Dark Magician Deck #772793 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 39/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Boss monsters from Extra Deck (Black Skull Dragon, Chaos Angel, Master of Chaos, Dark Paladin, Timaeus) after a ritual or fusion line, with Dark Magician-named support; Link and synchro boards from the Link/Synchro pieces (Underworld Goddess, Chaos Angel, A Bao A Qu) on top of the Dark Magician package
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a searcher (Magician's Rod, Ragged Records, Dark Magical Circle, Mind Shuffle) to a Dark Magician-named line; hold Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre for the first interruption
• Turn 2 (going second): Open on hand traps (Nibiru, Ghost Ogre, Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird) to stop the opponent's summon, then rebuild through Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Dark Magical Curtain
• Recovery: Recurse Dark Magician-named monsters and Spell cards from the GY via Magicians' Combination, Soul Servant and Skull Archfiend of Chaos; redeploy one boss
• After siding: No side deck (Side Deck size 0): no post-side plan exists in the list as submitted

Why it scores here

The list is scored as a connected system, not as an average of its card scores. Its starter access is reasonable: the searcher text group gives roughly an 82% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), but the Dark Magician core is split across several sub-archetypes (Light and Darkness Ritual, Chaos, Dominus, Prophecy, Mulcharmy, Greed, Solemn), and only 11 of 60 Main Deck cards are named Dark Magician, so the engine is spread thin. Interaction is the strongest part of the build: Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Lock Bird, Dominus Impulse, Solemn Accusation, Griffoh and Spell Shattering Sword cover several interruption types. Conversion is structurally plausible through the ritual and fusion boss monsters, but no recorded boards exist, so both the ceiling and the median are text-only inference. The list is Illegal: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are each run three times against a Semi-Limited limit of two. That caps the score and makes it theoretical. Popularity was not credited: the archetype usage data shows only 44% of the core present and no tournament record.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Balanced (default; no strategy profile is clear). Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Copy-limit violation (Illegal list) (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(52.4) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-12) = 38.9, rounded to 39; Meta provisional; theoretical only because the list is Illegal

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · 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 interaction suite: Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse, Solemn Accusation, Ghost Ogre, Spell Shattering Sword
• Strong searcher density (17 searcher-text cards) gives good starter access
• Several 3000+ ATK bosses and a full 15-card Extra Deck with Link, Fusion and Synchro options

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: two cards run over the Semi-Limited copy limit
• Engine coherence is low: only 14.7% exact archetype purity across 8 sub-archetypes
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combos or tournament data to confirm the conversion

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician-named starters are mostly single copies (Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl, Black Chaos, Magician of Black Chaos MAX), so losing one removes a route
• A single ritual or fusion line that gets negated leaves the hand with few independent starters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0 against the OCG size rules; Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against a legal limit of 2 (Semi-Limited); Droll & Lock Bird and S:P Little Knight are Limited and run at 1 copy each (legal); Copy histogram: 12 three-copy, 2 two-copy, 20 singleton cards
• Inferred: Searcher access ~0.82 in a 5-card opening hand; Hand-trap coverage ~0.68 in a 6-card opening hand going second; Interaction quality read from card text; Combo ceiling and median read from card text only
• Provisional: Meta power (null); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• Data gaps: No recorded combos: floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: no archetype meta-share or pilot match record No win-rate telemetry for this deck No dated metagame sample, so Meta Power stays provisional Deck is Illegal as submitted; the score is theoretical only