Dark Magician Deck #772781 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Large Fusion boss (Invoked / Branded / Albaz-type Fusion Monsters such as Hyperinvoked Aeon, Invoked Elysium, Lubellion) built through Fusion Summon routes, with Dark Magician-named support; Synchro and Link bosses (Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Despian Luluwalilith, Artemis) for extra board pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a searcher or Fusion enabler (Primite Lordly Lode, Branded Fusion, Fusion Deployment) and try to reach an Invoked or Branded Fusion boss; the 4 Forbidden cards are not legal and must be removed before this line can be played
• Turn 2 (going second): Use 6 hand-trap and negation cards (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Maxx "C", Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru) to interrupt the opponent and then take the board with a Fusion boss
• Recovery: Recur through Mulcharmy, Aleister and Ecclesia-line searchers; the 16 searcher-text cards are the main recovery source (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck (Side Deck size 0)

Why it scores here

This list is illegal: four Forbidden cards (Triple Tactics Talent, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Azamina Ilia Silvia, Albion the Branded Dragon) are each run once, so the deck gets a structural-only estimate capped low, not a normal Final score. The deck reliably opens a searcher or Fusion enabler (P(at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.93, Inferred), but it runs 41 singleton cards from roughly 27 sub-archetypes, so the archetype core is present for only 4 of 9 usage-core cards (purity 3.6%) and the lines do not reinforce each other. The deck has real interaction density (6 hand traps, 6 negation texts, 11 removal texts) that gives it a credible going-second plan. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged; the score comes from the system: fragmented engine coherence, no recorded boards for ceiling or median, no side deck, and four Forbidden cards.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 45, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 46, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflicts (-4); no side deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal-deck cap. Pre-cap: 0.80*Structural(45) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 43, + modifiers (-12) = 31, capped to 25 because the list is Illegal. Meta Power provisional/null. Structural-only, theoretical estimate.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · 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

• Broad interaction package: 6 hand traps, 6 negation texts, 11 removal texts
• High searcher density (16 searcher-text cards) gives a likely opening starter
• Multiple high-ATK Fusion bosses available in the Extra Deck (up to 4000 ATK)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: four Forbidden cards at 1 copy each
• Very low archetype purity (3.6%) across about 27 sub-archetypes
• No side deck
• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Fusion Summon of the boss monster depends on Branded Fusion or Fallen of Albaz routes that are Limited/Semi-Limited to 1 copy
• Several Forbidden Extra-Deck bosses are the highest-ATK options and must be removed before the deck is legal

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 4 copies of Forbidden cards (Triple Tactics Talent, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Azamina Ilia Silvia, Albion the Branded Dragon) in the list; Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 sizes against the OCG size rules; Banlist tokens for the Limited and Semi-Limited cards; Usage stats: 4 of 9 core cards present (44.4%)
• Inferred: D1 consistency from the searcher-text hypergeometric estimate (P≈0.93); Brick and hand-trap estimates from singleton and role-tag counts; Interaction density from negation and removal text counts; Structural score and weight profile choice (Toolbox)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament data)
• 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: post-side plan is not evaluable deck title is null in the export