Dark Magician Deck #772545 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 43 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician / Dark Magician Girl board converted through Fusion (Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, Dark Magician of Destruction) and Link/Synchro pressure (Chaos Angel, Secreterion Dragon, W:P Fancy Ball); Primite Dragon Nether Berzelius negation-plus-pressure board, and Blue-Eyes Tyrant Dragon as a late-game beatstick
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Magician's Rod, Dark Magical Curtain, Secrets of Dark Magic or Primite Lordly Lode to reach Normal Summon and Fusion access; keep Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre up as hand traps
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C and Primite Drillbeam to stop the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Eternal Soul and Magician of Black Chaos MAX
• Recovery: Recover from GY through Primite Fusion, Soul Servant and Mulcharmy Fuwalos draw effects to refill hand with Dark Magician-named cards
• After siding: Not evaluable: no side deck is present in the export (side_count 0)

Why it scores here

The deck's main engine is a Dark Magician-named core supported by a large amount of Primite and Polymerization-style Fusion access, and that plan reliably produces a board on going first, but the 14-card Extra Deck of fusion, link and synchro monsters means many openings are dependent on one or two specific materials. Interaction density is good: Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C, Primite Drillbeam and two negation-capable Extra Deck monsters give layered answers on the opponent's turn. The score reflects the structural read of the list only, with no recorded boards, no side deck and no meta sample, so the consistency and resilience estimates are Inferred from text and hypergeometric draw odds. The deck is illegal in OCG as built: Charmer Quartet in Bloom and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon are Forbidden and run one copy each, so the score is capped and labelled theoretical. The score did not come from averaging card scores or from the archetype's popularity, which is not evidenced here.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflict (-2). Final formula: Pre-cap: 0.80*Structural(53) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-10) = 41; Illegal cap applied, final score set to 25 (theoretical / structural-only, Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.71 · 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

• Layered hand traps and negation text (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C, Primite Drillbeam) give strong interaction on the opponent's turn
• High-ATK closers (Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, Blue-Eyes Tyrant Dragon, Chaos Angel) convert advantage into lethal pressure
• Strong searcher density (21 searcher-text cards) reduces dead-hand risk

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: two Forbidden cards are run in-format
• Low exact-name purity (20.7%) means the Dark Magician engine is diluted by Primite and generic cards
• No side deck, so post-side adaptability is unknown and likely weak
• Heavy Extra-Deck dependence (15 cards, mostly specific-material Fusion and Link monsters)

Critical choke points

• Charmer Quartet in Bloom and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon are Forbidden; removing them is required before any normal score applies
• Most Fusion lines depend on one Dark Magician-named monster being on the field or in the GY

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: two Forbidden cards run at 1 copy each; main 43 and extra 15 fall within size rules; Card stats and text for all 43 main and 15 extra cards; Composition: 8 Fusion, 6 Link, 1 Synchro in Extra Deck; 12/43 exact Dark Magician copies
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter access estimate of ~0.71 for the archetype core (hypergeometric); Interaction density read from negation/removal/hand-trap text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• 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 exists in YGOVN — brick, starter and matchup rates are Inferred or Unknown no side deck in export — post-side plan and D12 are unevaluable Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied