Dark Magician Deck #765602 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 59 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual or Synchro/Link boards led by Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi (3200 ATK) and Dark Magician (2500 ATK), with Dark Magician of Destruction and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon as Extra Deck closers (the list runs only 1 copy of each Extra Deck closer besides Red-Eyes is absent); Link and Synchro pressure from Yummy and Sky Striker link monsters, plus Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird protecting the board
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a searcher (Dark Magical Curtain, Mitsurugi no Mikoto searchers, Witch of the Black Forest) and go to a Ritual or Link line; the list has no evidence of a deterministic T1 line
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru) against the opponent's first engine play, then rebuild via Mulcharmy draws
• Recovery: Rebuild from the GY using Mitsurugi Ritual, Mitsurugi Mirror and Pre-Preparation of Rites, but only one copy of Pre-Preparation can legally be run
• After siding: Not evaluable: the Side Deck is empty, so no post-side plan exists in this list

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in TCG: four cards exceed their Limited or Semi-Limited copy limits and the Side Deck is empty, so it does not receive a normal Final Contextual score and is capped at 20 as a theoretical, structural-only read. Its structural strength is interaction: about 15 hand traps and negation text give a strong going-second profile (P(at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand) ≈ 0.84, Inferred). The engine is weak because the main deck mixes several sub-archetypes (Mitsurugi, Yummy, Mulcharmy, PSY-Frame, Sky Striker, Chaos, Prophecy) with only 2 exact Dark Magician-name copies, so the deck's starters do not reliably connect into one line. No recorded boards, guides, tournament link or post-side plan exist, so combo ceiling and median are text-only, and popularity or archetype usage did not earn points. Scores come from the 14 dimensions on the system, not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox primary with Stun secondary (approx. 80:20 by dimension weight, no hybrid math applied). Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflicts (-4); weak_side_plan (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional), then capped at 20 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.15 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction: about 15 hand traps and negation text, plus removal such as Mitsurugi Great Purification and Lightning Storm (Verified card text, Inferred impact)
• Strong going-second hand-trap coverage (≈0.84 for at least one in 6 cards, Inferred)
• Large Extra Deck coverage with 10 Links and 3 Synchros for flexible boards (Verified composition)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts on four cards and an empty Side Deck (Verified)
• Sub-archetype spread (Mitsurugi, Yummy, Mulcharmy, PSY-Frame, Sky Striker) with only 2 exact Dark Magician copies weakens engine coherence (Verified composition)
• No recorded boards, guides or tournament data, so combo output is unverifiable (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Mitsurugi Ritual and Mitsurugi Mirror are the only Ritual route to the strongest Ritual bosses, so losing them to a single interruption ends the line (Inferred)
• Searchers depend on a small set of Limited cards (Pre-Preparation, Mitsurugi Prayers) that are over the limit (Verified)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Copy-limit violations on 4 cards (Ash Blossom 3/2, Mitsurugi Prayers 3/1, Marshmao☆Yummy 2/1, Pre-Preparation of Rites 2/1); Banlist statuses for about 14 restricted cards; Empty Side Deck (0 cards); Exact-name archetype purity 2.7%
• Observed: Usage-stat inclusion: Ash Blossom 94%, Droll & Lock Bird 94%, Dark Magical Curtain 77%, Dark Magician 71%, Infinite Impermanence 57%
• Inferred: Hand-trap and searcher hypergeometric estimates (≈0.84 and ≈0.87); Brick proxy ≈0.15 from the archetype-core probability; Interaction density from card text (Inferred semantic read); Going-second advantage from hand-trap coverage
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and format fit (no tournament link)
• 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 exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty for a best-of-3 format Illegal list: no normal Final Contextual score can be assigned