Dark Magician Deck #772689 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician-based Fusion and Link boards (Dark Magician of Destruction, Dark Paladin - Wave-Motion, Timaeus, Master of Chaos) supported by Dark Magician searches and hand traps.; Diabellstar / Azamina / Primite side lines that reach Extra Deck bosses through Searchers and Fusion or Ritual enablers.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Dark Magician Girl / Magician's Rod / Primite Lordly Lode to search, then build toward a Fusion or Link Summon while holding Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence for interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird and Dominus Impulse to stop the opponent's board-building before committing to an Extra Deck summon.
• Recovery: Dark Magical Curtain and Dark Magical Circle reload Dark Magician and Dark Magician-named Spell/Traps from the Deck, and Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws back cards when the opponent Special Summons.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The score comes from the deck as a system, not from averaging its cards: the Dark Magician core is only partly built (9 core copies, about a 60% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand), and 61 of 56 main-deck copies sit outside the exact Dark Magician archetype name, so the engine is split across Prophecy, Primite, Dominus, Azamina, Branded and PSY-Frame. Interaction is the strongest area: 9 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards give several answers on either turn, which keeps the deck alive through disruption. There are no recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inferences and sit in the 35–40 range. Popularity and archetype usage were not used as evidence of strength. Because the list breaks the OCG copy limit (five Forbidden cards run), the deck is capped at 20 and scored as theoretical and structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap applied. Uncapped 0.80*Structural(48) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 46; capped to 20 because the deck runs five Forbidden cards. Meta Power is provisional (null). Theoretical and structural only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.6 · 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 suite: Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird and Dominus Impulse give answers on both turns.
• Multiple searchers (16 cards with search text) raise the chance of finding a starter.
• Extra Deck bosses reach 2800–3000 ATK.

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: five Forbidden cards must be removed before the deck is playable.
• Low archetype purity (14.1%) splits the engine across many sub-archetypes.
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation.

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician core: 9 copies, about a 40% chance of none in a 5-card opening hand.
• Extra Deck Fusion access depends on a few Dark Magician-named materials.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: five Forbidden cards at 1 copy each, OCG Main 56 and Extra 15 within size limits.; Copy histogram and archetype purity (14.1%) from the evidence pack.; Side Deck is empty.
• Inferred: Engine consistency from hypergeometric estimates (about 0.60 core, 0.83 searcher text).; Interaction quality from hand-trap and negation text.; Ceiling and median from text only, with no recorded boards.
• Provisional: Format fit and archetype meta-share (no dated meta sample or tournament link).
• Data gaps: No recorded combos: combo ceiling, median and floor are text-only inference. No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record are absent. No win-rate, brick or matchup telemetry exists in YGOVN. Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample. No Side Deck: post-side adaptability cannot be measured.