Dark Magician Deck #770020 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 47 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Large Ritual/Fusion/Link boards from Dark Magician and Light and Darkness Ritual engines, closing with Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Master of Chaos or Dark Paladin (Inferred from card text); Chaos Angel or Dark Magician of Destruction recursion through the Extra Deck (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Ragged Records of Rites, Shining Sarcophagus, Mind Shuffle or Magician's Rod, then Ritual or Fusion into a boss; Ash Blossom and Maxx C hold the first interaction (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Maxx C) plus Griffoh or Dark Magical Curtain to answer the opponent's board; a 0-side list leaves no targeted answer for a bad matchup (Inferred)
• Recovery: Many searchers and recursive monsters (Skull Archfiend, Black Chaos, Celtic Mystic) rebuild from GY and banish zones (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan (Verified: Side Deck size 0)

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not an average of its card scores. Its consistency rests on a dense searcher layer (19 searcher-text cards; P(at least one in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.94) feeding a 7-copy Dark Magician / Light and Darkness Ritual core that is live in about 57% of opening hands (Inferred from hypergeometric estimates). Interaction is layered: Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Maxx C, Mind Mirror Force, Spell Shattering Sword and Dark Paladin's negation give several answers, but those answers are structural only, so their combined strength is Inferred. No recorded boards exist, so the ceiling (Black Chaos, Master of Chaos, Chaos Angel) and median output are text-based estimates and are not measured. Popularity does not earn points: the archetype core is only 40% present by usage statistics, and the deck carries 5 Forbidden cards in an OCG format, so it receives a legality cap. The zero-card side deck and the lack of any dated meta sample keep Meta Power null and Tournament Reliability modest.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (not separately blended; Midrange row used). Structural ≈ 55.9, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); legality_cap (-8). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*55.9 + 0.20*50 - 20 = 34.7, rounded to 35 (Illegal-deck cap applied)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.2 · 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 layer (19 searcher-text cards) gives high starter access
• Layered interaction from hand traps and negation effects
• Strong Extra Deck closers (Black Chaos, Master of Chaos, Chaos Angel, Dark Paladin)

Weaknesses

• Five Forbidden cards make the list illegal in OCG
• No side deck, so no post-side adjustment
• Low archetype purity (19.4% exact-name), so engines may be diluted
• No recorded boards to confirm combo conversion

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician / Light and Darkness Ritual core (7 copies) is the only route to the Extra Deck boss monsters
• Losing the hand traps (Ash, Ghost Belle, Maxx C) to one interruption leaves few alternatives

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: five Forbidden cards over the copy limit (legal copies 0); Main 47 and Extra 15 are within size rules; side 0 is legal but empty; Searcher count 19 and copy histogram from the export; Extra Deck breakdown 6 Fusion / 6 Link / 3 Synchro
• Observed: Usage stats: 4 of 10 core archetype cards present (40%)
• Inferred: Starter access ≈0.94 and archetype-core live ≈57% from hypergeometric estimates; Engine ceiling and interaction strength read from card text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no dated meta or tournament link); Meta Power is null
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or unknown Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No guides attached for the archetype