Dark Magician Deck #772366 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Unverifiable from evidence: no combos and no guides; a Yummy/Dark Magician Synchro-Link board is the presumed route (Inferred).; Dark Magician of Destruction-style Fusion/Synchro pressure is not present in the list; secondary route is Mulcharmy draw-punish (Inferred).
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Mulcharmy and Yummy starters (about 25% per 3-copy card in a 5-card hand), then go to Link/Synchro summons. Hand traps are held back for the opponent's turn. Inferred.
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with about 79% chance of at least one hand trap (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Maxx C, Nibiru, Droll, Infinite Impermanence). Negate the opponent's first engine, then rebuild. Inferred.
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia draw on the opponent's summons; Dark Magical Curtain and Witch of the Black Forest supply searches. Recovery depends on the Forbidden and Limited cards that are not legal in this format. Inferred.
• After siding: No side deck is submitted (Side Deck size 0). No post-side plan exists in the evidence, so none is credited.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: the list carries 12 hand traps, 20 negation-text cards and 16 removal-text cards, which earn credit for interaction density (D7) and for holding up a going-second hand (D8). Engine reliability is modest. Archetype purity is only 2.9% exact-name, and the core engines (Yummy, Mulcharmy) appear at 1-3 copies in a 55-card main, so the chance of a live starter in a 5-card opening hand is about 25% per three-copy card. Combo output is unmeasured (no parseable boards), so ceiling and median are text-only estimates. The deck is Illegal: five cards break copy or Forbidden limits and no side deck is submitted, so it receives a theoretical cap of 25 instead of a normal Final Contextual score. Archetype usage data showed three of nine core cards present; that confirms the list is recognisable but adds no power credit. No card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 44.6, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: Structural 44.6 and Tournament Reliability 35 give 0.80*44.6 + 0.20*35 = 42.7 before modifiers; the deck is Illegal so the score is capped at 25 (theoretical/structural only). Meta Power provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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 interaction: 12 hand traps, 20 negation-text cards and 16 removal-text cards
• High going-second hand-trap coverage (about 79%)
• Mulcharmy draw engine punishes summons

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 5 cards over copy limit or Forbidden
• Very low archetype purity (2.9% exact-name)
• No side deck and no post-side plan
• No measurable combo output

Critical choke points

• Core starters appear at 1-3 copies, so most opening hands miss the engine
• Several Forbidden or Limited engine cards would need to be removed before the deck is legal

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 5 violations and 15 restricted cards in the OCG list; Main count 55 (within 40-60), Extra 15 (within 0-15), Side 0; Card text and stats for all 32 distinct main and 15 extra cards; Archetype usage: 3 of 9 core cards present
• Observed: No measured boards or win data (none exist)
• Inferred: Starter probabilities from hypergeometric draws (25%, 51%, 79%); Going-second hand-trap coverage and interaction density scores; Toolbox strategy classification
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates no side deck submitted, so no post-side evidence deck title is null