Dark Magician Deck #766608 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±8 · 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, Link and Xyz boards led by Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction and Dragon Master Knight, after a Dark Magician starter is recovered and Extra Deck summoned; Direct Dark Magician beats supported by Dark Magician Girl GY pump and Magician's Rod recursion
• Turn 1 (going first): T1 search or Summon Dark Magician or Apprentice Illusion Magician, use Magicians' Souls or Soul Servant to recycle, then fuse or link into a Dragoon or Destruction monster
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Dark Magic Attack or Forbidden Droplet to clear backrow and monsters, then Summon through the Extra Deck with Eternal Soul protecting Dark Magicians
• Recovery: Soul Servant and Magicians' Souls return to hand or Deck from GY; Magician's Rod and Dark Magical Circle rebuild the starter pool
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links export has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an engine: the archetype core group has a hypergeometric chance of about 0.997 to show at least one Dark Magician card in a 5-card opener, and 12 searcher-text cards give about 0.94 odds of at least one search effect (Inferred). Its redundancy comes from several 2-3 copy starters (Magicians' Souls, Soul Servant, Dark Magic Expanded, Apprentice Illusion Magician) that cover one another, so one interruption does not end the line. Conversion is strong on paper because the Extra Deck holds high-ATK finishers such as Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon (3000), Dark Magician of Destruction (2800) and Dragon Master Knight (5000), but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based only. Interaction is moderate: Forbidden Droplet, Dark Magic Attack, Eternal Soul and five negation-text cards cover several disruption types, while going-second board breaking is limited. The score comes from consistency, redundancy and finisher quality on the system, not from Dark Magician's popularity or from averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 61.4, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Extra Deck dependence (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*61.4 + 0.20*60 = 61.1, then -2 modifier = 59

Probability & combo summary

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

Strengths

• Archetype core is almost always reachable on the opener (about 0.997 Inferred)
• Redundant starters and recursion give several independent lines
• Extra Deck finishers have high ATK and destruction or negation text
• Legal in Duel Links with no copy-limit or size violations

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median are text-only
• Side Deck absent, so no post-side adaptability
• Extra Deck finishers require specific materials, which adds decision load
• Several singleton starters (Timaeus, Dark Magician Girl, Eternal Soul) lower the odds of a specific line

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician in hand or GY is needed for most Extra Deck routes; a hand with only Chaos or Prophecy cards may stall
• Dragoon and Destruction summons depend on specific material on field or GY

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Duel Links: 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side; no copy-limit violations (legality); All 22 distinct cards resolved with Unlimited banlist status (cards); Archetype core and searcher probabilities computed from the resolved list (probabilities); Usage statistics show Dark Magician core and Dark Magic Attack, Eternal Soul and Illusion of Chaos inclusion rates (usage_statistics)
• Inferred: Opening consistency: 0.997 archetype core, 0.94 searcher (hypergeometric); Engine redundancy from overlapping starters and recursion text; Interaction breadth from negation, removal and hand-trap-style card text; Finisher quality from ATK and destruction text on Extra Deck boss monsters; Going-first and going-second split from text only
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample; Tournament reliability: no tournament link or pilot match record; Side adaptability: no side deck in this format
• Data gaps: No recorded combos (combos_evidence total 0): ceiling, median and board conversion are text-only No tournament link: archetype meta share and pilot record unavailable No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second and matchup results are Inferred or Unknown usage_statistics.in_this_deck is false for Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction and Master of Chaos although they appear in cards with zone extra; the usage join is inconsistent and was not trusted Deck title is null; deck identified by id and archetype only