Dark Magician Deck #765169 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±6 · 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: Summon Dark Magician-named Fusion/Link boards (Master of Chaos, Dark Magician of Destruction, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Paladin) and attack through a 2500-3000 ATK wall; Link and Fusion pressure from Knightmare Phoenix, Miasma Necromancer and Day-Breaker with Timaeus Fusion lines
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dark Magician or Magician's Rod/Dark Magical Curtain starter, search with Dark Magical Circle or Soul Servant, and set up a Fusion or Link board while holding Effect Veiler or Droll for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird and Nibiru as hand traps against the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Magicians' Souls and Soul Servant recursion
• Recovery: Recur Dark Magician and Magician's Rod from the GY through Soul Servant and Magicians' Souls, then rebuild the Extra Deck boss from the remaining Dark Magician-named monsters
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no sideboard and this list runs 0 side cards

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Dark Magician-named starter: the archetype core group has P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.98 across 15 copies, and the searcher group reaches about 0.89 (Inferred). Its interaction is layered across hand traps (Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru), backrow and spell removal, and Extra Deck negation or destruction effects, which gives a strong end-board and going-second hand-trap plan. Conversion is the weak point: no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based inferences, and only 36% of main-deck cards share the exact Dark Magician name, with 25 off-archetype copies spread across Prophecy, Chaos, Mulcharmy, Knightmare and Red-Eyes. The score comes from consistency, interaction and resilience measured on the system; the deck's popularity (usage stats list it as a real, accessible archetype list) did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 57. Modifiers: Engine coherence split (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-2)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core is almost always accessible in the opening hand (about 0.98)
• Seven hand traps and layered negation give strong going-second interaction
• Extra Deck is fully used with 3000-ATK bosses and board-wide effects

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are inferred from text only
• Low exact-name purity (35.9%) spreads engine conflicts across sub-archetypes
• Missing usage-core cards (Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, The Dark Magicians, Magicians' Combination) reduce the consistent route

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician-named starter in hand: several lines depend on it, and the deck runs only 2-3 copies of each key card
• Extra Deck material from Dark Magician-named monsters: losing it to one interruption removes the boss plan

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in duel-links with 30 main, 9 extra, 0 side and no violations; All 30 main and 9 extra cards are Unlimited with no ban status; Core inclusion percentages from the archetype usage statistics; Exact-name purity 35.9% (14 of 39 copies)
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.98 from hypergeometric estimates; Hand-trap access about 0.83 when going second; Interaction breadth and going-second strength from card text; Board ceiling from Master of Chaos, Dark Magician of Destruction and Dark Paladin text
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Side adaptability (format has no sideboard)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown guides are snippet-only with no section content Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied