Dark Magician Deck #772534 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 39/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 8 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Link and Fusion) and Ritual boss monsters such as Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier and Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi, after a Mitsurugi or Light and Darkness Ritual engine; Dark Magician, the Pharaoh's Servant and Dark Magician of Destruction (absent) as recursive attackers; direct pressure from Link monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a searcher or Ritual Spell (Mind Shuffle, Pre-Preparation of Rites, Mitsurugi Ritual), search the Mitsurugi or Light and Darkness Ritual engine, and Ritual Summon a boss; protect with Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Droll & Lock Bird (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 9 hand traps to break the opponent's starter or first summon, then take the board with a Ritual boss or Silent Magician (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recycle Ritual monsters from the GY through Ragged Records of Rites, Mitsurugi Prayers and Dark Magical Curtain to rebuild the Ritual engine (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: no side deck is present (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in OCG: eight Forbidden cards are run (three Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi plus Triple Tactics Talent, Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Link Decoder, Reprodocus, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Protectcode Talker and Knightmare Gryphon), so the score is theoretical and structural only. The system reads as a midrange Ritual and Link toolbox: the searcher text group is strong (P(at least one searcher in a 5-card hand) about 0.89, Inferred), and nine hand traps give it real interaction, with P(at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand going second) about 0.64 (Inferred). Its ceiling depends on Ritual bosses that are only partly supported by the core, and no recorded boards exist to measure median output. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype core is only 4 of 9 usage-listed cards present, and the score was not built by averaging individual card scores. The Final score uses the 0.80 Structural plus 0.20 Tournament Reliability formula with a -12 banlist-exposure modifier, and Meta Power is null because no dated meta sample exists.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: primary Midrange; Toolbox used as the secondary read without a separate weight profile. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); Illegal, so theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · 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 searcher text (21 cards) gives reliable access to the engine
• Nine hand traps give layered interaction on both going first and going second
• Ritual and Link bosses give a high ceiling

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: eight Forbidden cards must be removed
• Low archetype purity (1.3%) across 21 sub-archetypes weakens engine coherence
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• No recorded combos or win data to confirm the ceiling

Critical choke points

• Ritual Summon requires a Ritual Spell plus tributes; losing the Ritual Spell or the tribute fodder stops the main line
• Extra Deck depends on Link materials, and the Forbidden Link monsters are unusable in OCG

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 8 Forbidden cards over the copy limit; 60 main, 15 extra, 0 side; within size rules; Card text and banlist status for every listed card; Usage stats: 4 of 9 core cards present
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities for starter, searcher and hand-trap groups; Midrange plus Toolbox strategy read; Going-first and going-second plans and dimension scores
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; Tournament Reliability (45): no tournament or win data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck: post-side adaptability cannot be measured