broad Extra Deck of Fusion, Xyz and Link bosses, giving it a high ceiling, but the lack of any recorded boards means its typical output is inferred from card text rather than observed. Continuation after disruption is supported by two hand traps, four negation-text cards, Magicians' Combination, and recursion through Soul Servant and Magicians' Souls, while sub-archetypes such as Evol, Chaos, Prophecy, Timaeus and Diabellstar compete for slots and weaken the engine's coherence. Popularity and archetype share did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score; the 57 reflects consistency, a plausible ceiling and interaction on the system, with Low confidence because there are no combos, no tournament link and no win-rate telemetry.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: primary Combo, secondary Midrange (disclosed only; no blend applied to weights). Structural ≈ 59.5, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-2); banlist exposure (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*59.5 + 0.20*55 = 58.6, then -2 context modifiers = 56.6, rounded to 57

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · 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

• Archetype-core density (17 copies) makes a starter in the opening hand almost certain
• Broad Extra Deck coverage across Fusion, Xyz and Link with diverse boss options
• Multiple recursion and draw routes (Magicians' Souls, Soul Servant, Dark Magical Circle) sustain card flow
• Full 30-card Main Deck and full 9-card Extra Deck use the format limits efficiently

Weaknesses

• Low exact-name purity (25.6%) means sub-archetype cards compete for the same hand space
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be verified
• No side deck and no post-side plan
• Heavy reliance on the Dark Magician line for conversion

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician (or Magician's Souls into Dark Magician) must survive a going-second negate or removal to convert
• Several bosses need specific materials, so one failed Extra Deck summon can stall the turn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal at 30 Main and 9 Extra with 0 Side under the duel-links ban field; Abyss Dweller is Limited and run at its single legal copy; Archetype-core group (17 copies) and searcher group (10 copies) counts; Dark Magician sub-archetype spread and exact-name purity 25.6%
• Observed: Usage statistics: core-card presence 52.4% of the listed core cards, with Dark Magician-line staples such as The Gaze of Timaeus and Dark Magician Girl present
• Inferred: P(>=1 searcher in opening 5) ≈ 0.89 and P(>=1 core card) ≈ 0.99 from hypergeometric draw odds; Combo ceiling and boss conversion from card text only; Brick rate and engine-conflict penalty from sub-archetype spread; Going-second interaction read from hand-trap and negation text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; Matchup fit (D13) and side adaptability (D12) are provisional
• 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 without a dated metagame sample No side deck data and no post-side evidence