Dark Magician Deck #772627 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 12 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Level 8+ boss monsters (Masquerade the Blazing Dragon, Mirrorjade, Titaniklad, Dramaturge of Despia, Albion/Fallen of Albaz) via Polymerization-family spells and Branded/Despia engine cards, then attack or use the 600 LP tax on the opponent.; Fallen of Albaz / Branded Fusion / Branded in Red loop that recycles Fallen of Albaz and Despia monsters from the GY to rebuild a Fusion board.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Frightfur Patchwork, Edge Imp Chain, Despian Tragedy, Branded Opening) that fetches a Polymerization-family spell, then Fusion Summon a Level 8+ boss from the Extra Deck.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru or Forbidden Droplet to disrupt the opponent's first board, then continue into a Fusion line from the hand.
• Recovery: Recover from GY through Despian Tragedy, Branded Sword, Fallen of Albaz and Branded in Red, which add monsters and spells back to the hand.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan. Any post-side plan is Inferred only and cannot be scored from data.

Why it scores here

The deck's engine is a Fusion chain: Polymerization-family spells and searchers (Frightfur Patchwork, Edge Imp Chain, Despian Tragedy, Branded Opening) reach Level 8+ bosses, and Fallen of Albaz and Branded spells supply recursion. Its consistency is moderate, not strong: P(at least one Polymerization-family spell in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.25 per copy, and about 17 cards run one copy, so a fair share of hands stall. Interaction is dense (two Ash Blossom, two Infinite Impermanence, two Forbidden Droplet, Droll & Lock Bird, Raigeki, Harpie's Feather Duster, Twin Twisters), which earns the interaction and going-second dimensions. The deck has no side deck and two cards run over their legal limits, so the Illegal status caps the final score low. No combo boards, win rates or tournament results are recorded, so the ceiling and median scores are text-based Inferred estimates. Popularity and archetype label earned no points: the archetype is labelled Dark Magician but no Dark Magician cards are run (0% exact-name purity), and the score is not an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, no secondary blend applied to the structural weights. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); no side deck (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame, so Meta is provisional: Final = min(0.80*56 + 0.20*45 + modifiers(-12), Illegal cap 30) = 30. The deck is Illegal (copy-limit violations), so the normal Final is not scored and the Illegal cap applies.

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 starter and searcher density (20 searcher-text cards), so a searcher is usually in hand
• Layered interaction suite (Ash Blossom x2, Infinite Impermanence x2, Forbidden Droplet x2, Droll & Lock Bird)
• High-ATK Level 8+ bosses with recursion from the GY

Weaknesses

• Two copy-limit violations make the list illegal as built
• Fusion chain depends on Polymerization-family spells, about 0.25 per copy in a 5-card hand
• No side deck
• Archetype label mismatches the deck's true engine (Dark Magician label, no Dark Magician cards)

Critical choke points

• Polymerization-family spells: every Fusion line needs one, and three copies in the Deck is a single point of failure
• Despia / Branded searchers that depend on the Fusion chain being live

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 55 main, 12 extra, 0 side; Allure of Darkness 3/1 and Super Polymerization 3/2 over limit; Card text and banlist status for all resolved cards; Composition: 28 spells, 20 monsters, 4 traps, 12 Fusion Monsters; 0 side cards
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter odds (Polymerization-family about 0.25 per copy; searcher about 0.91); Interaction density (Ash x2, IF x2, Droplet x2, Droll, plus removal spells); Going-first and going-second estimates from card text; Boss closing power from ATK values and the 600 LP tax
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament data); Side deck adaptability (no side deck registered)
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck registered (Side Deck size 0) deck title is null and archetype label 'Dark Magician' does not match the card list (no Dark Magician cards, 0% exact-name purity)