Dark Magician Deck #769998 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 59 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual and Fusion boss monsters (Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Dark Paladin, Dark Magician of Destruction) backed by Dark Magician searchers and hand-trap protection; Link Monster board presence and Extra Deck Link beats (Accesscode Talker, Selene, Zenna's Deceiving Doll Maidens)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Dark Magician-name or Light and Darkness Ritual searcher, use Magician's Rod / Mind Shuffle / Dark Magical Circle to find a ritual-enabling spell, then Ritual Summon a boss; Mulcharmy draw engine conflicts with the field-based ritual line and must be chosen against
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C" and Red Reboot as hand-trap interaction for the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild with Magicians' Souls-free searchers and Extra Deck Links
• Recovery: Recursion from Soul Servant, Skull Archfiend of Chaos and Dark Magical Curtain plus searcher density (21 searcher-text cards) to re-find the core Dark Magician and ritual pieces
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs an empty Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan in the export

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in OCG because it runs three Forbidden cards (Magicians' Souls, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Cross-Sheep), so the score is a structural read capped at 20 and is labelled theoretical only. Structurally it has real strengths: 21 searcher-text cards give about a 90% chance of at least one searcher in an opening 5, and eight hand traps give about a 60% chance of at least one going second. Its boss ceiling (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Magician of Dark Chaos, Dark Paladin) is high, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference and the median is scored low. The deck is internally split: only 10 copies (13.5%) are named Dark Magician, while Mulcharmy's empty-field requirement conflicts with the field-based ritual and Link lines, and it runs no Side Deck. The score came from consistency, interaction and boss closing across the whole system, not from averaging card scores, and the Dark Magician archetype's popularity earned no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox primary; Midrange secondary used only as a qualitative check, weights not blended. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 46. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); engine_conflicts (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(53) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(46) + ContextModifiers(-12) = 40 before the Illegal cap; Illegal cap applied, final = 20 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.62 · 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 text (21 cards) gives a near-certain searcher in the opening hand
• Eight hand traps and Ash Blossom x2 cover the going-second turn
• High boss ceiling from ritual and fusion monsters with 2800–3500 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal: three Forbidden cards must be removed
• Only 13.5% exact-archetype purity; 64 off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• No Side Deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Mulcharmy empty-field requirement conflicts with the ritual and Link lines

Critical choke points

• Ritual Summon of the boss monster depends on Light and Darkness Ritual or Magician of Dark Chaos routing, which the list reaches through a small number of copies
• Going-second plan depends on the 8 hand traps that the opponent can play around

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: three Forbidden cards in the Main and Extra Deck (legality block); Main 59 and Extra 15 are inside OCG size rules (40–60 / 0–15); Card text for 36 distinct main-deck names and 15 Extra Deck names is present; Copy histogram: 23 singletons, 3 doubles, 10 triples
• Inferred: Starter access ≈ 0.62 for the archetype-core group (hypergeometric); Searcher density ≈ 0.90 in hand5; Hand-trap access ≈ 0.60 going second; Mulcharmy/ritual engine conflict
• Provisional: Format fit and matchup coverage (no tournament link or meta sample); Post-side plan (no Side Deck)
• 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 Side Deck (0 cards) — post-side adaptability cannot be measured no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied