Dark Magician Deck #773149 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 48/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Fusion/Synchro/Link/Ritual mechanics
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Land one of the 13 distinct 2800+ ATK bosses (e.g. Chaos Angel 3500, Black Skull Dragon 3200, Black Chaos MAX 2800) through Dark Magician search and Ritual, Fusion or Link engine lines (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards).; Recursion and Extra-Deck access via Timaeus-related Fusion (Eye of Timaeus, Gaze of Timaeus, Timaeus the United Magical Dragon) and Dark Magician of Destruction (Inferred).
• Turn 1 (going first): Search an engine card with the searcher-text cards (Ragged Records, Mind Shuffle, Shining Sarcophagus, Dark Magical Circle) and commit to one sub-archetype engine, holding Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence as protection (Inferred).
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence for the opponent's first effect, and use Chaos Angel or Underworld Goddess to answer a board after it is established (Inferred; hand-trap access on 6 cards is about 37%).
• Recovery: Use the GY-recursion and searcher effects (Magician's Rod, Soul Servant, Dark Magician of Chaos) to rebuild from the graveyard (Inferred from text).
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan in the evidence.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a searcher: at least one searcher-text card is in about 90% of opening 5-card hands, which makes its engine reachable on turn one. Conversion is strong at the top end, with 13 distinct 2800+ ATK bosses and several conditional summon routes, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling is a text-based read and the median is marked lower. Interaction is layered (4 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards and 20 removal-text cards) but the going-second hand-trap chance is only about 37%. The score is held down by a loose 49-distinct main deck with 41 singletons, four competing sub-archetype engines, and an empty side deck. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 46. Modifiers: engine conflict (-4); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers (no dated meta, Meta provisional; Structural = sum(score*weight)/95 without D13) = 0.80*54.9 + 0.20*45.7 - 5 = 48.0

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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: 20 searcher-text copies; about 90% of opening hands have one
• Layered interaction: 4 hand traps, 11 negation-text and 20 removal-text cards
• 13 distinct 2800+ ATK bosses across Main and Extra
• Legal list: all Limited and Semi-Limited cards within legal copies

Weaknesses

• No side deck (0 cards), so post-side adaptation is absent
• 49 distinct Main cards with 41 singletons; loose and inconsistent
• Four competing sub-archetype engines; exact-name purity 19.4%
• Hand-trap access on 6 cards is only about 37%
• No recorded boards, so combo conversion is unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus (2 copies) gates Moremarshmallon, Silent Magician Zero and the Special Summon conditions of Dark Magician the Magician of Black Magic and Gandora-G
• Light and Darkness Ritual (2 copies) gates Griffoh, Celtic Mystic and Light and Darkness Ritual-named searches
• Monster Reborn (1 copy, Limited) is a single-copy recovery line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Legal under the OCG BanList; 57 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within size rules; All six restricted cards are within legal copies; Copy histogram 41 singletons and 8 doubles across 49 distinct Main cards; Extra Deck: 10 Link, 3 Fusion, 1 Synchro, 1 Xyz; Exact-name archetype purity 19.4% (14 of 72 Main+Extra copies); Usage stats: 3 of 10 archetype core cards present
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher-text card in opening 5) = 0.896; Hand-trap P(at least one in 6 cards going second) = 0.367; Engine conflict across Sarcophagus, Light and Darkness Ritual, Chaos and Timaeus; Ceiling and median read from card text, with no recorded boards; Interaction quality from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated meta sample); D13 matchup and format fit (dropped from Structural); Tournament Reliability components built on the inferred consistency numbers
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Usage matching appears to check the Main Deck only: S:P Little Knight, Dark Magician of Destruction, W:P Fancy Ball and I:P Masquerena are listed in the Extra Deck but reported as not in this deck, so the 3/10 core-present figure understates Extra coverage Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Card excerpts are truncated; conditional clauses past the excerpt were not used