Magical Musket Deck #772148 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 59 / Extra 13 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Fusion boss monsters (Underworld Goddess of the Closed World, Fiendsmith's Desirae, Magical Musketeer Max) built from a Musket and Fiendsmith board; Mulcharmy draw-engine card advantage over a long game
• Turn 1 (going first): Search or draw a Musket or Fiendsmith starter, use Magical Musket Spell/Trap activations to Special Summon and search, then Link Summon Max or Agnumday for board presence. Hand traps are held for the opponent's first big play.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru and the Musket negations to stop the opponent's opening combo, then rebuild a Link board from the GY using the Musket recursion effects.
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia draw cards when the hand empties. Musket Spell/Traps can be reactivated from the Deck through Starfire, Caspar and Doc once a Musket monster is on board.
• After siding: Not evaluable. The deck has no side deck (side_count 0), so it has no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck has a real midrange plan: Magical Musket Spell/Traps and monsters give repeatable interaction and recursion, and Mulcharmy monsters add draws. Its 17 searcher-text cards put a starter in the opening five about 83% of the time (Inferred, hypergeometric). Interaction is the strongest part: 9 hand traps and 17 negation-text cards let it answer a first big play, so D7 scores well. The score is held down by the legality failure, the lack of recorded combos, and a split engine across Musket, Fiendsmith and Mulcharmy, which leaves the Fiendsmith core running more copies than OCG allows. Popularity and archetype share earned no points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score. Because the list is Illegal, the normal formula was applied and then capped low; the result describes the structure only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.8 Midrange + 0.2 Stun (for the Stun-leaning hand-trap package). Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-10); No side deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + Modifiers = 0.80*54 + 0.20*45 − 12 ≈ 40; illegal-list cap applied, final 30 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · 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

• Strong interaction package: 9 hand traps and 17 negation-text cards cover both turns
• Musket Spell/Traps recur and search, so a single starter can create several turns of value
• Link bosses (Goddess, Max, Agnumday) give a high board ceiling

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 4 copy-limit or banlist violations, so it cannot be played as built
• Engine split across Musket, Fiendsmith and Mulcharmy; only 30.6% of cards match the exact archetype
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Only 9 of 25 core usage cards are present (36%)

Critical choke points

• Musket Spell/Traps need a Musket monster on board; without one, several cards are dead
• Fiendsmith engine requires Engraver and Tract, which are over the OCG copy limit
• Link summons depend on the Extra Deck materials being in place, and no board data exists to confirm the routes

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 4 copy-limit/banlist violations in OCG; status Illegal; Main 59 and Extra 13 are within size rules (0–15 Extra, 40–60 Main); Side count is 0; Card text for the 9 hand traps, 17 negation cards and the 10 Link monsters; Archetype spread: Musket 22, Fiendsmith 16, Mulcharmy 5, generic 25
• Observed: Usage statistics: 9 of 25 core cards present (36%)
• Inferred: P(>=1 starter in 5) ≈ 0.83 for the searcher group; P(>=1 hand trap in 6 going second) ≈ 0.65; Engine redundancy and resilience ratings (D1, D5, D6, D7, D8); Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power: null, no dated metagame sample supplied; Matchup fit (D13): no tournament link or meta-share data; Tournament Reliability (45): estimated from brick risk and the lack of a side deck
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchups or brick/starter rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck, so post-side adaptability cannot be measured Deck title is null in the export