Magical Musket Deck #773173 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 12 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Magical Musket and Fiendsmith board presence converted by Link and Fusion Extra Deck monsters (Magical Musket Mastermind Caspar, Fiendsmith's Agnumday, Fiendsmith's Lacrima, S:P Little Knight), with Musket monsters recycling Musket spells and traps.; Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon plus Mulcharmy draw and Maxx C card-advantage pressure in longer games.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Level 3 or 4 Musket or Fiendsmith starter plus Radiant Typhoon Vision or Mulcharmy draw bodies, protect the line with Dominus Purge, Red Reboot, Solemn Judgment or Magical Musket Last Stand, then Link Summon toward a Musket or Fiendsmith finisher.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Red Reboot, Solemn Judgment) to stop the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Fiendsmith and Musket searchers. Depends on the hand-trap density in the 6-card hand.
• Recovery: Recycle from the GY through Magical Musketeer Doc, Fiendsmith Engraver, Lacrima the Crimson Tears and Fiendsmith's Tract, and Mulcharmy draw; the deck has enough searchers to rebuild, but the search lines depend on specific names.
• After siding: Not possible as evidenced: the deck runs an empty Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan. This is a structural gap for a best-of-3 format.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Magical Musket or Fiendsmith starter: the archetype core (22 copies) has a hypergeometric P(at least one in a 5-card opener) of about 0.93 (Inferred), and the deck runs 7 hand traps plus 11 negation-text cards, so it can interrupt and then rebuild. Converting that starter into a board is weaker: the Extra Deck is split across Link, Fusion, Synchro and XYZ with only 19.4% exact-name Musket purity, and the list runs no Fiendsmith's Rextremende and no Dark Dragon-style finisher, so the engines are partly disconnected. Two Forbidden cards (Albion the Branded Dragon and D/D/D Wave High King Caesar) make the list illegal in OCG, so it is capped and scored as theoretical and structural only. The empty Side Deck removes any post-side plan. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points (the core is 60% present), and the card scores were not averaged; the score comes from consistency, interaction and the system.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with a Stun secondary for the interaction-heavy build; weights taken from the Midrange profile. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-6); No side deck (-2); Engine conflicts (-2); Illegal-list cap (-11). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(48) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + ContextModifiers(-10) = 36.4, capped at 25 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only); Meta Power is provisional and excluded

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.07 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction: 7 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards, 18 removal-text cards
• High probability of a live archetype starter (about 0.93 for the 22-copy core)
• Multiple independent starters across Musket, Fiendsmith, Mulcharmy and Dominus

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Albion the Branded Dragon and D/D/D Wave High King Caesar are Forbidden
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation in best-of-3
• Low exact-name purity (19.4%); the engines are partly disconnected
• No parsed combos, so the floor, median and ceiling are inferred from text only

Critical choke points

• Forbidden Extra Deck monsters removed from play leave Extra Deck slots that need a legal replacement
• Opponent's first hand-trap or negation on the starter (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C) can stall the single-starter line
• Missing core cards by inclusion (Fiendsmith's Agnumday, Fiendsmith's Sequence, Magical Musketeer Max, Fiendsmith's Rextremende) mean the intended engine is not fully present

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal: Albion the Branded Dragon and D/D/D Wave High King Caesar are Forbidden with 0 legal copies; Main Deck 55 cards and Extra Deck 12 cards, within the OCG size rules; Archetype core group: 22 copies, P(open >=1) about 0.93; Side Deck is empty (0 cards); Exact-name archetype purity 19.4%
• Observed: Usage statistics: 15 of 25 core cards present (60%)
• Inferred: Consistency and brick estimates from the hypergeometric probabilities; Interaction quality from 7 hand traps and 11 negation-text cards; Going-second hand-trap estimate about 0.58
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null; evaluated from archetype and card list only Side Deck is empty, so post-side scoring is unobservable