Dark Magician Deck #772817 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Fusion/Link
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion/Link boards (Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, The Dark Magicians, Master of Chaos, Dark Paladin, Underworld Goddess) backed by Dark Magician ATK 2500 bodies, with Shining Sarcophagus as the engine enabler; Ritual/Chaos line (Illusion of Chaos into Master of Chaos) and Timaeus fusion pressure via The Gaze of Timaeus
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Soul Servant, Dark Magical Curtain or Dark Magical Circle to search Shining Sarcophagus or Dark Magician, then Sarcophagus into Gadget Trio/Moremarshmallon searches and a Fusion or Link extension (Inferred; no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Artifact Lancea, Nibiru and Dominus Impulse as hand traps against the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through Sarcophagus and Magician's Rod (Inferred)
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia draw on empty boards, Soul Servant and Shining Sarcophagus recover from GY, Dark Magical Circle and Future Silence re-search
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs zero side cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a starter most of the time: P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.80 across 16 searcher-text cards, so the engine is accessible on turn 1 (Inferred). Its interaction density is high, with 8 hand traps, 11 negation texts and 21 removal texts, which earns a strong end-board interaction score (Inferred from card text). Conversion is held back by the fact that the list spreads across Dark Magician, Shining Sarcophagus, Dominus, Mulcharmy, Prophecy and Artifact, with only 20% exact-name Dark Magician purity; the score reflects the system's coherence and not the popularity of the archetype or any average of card scores. No recorded boards exist, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences. The deck is illegal in OCG (three copies each of three Semi-Limited cards), so the normal Final formula is capped and this result is structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); engine_conflicts (-5). Final formula: Illegal legality cap applied: normal 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability gives about 44 before modifiers, capped to 30 as structural-only. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · 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 searcher density (16 cards) gives a high chance of an opening starter
• Eight hand traps and 21 removal texts give layered interaction
• Fusion and Link extension covers several high-ATK closers

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: three Semi-Limited cards run three copies each
• No side deck, so best-of-3 adaptability is zero
• Spread across several sub-archetypes, with 20% exact-archetype purity

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus on the field is required for most engine effects
• Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are both needed at 2 copies to stay legal

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 60 main, 15 extra, 0 side; three cards over the OCG copy limit; Limited status of S:P Little Knight, legal at 1 copy; Zero side deck cards; Card text for the 31 distinct main-deck cards
• Observed: Core usage stats: Mulcharmy Fuwalos 63.8%, Gaze of Timaeus 56.9%, Dark Magical Curtain 53.4%
• Inferred: P(>=1 searcher in 5-card hand) = 0.80 from hypergeometric draw odds; Interaction density from role tags and negation/removal text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are inferred Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Illegal list: normal Final score is capped