Dark Magician Deck #770194 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 50 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 9 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician / Dark Magician Girl boards built through Magician's Rod, Soul Servant, Dark Magical Curtain and The Dark Magicians, closing with Dark Magician of Destruction and Mitsurugi ritual boss monsters (theoretical; Illegal list); Link/fusion pressure through Mediclius, W:P Fancy Ball and Miasma Necromancer once the Extra Deck is live
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening-hand searcher text (~93% to see at least one searcher in 5 cards) into Dark Magician / Magician's Rod, then Extra Deck fusion or link summons
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Detonating Kuriboh) to interrupt the opponent's first engine, then Dark Magician Girl / Magicians' Combination recovery
• Recovery: Dark Magical Circle, Magician's Rod and Soul Servant recur Dark Magician-named cards from Deck and GY; Ghost Belle recovers from the GY
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 side cards, so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in OCG: it runs eight Forbidden cards (including two Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, which is also a copy-limit violation), Mitsurugi Prayers at 3 copies against a limit of 1, and Ash Blossom at 3 copies against a limit of 2. Under the rubric it does not receive a normal Final Contextual score, so the 20 is a capped, theoretical, structural-only read. The structural read (about 44 on balanced weights) comes from searcher density (about 93% to see one searcher in an opening 5), a large hand-trap package (7 cards), and a full 15-card Extra Deck. Those strengths are offset by a low exact-archetype purity (16.9%, spread across Mitsurugi, Prophecy, Diabellstar and others), a 50-card main with 34 distinct cards and no side deck, and the loss of several Extra Deck options to the ban list. No recorded boards, tournament record or metagame sample exist, so no ceiling, median or meta claim is supported. Archetype popularity was not credited, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 44, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); illegal cap (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (= 42.2), then modifiers (-12, banlist exposure) = 30.2, then Illegal cap applied, final score 20

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · 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 (20 cards) gives roughly 93% to find a searcher in an opening hand (Inferred)
• Seven hand traps and about 12 negation-text cards form a real interaction package on paper (Inferred)
• Full 15-card Extra Deck with 8 Link and 6 Fusion cards gives the deck several closers (Verified)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: eight Forbidden cards, plus copy-limit violations on Mitsurugi Prayers and Ash Blossom (Verified)
• Exact-archetype purity is 16.9%; the deck mixes Dark Magician, Mitsurugi, Prophecy, Diabellstar, Kuriboh and others (Verified)
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptability (Verified)
• No recorded boards, tournament data or win telemetry, so the ceiling and median are unmeasured (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician / Dark Magician Girl must be live for the engine; Magician's Rod and Soul Servant are the main access (Inferred)
• Extra Deck closers are constrained by the Forbidden list (Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Azamina Ilia Silvia, Number 60, Charmer Quartet) (Verified)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status with 9 violations (copy limits and Forbidden cards) from legality; Main 50 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts; main size within the 40-60 OCG range; Exact-archetype purity 16.9%; Searcher-text group P(>=1 in opening 5) = 0.9327; Archetype-core inclusion rates from usage_statistics
• Inferred: Midrange primary strategy with Toolbox and Stun secondaries, from text and composition (no boards); Going-first and going-second estimates from hand-trap and searcher density; D1-D14 scores, all derived from text and probabilities
• Provisional: Meta Power (null): no dated metagame sample; D13 matchup and format fit: no tournament or meta data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) No side deck: post-side plan cannot be evaluated Deck title is null Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample