Magistus Deck #768678 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Combo
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Link boards from Witchcrafter and Magistus starters, with Witchcrafter Madame Rilliona (3800 ATK) and Witchcrafter Vice-Madame as the main closers; Recursion-driven Spellcaster engine through Witchcrafter Schmietta, Pittore, Genni and Verre, Magistus Artemis and Verre, the Maid of Endymion as the summon outlets
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 searcher (Witchcrafter Walpurgis, Creation or Verre) into a Spellcaster starter, then Witchcrafter Seed or Schmietta to reach a Level 7+ or Fusion monster; hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre or Effect Veiler as interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Open hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird) on the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild a Witchcrafter engine from the GY
• Recovery: Witchcrafter GY-revival effects (Schmietta, Pittore, Genni, Terracottan) and Witchcrafter Creation re-add from the GY, which need a surviving Witchcrafter monster
• After siding: No side deck is registered (0 side cards); no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

This is a Magistus/Witchcrafter Spellcaster list with a 55-card Main Deck and 15-card Extra Deck, but it runs four Forbidden cards (Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Cross-Sheep, Protectcode Talker), so under the rubric it is Illegal and gets only a capped structural read. The deck reliably opens a Witchcrafter searcher (P(at least one search card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.86, Inferred), which supports a reasonable starter-access score. Interaction is dense (16 negation-text cards, 23 removal-text cards, 8 hand-trap flags), which earns the strongest dimension (D7). Combo ceiling and median are scored low-to-moderate because no recorded boards exist, so those scores rest on card text only. The score does not come from averaging card scores or from Magistus/Witchcrafter popularity; usage stats only show the list is an accessible variant, and the Illegal status caps the final score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 50.7, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal deck cap (-12.6); Banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: uncapped 0.80*50.7 + 0.20*45 = 49.6, minus 12 for banlist exposure = 37.6, then capped to 25 as theoretical/structural-only (Meta provisional)

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 searcher and recursion package for Witchcrafter (17 searcher-text cards)
• Layered interaction: 8 hand traps, 16 negation-text, 23 removal-text cards
• Fusion and Link Extra Deck coverage with high-ATK closers

Weaknesses

• Four Forbidden cards make the list Illegal in OCG
• Only 4 exact-name Magistus copies; the deck is mostly a Witchcrafter build with a Magistus name
• No side deck
• 27 level-0 spell/trap cards add brick risk

Critical choke points

• A single Witchcrafter monster on the field is needed for most GY-revival and summon effects
• Removing the four Forbidden cards would leave open Extra Deck slots that the current build depends on

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Four Forbidden cards run, with 0 legal copies each (Illegal); Main 55 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; Eight hand-trap flags and 17 searcher-text cards
• Inferred: Starter access ≈ 0.86 from the hypergeometric estimate; Interaction layering from card text; Brick and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample); Tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is 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 and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null