Magistus Deck #770083 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion-summon 2800-3000 ATK bosses (Dracotail Arthalion, Dracotail Gulamel, Zoroa the Magistus Verethragna, Zoroa the Magistus Conflagrant Calamity) and Chaos Angel (3500 ATK) off the Dracotail and Magistus starters, while hand traps and Raigeki clear the way.; Dracotail Shaulas and Magistus Chorozo as follow-up boards, with Aiwass and Dracotail Gulamel as recursive or disruptive extra-deck threats.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dracotail starter (Faimena, Pan, Urgula, Lukias, Ketu or Rahu) or a Spenta search, then Fusion Summon a Dracotail boss from the Extra Deck using hand and field material while holding Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler or Infinite Impermanence for the opponent's first answer.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use one of the 10 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird, Forbidden Droplet, Infinite Impermanence) to stop the opponent's starter, then rebuild with a Dracotail or Magistus search and a Fusion or Synchro boss.
• Recovery: Recur Dracotail monsters and Spell/Trap cards from the GY or banishment with Faimena, Urgula, Lukias, Gulamel and Dracotail Flame or Horn, then re-run Fusion Summons from the Extra Deck.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered in this export (side_count 0), so there is no evidenced post-side plan; the deck would need a 15-card Side Deck to adapt in best-of-3.

Why it scores here

The deck's power comes from the system: a Dracotail starter layer (about 14 copies across Faimena, Pan, Urgula, Lukias, Ketu, Rahu, Mululu, Horn and Flame) gives a high chance of a live starter by turn 1-2, and the Magistus Spenta searches (3 copies) add a second independent route. The Extra Deck (15 cards) supplies high-ATK closers, so the deck converts an opening into a 2800-3000 ATK board. Interaction is dense (about 10 hand traps, 13 negation-text and 14 removal-text cards, plus Raigeki and Harpie's Feather Duster), which lets it survive one disruption and stop the opponent's first answer. The score is held back by the absence of a Side Deck, the lack of recorded boards (combo floor and median are text-only inference), and a three-engine split across Dracotail, Magistus and Bystial. Popularity and archetype share were not counted, the card scores were not averaged, and Meta Power stays provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange, meta-neutral: D13 dropped and the other weights renormalized over 95. Structural ≈ 62.7, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 54. Modifiers: Engine conflict (-3); Banlist exposure (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta null/provisional): 0.80*62.7 + 0.20*54 = 60.96, then -5 modifiers = 56

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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 interaction (10 hand traps plus Raigeki and Harpie's Duster) that can protect the first starter
• Two starter routes (Dracotail and Spenta) with redundancy at 3 copies each
• High-ATK Extra Deck closers (2800-3500 ATK)
• Recursion through Dracotail GY effects keeps resources flowing

Weaknesses

• Zero Side Deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Three engines compete for slots and the deck is split across Dracotail, Magistus and Bystial
• Many conditional hand traps can be dead cards without a matching opponent play
• Heavy reliance on single Limited cards in starter and interaction roles

Critical choke points

• Losing the first Dracotail or Spenta starter to a hand trap or Droll & Lock Bird
• Needing the specific Extra Deck boss to be Fusion Summonable from hand and field materials

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; every Limited and Semi-Limited copy count is within its limit; Card text, types, stats and banlist status for every listed card; Usage stat: Crowley, Zoroa the Magistus of Flame and Spenta are core cards (inclusion 93.75%, 68.75%, 50%)
• Inferred: Starter consistency (about 0.90 Dracotail starter in 5 cards); Hand-trap and interaction value from card text; Going-first and going-second power estimates; Resilience and recovery from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup/format fit (50, excluded from Structural)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists no Side Deck entries, so no post-side data Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample