Dark Magician Deck #773215 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck pressure from Synchro, Xyz, Link and Fusion monsters (Elfnote June Pride, K9-X Werewolf, Dark Magician of Destruction, Elfnote Seraphim Strelitzia) built from Charmer, Elfnote and K9 engines; Direct Dark Magician-themed Fusion/Synchro pressure with Ghost Belle and Ash Blossom protection as the interaction core
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Spellbook or Elfnote searchers and a Normal Summon engine (Elfnote Lucina, Elfnote Tinia, K9-66a Jokul) to reach a Level 5 to 6 board, using Maxx C and Droll & Lock Bird to slow the opponent's draws
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre and Solemn Judgment as hand traps to stop the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Dark Magical Curtain and the Spellbook searchers
• Recovery: Spellbook of the Grand Circle and Spellbook of Secrets return Charmer and Spellbook cards from Deck and GY; Mind Mirror Force and Artifact Lancea give late-game interaction
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan; the Forbidden cards would need to be removed before any side-deck construction is possible

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its card ratings. Its searcher density (22 searcher-text cards, P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) about 0.92) makes the engine reliably open, but the core is split across several sub-archetypes (Spellbook, Charmer, Elfnote, K9) with only 2 exact Dark Magician-named cards, so the lines do not converge cleanly. Interaction is the deck's strongest area: 11 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards give good coverage against a going-second opponent. Pressure and conversion are weak: no combo boards could be parsed, so ceiling and median output remain text-only inference. The deck is Illegal because five Forbidden OCG cards are run at one copy each, so it cannot receive a normal Final Contextual score and is capped at 25 as a theoretical, structural-only read. Popularity was not used: the archetype core is only partly present (4 of 10 core cards, 40 percent), which does not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 48.4, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(48.4) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 47.7; banlist-exposure modifier -12 gives 35.7; capped at 25 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only, no normal Final score)

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 reliable opening engine
• Broad hand-trap and negation coverage (11 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards)
• Extra Deck offers high-ATK closers across Synchro, Link and Xyz

Weaknesses

• Five Forbidden cards make the list Illegal in OCG
• Low exact-name archetype purity (2.8 percent) means the engine lines do not converge
• No parseable boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unmeasured
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Forbidden Extra Deck cards (Crystal Wing, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Reprodocus, Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Baronne de Fleur) would have to be removed before the list is playable
• Core Limited cards (Elfnote Lucina, Elfnote Tinia, K9-66a Jokul, Maxx C, Solemn Judgment) cap at 1 copy each

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Five Forbidden cards at 1 copy each (legal copies 0); Main Deck 57 cards and Extra Deck 15 cards are within OCG size rules; Ash Blossom at 2 copies is within the Semi-Limited limit
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency from hypergeometric probabilities; Hand-trap and interaction quality from card text; Going-second coverage estimate of about 0.74
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample exists; Matchup fit is provisional without tournament data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed