Dark Magician Deck #765957 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Control, Fusion/Link/Ritual
• Format: duel-links

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion or Link boards built from Dark Magician-lineage starters (Timaeus, Illusion of Chaos, Dark Magical Curtain, Dark Magician, Magicians' Souls) into Dark Magicians of Destruction, Dark Paladin, Master of Chaos, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, and Underworld Goddess for negation and 3000-ATK pressure.; Dark Magician Girl ATK growth from the GY plus repeated Dark Magician / Magicians' Souls recursion through Soul Servant and Magician's Rod.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Timaeus, Illusion of Chaos or Dark Magical Curtain starter (about 0.86 for at least one of the 9 copies in 5 cards, Inferred), convert into a DM-lineage Fusion or Link board, and hold Magicians' Combination or Eternal Soul for protection.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird or Forbidden Droplet against the opponent's first play, then rebuild with a Fusion/Link follow-up; Dark Magic Attack is the only dedicated spell/trap removal.
• Recovery: Soul Servant (from GY) and Magicians' Souls (draw 2 from Spell/Trap) recycle DM-lineage cards; Magician's Rod recurs from GY.
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links is a single-game format and the deck runs 0 side cards.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a DM-lineage starter: Timaeus, Illusion of Chaos and Dark Magical Curtain give about 0.86 for at least one hit in five cards (Inferred), and the Extra Deck supplies 9 Fusion and Link bosses. Its interaction is layered across Magicians' Combination, Eternal Soul, Forbidden Droplet, Dark Paladin and the Droll & Lock Bird hand trap, which is what carries D7 and the going-first score. Closing power is strong because several 2800 to 3000 ATK bosses are reachable, but the median output and combo ceiling are inferred from card text only, since no recorded boards exist. Popularity and the guide coverage confirm the list is real and accessible but earned no points, and the score was built from the system rather than an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 65.6, Going First ≈ 67, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: Hard garnet / summon condition (-1); Off-engine tech dilution (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(meta-neutral, D13 dropped) + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (-2); Meta provisional; 0.80*65.6 + 0.20*56 - 2 = 61.7 -> 62

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · 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 DM-lineage starter access, with 9 copies of Timaeus, Illusion of Chaos and Dark Magical Curtain
• Layered negation and hand-trap interaction (Magicians' Combination, Eternal Soul, Forbidden Droplet, Droll & Lock Bird, Dark Paladin)
• Full Extra Deck (9 of 9) with multiple 2800 to 3000 ATK Fusion and Link bosses
• Real recursion through Soul Servant and Magicians' Souls

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so the combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference
• Conditional tech (Lava Golem, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Bystial Magnamhut) dilutes the engine
• Only one copy of Soul Servant despite a typical copy count of 2
• Extra Deck core mismatch in the usage data (see data_gaps); the true core-presence figure is unreliable

Critical choke points

• The 9 Timaeus/Illusion/Curtain copies are the main starter density; if they miss, the opener relies on Dark Magician and Magicians' Souls
• Lava Golem needs two opponent monsters to tribute, so it is a dead draw on an empty opposing field
• Magicians' Combination and Eternal Soul protection depend on Dark Magician lineage remaining on the field

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in duel-links: 30 main (20-30), 9 extra (0-9), 0 side, no violations; Bystial Magnamhut is Semi-Limited with 1 copy run of 2 legal; Card text and stats for all 28 distinct cards from the evidence pack; Archetype usage statistics available (23 rows)
• Observed: Guide coverage: 6 Dark Magician guides, dated up to October 2026
• Inferred: P(at least one of 9 starter copies in 5 cards) ≈ 0.86 and in 6 cards ≈ 0.91; Combo conversion, interaction density and resilience read from card text; Going-first and going-second power components; Recommendations on Lava Golem, Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Soul Servant
• Provisional: Median output (no recorded boards); Matchup fit and meta share (no dated metagame or tournament link); Side-deck adaptability (Duel Links has no sideboard)
• 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 usage_statistics in_this_deck flags are wrong for every Extra Deck card: Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Master of Chaos, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, The Dark Magicians, Underworld Goddess, S:P Little Knight and I:P Masquerena are all in cards[] (zone extra) but flagged in_this_deck false. The reported core_present_pct 57.1 is therefore unreliable; by name, 20 of 21 core cards are present (only Secrets of Dark Magic is missing) deck title is null in the export no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so brick, starter and matchup rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied