Dark Magician Deck #765593 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 37/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Control
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician / Dark Magician of Destruction and Light and Darkness Ritual boss monsters (Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Black Skull Dragon) backed by Extra Deck link and fusion pressure; Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon and Albion the Branded Dragon fusion pressure once the board is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dark Magician / Light and Darkness Ritual starter (Magicians' Souls, Dark Magical Circle, Mind Shuffle, Magician's Rod, Skull Archfiend) and convert it into a ritual or fusion boss while holding Ash Blossom and Droll as interaction; the proxy-brick rate is about 18% (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Nibiru) to answer the opponent's first board, then re-stabilise with Dark Magical Curtain or Mulcharmy; no recorded going-second boards exist (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through searchers (Dark Magical Circle, Shining Sarcophagus, Light and Darkness Ritual, Magicians' Souls recursion) and Mulcharmy draw; recovery depends on the 19 searcher-text cards (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected system, not an average of its card scores. Its Dark Magician core (17 archetype-core copies, about 82% chance of at least one in an opening hand of five) gives a reasonable chance of a live starter, and its ceiling comes from Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos, Dark Magician of Destruction and the Extra Deck fusion/link bosses. Interaction is the strongest component: 12 hand traps, 9 negation-text cards and 21 removal-text cards give dense answers, though these are read from card text and labelled Inferred. The deck loses points on coherence: only 13% of main cards are exact-name Dark Magician cards, and the list mixes Light and Darkness Ritual, Prophecy, Branded, Chaos, Red-Eyes and Endymion engines, which weakens consistency and floor. Popularity was not credited (archetype usage stats only confirm the core is real), and the score is capped low because the list is illegal: three Ash Blossom and three Secret Village copies exceed their limits, so this is a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); engine_conflicts (-4); no_combo_evidence (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*51 + 0.20*42 - 12 = 39.2, then capped to 37 for an illegal list (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.18 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction: 12 hand traps plus negation and removal text cards
• Multiple boss routes (Black Chaos, Dark Magician of Destruction, Black Luster Soldier, Black Skull Dragon) with 3000+ ATK
• Flexible Extra Deck with fusion and link access (15 cards)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: copy-limit violations on Ash Blossom and Secret Village, and Limited cards run
• Low archetype purity (13.3% exact-name) across several sub-engines
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combos or win data to confirm consistency

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual and Dark Magician starters must both be drawn for the strongest lines
• Ritual boss summons depend on a small number of Ritual Spells (Light and Darkness Ritual x2)
• Secret Village (over limit) and Called by the Grave are single-copy answers that cannot be replaced by the list as built

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom 3 copies vs limit 2; Secret Village 3 copies vs limit 1; Main 60 and Extra 15 counts within TCG size rules; side 0; Archetype core inclusion and Extra Deck breakdown from the export; Exact-name purity 13.3%
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter and brick probabilities from the hypergeometric table; Interaction density from card text (hand traps, negation, removal); Ceiling and floor from text only, since no combo boards exist; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown no guides attached for the archetype Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied