Dark Magician Deck #765975 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• Format: duel-links

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion, Xyz and Link boards built off Dark Magician / Dark Magician Girl bodies, with Dark Magician of Destruction, The Dark Magicians and Master of Chaos as the main attackers (ATK 2800-3000); Super Starslayer TY-PHON and Number 90 as Xyz finishers; Dark Magician (2500 ATK) as a direct beater
• Turn 1 (going first): Search and place Dark Magician through Magician's Rod / Illusion of Chaos / Dark Magical Circle, convert via Magician's Souls or Dark Magical Curtain into a Fusion or Xyz, and set Eternal Soul or Magician's Combination as the protection layer
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Nibiru (hand trap) or Magician's Combination to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild with Soul Servant / Magician's Salvation recursion and the Extra Deck
• Recovery: Recover from Soul Servant, Magician's Rod and Magicians' Souls in the GY, plus Dark Magical Circle and Eternal Soul searches, to rebuild the Dark Magician core
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no sideboard (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected Dark Magician system: 18 archetype-core copies give a near-certain (about 0.99) chance of at least one core card in the opening five, and 11 searcher-text cards add redundancy, so the engine is usually live by turn 1-2. The ceiling comes from a 9-card Extra Deck that reaches 2800-3000 ATK boards (Dark Magician of Destruction, The Dark Magicians, Master of Chaos, TY-PHON), with interaction from Magician's Combination, Eternal Soul, Dark Magic Attack and Number 90 negation text. The median is weaker because no recorded boards exist and the list has about 36% exact-name Dark Magician purity; Chaos, Prophecy, Photon and Red-Eyes cards dilute the engine, and single-copy support cards create brick risk. Popularity and guide coverage confirm the list is real and accessible but earned no points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 68.49, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 66. Modifiers: No sideboard in format (-2); Engine dilution across sub-archetypes (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Final = 0.80*68.49 + 0.20*66 - 4 modifiers = 63.99

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense archetype core (18 copies) gives near-certain opening access
• Strong end-board ATK in the Extra Deck (2800-3000) with a fully used 9-card Extra Deck
• Multiple recursion and search routes (Soul Servant, Magicians' Souls, Dark Magical Circle) support a long grind

Weaknesses

• Exact-name purity is only 35.9%; sub-archetype cards dilute the engine
• Several singleton conditional cards can be dead without Dark Magician on board
• No recorded boards, so the floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician or Dark Magician Girl on the field for most Extra Deck routes
• Single copies of Dark Magic Attack, Soul Servant and Dark Magician Girl make those routes fragile

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 legal for duel-links (size rules 20-30 / 0-9); Photon Jumper is Semi-Limited and runs 1 copy (legal limit 2); All 30 main and 9 extra cards carry card text and banlist status Unlimited (except Photon Jumper); Exact-name purity 35.9% and archetype spread from composition; Dark Magician core presence: 18 copies, p(>=1 in opening 5) = 0.9944
• Observed: Usage stats: 21 core cards tracked, with 12 flagged present; inclusion percentages for Dark Magician Girl, Gaze of Timaeus and Illusion of Chaos
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency and brick estimates from hypergeometric draw odds; Ceiling and median output inferred from card text, since no boards exist; Interaction density read from negation and removal text; Extra-deck coverage from the 9-card Extra Deck breakdown
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Side-deck adaptability (no sideboard in format); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos recorded: 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: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional (no dated metagame sample) Evidence conflict: usage_statistics marks Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Master of Chaos, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, The Dark Magicians and S:P Little Knight as not in this deck (in_this_deck false), yet all six appear in the cards list in the Extra zone; core coverage for Extra Deck cards is therefore understated and missing_core is unreliable for them Duel Links has no sideboard, so D12 cannot be scored from side-deck evidence