Dark Magician Deck #772865 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician-named bosses and Light and Darkness Ritual finishers (Black Chaos 3000, Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos 2800, Black Luster Soldier 3000) backed by Chaos Angel 3500 and Dark Paladin 2900 from the Extra Deck; Fusion and Link extenders (The Dark Magicians, Master of Chaos, Dark Cavalry, Underworld Goddess) for end-board pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Searcher and draw chain (Magician's Rod, Dark Magical Circle, Ragged Records of Rites, Mind Shuffle) to reach a Ritual or Dark Magician starter; hand traps held for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Kuriboh, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment) and Dominus Impulse answer the opponent's board, then Dark Magician Fusion or Ritual lines convert
• Recovery: Pot of Sloth, Soul Servant and Skull Archfiend of Chaos recursion from GY, plus Mulcharmy Fuwalos card draw when the hand is empty
• After siding: Not evaluable: side deck is empty, so no post-side plan exists in this list

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal in OCG because Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse are each run three times against a limit of two, so the score is capped at 30 and labelled theoretical/structural only. The structural read comes from the system rather than from card averages: a searcher density that reaches a starter in about 91% of opening hands (Inferred), seven hand traps and roughly two dozen removal or negation texts that give layered interaction, and a set of Ritual, Fusion and Link bosses that can convert. The main drags are archetype incoherence (only 14% of cards are named Dark Magician, with 61 off-archetype copies across Light and Darkness Ritual, Prophecy, Chaos, Kuriboh, Mulcharmy and Solemn), a 56-card main with no side deck, and no recorded boards to confirm any line. Archetype popularity earned no points; the score comes from the consistency, disruption and closing read on the system.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit cap (-12). Final formula: min(0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + Modifiers, 30 illegal cap) = min(0.80*57 + 0.20*50 - 12, 30) = 30 (Meta provisional, excluded)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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

• Searcher density gives a high chance of a live starter by turn 2 (Inferred)
• Seven hand traps plus negation and removal text provide layered disruption (Inferred)
• Several 2800–3500 ATK bosses across Ritual, Fusion and Synchro routes (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy limit on two Semi-Limited cards (Verified)
• Only 14% of main deck is exact-name Dark Magician; many off-archetype cards dilute the engine (Verified)
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability (Verified)
• No recorded boards, so no conversion or median evidence (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician or Light and Darkness Ritual starter access, which depends on a small number of named cards (Inferred)
• Going second without a live hand trap, since hand-trap group probability is about 0.57 (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against an OCG limit of 2; Main 56 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules (main 40–60, extra 0–15); side 0 is within 0–15; Exact-name Dark Magician purity 14.1% (10 of 71 main copies); Side deck is empty
• Observed: Usage stats: 10 core cards tracked, 5 present; S:P Little Knight and Dark Magician of Destruction are absent from this list
• Inferred: Searcher access ≈ 0.915 in opening 5; Archetype core group ≈ 0.680 in opening 5; Hand-trap group ≈ 0.569 going second; Interaction layering and bosses' closing power from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13, dropped from Structural)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for this deck Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck empty: no post-side evidence