Dark Magician Deck #765534 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±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: Extra Deck Fusion/Xyz boards of 2500-3000 ATK monsters (Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, Master of Chaos, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Super Starslayer TY-PHON) built off the Dark Magician core (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Dark Magician Girl recursion from the GY (+300 ATK per Dark Magician in GY) plus Magician's Rod / Magicians' Souls card advantage (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search or summon Dark Magician, Timaeus or Magician's Rod, then protect the first Dark Magician with Eternal Soul and build toward a Fusion or Xyz summon (Inferred from card text, not from recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Nibiru (hand trap), Magicians' Combination and Dark Magic Attack to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Dark Magician Girl and the Extra Deck (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recur Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl from the GY with Magician's Salvation, Soul Servant and Magician's Rod, and draw with Magicians' Souls (Inferred)
• After siding: None. The deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan (Duel Links format)

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reliably: the probability of at least one searcher-text card in a going-first 5-card hand is about 0.92, and the archetype core (18 copies) is almost always present. Its conversion is supported by a large Extra Deck (5 Fusion, 3 Xyz, 1 Link) with several 2500-3000 ATK closers, and by redundant starters (Dark Magician, Timaeus, Illusion of Chaos, Magician's Rod, Magicians' Souls) so one interruption does not end the turn. Interaction is the strongest area, with Magicians' Combination, Eternal Soul, Dark Magic Attack, Nibiru and Master of Chaos covering both going-first and going-second boards. The score is not based on the archetype's popularity or on averaging card scores, since there is no win-rate, meta-share or recorded combo data. Brick risk is the main limit: Lava Golem can only be Special Summoned by tributing two opposing monsters, and the deck has no side deck, so it has no post-side plan.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62.5, Going First ≈ 63, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: No context modifiers applied (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural is meta-neutral (D13 dropped and weights re-normalized over 95): (5934/95)=62.5; 0.80*62.5 + 0.20*55 = 61

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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, redundant searcher and draw package (Magicians' Souls, Soul Servant, Dark Magician Girl, Magician's Rod, Timaeus)
• Strong interaction suite: Magicians' Combination, Eternal Soul, Dark Magic Attack, Nibiru, Master of Chaos
• Extra Deck with several 2500-3000 ATK closers and fusion/xyz coverage
• Legal in Duel Links with no copy-limit violations

Weaknesses

• Lava Golem (3 copies) needs two opposing monsters to tribute and is a brick in many hands
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and floor cannot be measured
• Complex multi-branch Extra Deck routes raise pilot error risk

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician (3 copies) and Timaeus (3 copies) as the first summon for most Extra Deck routes (Inferred)
• Eternal Soul protection being removed before the Fusion/Xyz summon (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal main 30 / extra 9 / side 0 within Duel Links size rules; Photon Jumper Semi-Limited with 1 copy (legal limit 2); Card text of the 3 hand-trap/tech and 4 negation cards in the deck; Archetype spread and exact-name purity 35.9%
• Inferred: Starter access, brick rate and hand-trap estimates from hypergeometric draws; Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Dimension scores D1-D14 (except D12 and D13)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup/format fit (50, placeholder)
• Data gaps: Title is null on the Deck row No combos supplied (total_combos = 0): ceiling, median and floor are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate, going-first/second or matchup telemetry exists in YGOVN usage_statistics in_this_deck flags are false for Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Master of Chaos, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, The Dark Magicians and S:P Little Knight, but these 6 cards appear in cards[] (zone extra). The export appears to match usage only against Main Deck cards. Core coverage recomputed with Extra Deck counted: 18 of 21 (85.7%); truly absent core: Underworld Goddess of the Closed World, I:P Masquerena, Secrets of Dark Magic Guide snippets only: 6 guides, section_count 0 for all, and guide 1489 snippet is empty