Dark Magician Deck #770568 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox, Ritual, Fusion, Link
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician-named payoffs and Ritual/Link boards (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Chaos Angel, Azamina) closing through board presence; no recorded boards to confirm the route.; Mitsurugi Ritual recursion into Ame no Murakumo / Futsu no Mitama boards, and Azamina Fusion pressure through Sinful Spoils recursion.
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Ritual/search starter such as Pre-Preparation of Rites, Ragged Records of Rites, or Magician's Rod into a Ritual Spell (Light and Darkness Ritual or Mitsurugi Ritual) and a Ritual Monster, with Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, or Nibiru held up as interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Respond to the opponent's board with hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru, Kuriboh - Multiply!, The Great Gallant Bandit) and rebuild through Ritual Spell recursion from the GY.
• Recovery: Recover through Mitsurugi and Sinful Spoils recursion from the GY and banish zone, plus Mind Shuffle and Ragged Records of Rites to re-find Ritual Spells and monsters.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan in the list.

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal (Extra Deck 16 over the 15 cap, Ash Blossom 3 vs 2, WANTED 3 vs 1, Pre-Preparation of Rites 2 vs 1), so the score is a theoretical, structural-only read capped low and is not a normal Final Contextual score. The system is a multi-engine Ritual/Link/Fusion shell with 28 searcher-text cards and 7 hand traps, which gives reasonable access to a starter, but the sub-engines (Light and Darkness Ritual, Mitsurugi, Sinful Spoils, Azamina) compete for slots and only 5 of 60 Main cards carry the exact Dark Magician name. No recorded boards, tournament link, or win-rate data exist, so the floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference and Meta Power stays provisional. The 0-side list removes any post-side plan, and the archetype's usage stats (47.6% of core cards present) confirm the list is real but earn no power points. The score was built from the 14 system dimensions with the Combo profile, not by averaging the 60 individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 54.5, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist and copy-limit exposure (-7); Engine conflicts (-5). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*54.5 + 0.20*45 - 12 = 40.6, then capped to 35 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical structural-only read).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.22 (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 (28 cards) gives high starter access in opening 5
• 7 hand traps and 12 negation-text cards give layered interaction
• Multiple Ritual Spell and Mitsurugi recursion routes give GY resource regeneration

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Extra Deck over by 1 and three cards over copy limits
• Very low archetype purity (6.6%) with three competing sub-engines
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Complex multi-engine pilot requirements

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual / Mitsurugi Ritual Spell needed to convert Ritual Monsters
• Single-copy Dark Magician payoffs (5 exact-name copies) for the archetype identity

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60 and Extra 16 counts; Extra 16 exceeds the 15 cap; Copy violations: Ash Blossom 3 vs 2, WANTED 3 vs 1, Pre-Preparation 2 vs 1; Exact-name purity 6.6% and 71 off-archetype copies; 0 Side Deck cards; 28 searcher-text, 7 hand-trap, 25 removal-text cards by composition
• Inferred: Starter access ~0.96 in opening 5 (hypergeometric, searcher text); Core-group brick proxy ~0.22; Interaction and recursion quality from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates from the structural read
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament data)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null