Dark Magician Deck #770492 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 10 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boards through Yummy Synchro/Link chains and Chaos Angel or Dark Magician of Destruction (Inferred; no recorded boards); Dark Magician / Magician-archetype Fusion and Synchro bodies with hand-trap protection (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a 2-card starter (Yummy or Dark Magician Pharaoh's Servant) and rely on Yummy Link-1 enablers; each 3-copy starter appears in only about 26% of opening 5-card hands (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's hand traps (Ash, Imp, Droll, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Nibiru) to answer the first monster or summon, then Synchro/Link out (Inferred)
• Recovery: Searchers and recursion from the GY (Yummy, Magicians, Sky Striker) plus hand traps that also cost no board space (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in TCG as submitted: its Extra Deck has 17 cards (limit 15), it runs five Forbidden cards, and four cards exceed their Limited or Semi-Limited copy caps, so it does not receive a normal Final Contextual score and is capped at 20 as a theoretical, structural-only read. Structurally it is a toolbox-style list spread across at least 18 archetype or family tags (exact-name purity 2.8%), with 17 hand-trap-type cards that give strong going-second interaction (P(at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand) about 0.91, Inferred) and dense removal and negation text. Its opening-hand engine is weak: each 3-copy starter appears in only about 26% of opening 5-card hands, and the Yummy, Branded, Mulcharmy, Sky Striker and Bystial pieces share few enablers. No combos or tournament records were supplied, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-only reads and are not averaged from individual card scores. Popularity of the Dark Magician label earned no points on its own.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Structural ≈ 42, Going First ≈ 38, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 33. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); engine_conflicts (-4); illegal_cap (0). Final formula: Structural (Toolbox profile) = 42; 0.80*42 + 0.20*33 + modifiers(-12) = 28, then capped at 20 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only read)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.26 · 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 hand-trap and negation package for going second (17 hand-trap-type cards, about 0.91 chance of at least one in hand of 6)
• Several independent disruption routes (Ash, Imp, Droll, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Typhoon)
• High-impact Extra Deck closers (Chaos Angel, Dark Magician of Destruction, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in TCG: Extra Deck size, five Forbidden cards and four copy-limit overruns
• Very low exact archetype purity (2.8%), so the engines do not reinforce each other
• Low opening-hand starter access (about 26% per 3-copy starter in a 5-card hand)
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Forbidden Albion, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon and Called by the Grave remove the Branded and Red-Eyes Fusion routes entirely
• Yummy Link-1 enabler requirement gates most Synchro and Link lines
• Extra Deck of 17 cards cannot be legally submitted

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Extra Deck 17 > 15, five Forbidden cards, four copy-limit overruns; Main Deck size 54 is within the 40-60 range; Usage stats: Yummy-core and Dark Magician-core cards appear across the archetype
• Inferred: Going-second hand-trap coverage is strong (about 0.91 for at least one in a 6-card hand); Starter access per 3-copy card is about 0.26 in a 5-card opening hand; Engine conflict across at least 18 archetype tags
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no tournament link or dated meta sample); Meta Power (null)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second, matchup and starter rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck; post-side plan cannot be evaluated