Dark Magician Deck #770397 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 52/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Midrange
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss (Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Paladin, Super Starslayer TY-PHON, Underworld Goddess, Master of Chaos) reached through Dark Magician-engine searches and Fusion/Xyz/Link summons; Timaeus the United Dragon Special Summon plus Fusion Summon via The Gaze of Timaeus, with Illusion of Chaos (Ritual) as the Chaos link into Master of Chaos
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Dark Magical Curtain, Timaeus or Illusion of Chaos, each 3 copies, about 43% per opening hand) and convert it into a Dark Magician or Dark Magician Girl search and a first Extra Deck summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand gives about 50% per triple-copy starter; use Nibiru as a conditional hand trap against 5+ summons and negation text on Dark Paladin, Magicians' Combination and Evolzar Lars to contest the board, then convert through the Extra Deck
• Recovery: Magicians' Souls and Soul Servant draw cards and return DARK Spellcasters to the Deck or GY; Magicians' Combination can summon from the GY, so a lost board can rebuild through the Dark Magician family
• After siding: No side deck is registered (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan; any adjustment has to come from changing the main deck between sessions

Why it scores here

The deck can reliably open into its engine: the archetype-core probability is very high (about 0.99), and three triple-copy starters (Dark Magical Curtain, Timaeus, Illusion of Chaos) each give about 43% in a five-card opening hand. Its real strength is breadth of Extra Deck payoffs and negation text (Dark Paladin, Dragoon, Evolzar Lars, Master of Chaos, Underworld Goddess), which gives it several ways to convert advantage into a board. The score is held back by a scattered engine: only 8 of 30 main-deck copies have the exact Dark Magician name (20.5% exact-name purity), and the Evolsaur/Evoltile Reptile cluster and Evolzar Xyz need their own starters, which creates bricks and conflicting lines. No recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences. Popularity and archetype-stat presence did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged or summed into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: engine_conflicts (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers; 0.80*56.24 + 0.20*52.0 = 55.4, then -3 modifier = 52

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.43 · 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

• Three triple-copy starters give a consistent first summon
• Dense negation/removal text across main and Extra Deck
• Multiple 2900-3000 ATK Extra Deck bosses

Weaknesses

• Low exact-name purity (20.5%) and mixed sub-archetype engines
• Off-engine Reptile/Dinosaur cluster adds bricks
• No side deck and no recorded boards to validate the line

Critical choke points

• Single-path reliance on triple-copy starters for turn-1 access
• Extra Deck boss dependence on Fusion Dragoon and Dark Paladin materials

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under BanDuelLink; main 30 within [20,30]; extra 9 within [0,9]; all cards Unlimited; 0 violations; Archetype spread and exact-name purity 20.5% from preprocessing; Triple-copy starter draw odds 0.4335 (hand 5) and 0.5015 (hand 6); Usage stats: 47.6% core presence before accounting for Extra Deck placement
• Inferred: Engine consistency and bricks from hypergeometric odds and text; Interaction density from negation and removal text roles; Going-first and going-second power from component dimensions; Ceiling and median from text only, with no recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13); Side plan (D12) given zero side cards
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference (combos_evidence total_combos 0) No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate, going-first/second or brick telemetry in YGOVN Usage-stat in_this_deck flags ignore the Extra Deck: Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon (2), Master of Chaos (1) and S:P Little Knight (1) appear as missing core cards although the deck runs them, so the 47.6% core-present figure is understated Guide snippets are short and carry no section data (section_count 0 on all six guides); guide 1489 snippet is empty Deck title is null and no side deck is registered