Dark Magician Deck #773326 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 50/100 (±12 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician-family Fusion/Xyz/Link boss monsters (Dark Magician of Destruction, Timaeus, Dark Paladin, Master of Chaos, Super Starslayer TY-PHON) backed by Shining Sarcophagus searches and Gadget Trio.; Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord and Dark Magician the Knight of Dragon Magic as additional Extra Deck threats; Gandora-G as a Shining Sarcophagus-enabled boss.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Dark Magician Girl, Gadget Trio, Future Silence, Shining Sarcophagus) to build a Sarcophagus or Mulcharmy-style board, then go to interaction (Ash, Droll, Solemn) once Extra Deck summons are set up.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 12 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler, Nibiru, Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched, Solemn Judgment/Warning) to strip the opponent's first board, then convert with a Fusion or Xyz boss.
• Recovery: Searchers (Future Silence, Shining Sarcophagus, Gadget Trio, Dark Magician Girl) and the Mulcharmy draw effects refill the hand after an exchange of interaction.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan in the evidence; the deck is evaluated as main-deck only.

Why it scores here

The deck's consistency is moderate: 12 searcher-text cards give about a 72% chance of at least one searcher in a going-first 5-card hand, but the engine is split between Shining Sarcophagus and Mulcharmy, which conflict because Mulcharmy wants an empty field. Interaction is the strongest area, with 12 hand traps and about 16 negation and 18 removal effects giving a roughly 79% chance of at least one hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand, so it scores well on going second. Brick risk is high because many hand traps and tech cards do nothing without a board. Combo output cannot be measured since no boards were supplied, so the ceiling and median are text-based inferences and stay low-to-mid. There is no side deck and no tournament or matchup data, so post-side and meta fit are scored provisionally. The score comes from the system's consistency, interaction density and going-second plan, not from Dark Magician's popularity and not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: no_side_deck (-3); engine_conflict (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); structural 56.3, TR 48, base 54.6, modifiers -5 => 49.6, rounded to 50

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.72 · 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 interaction: 12 hand traps and about 34 negation/removal text cards.
• Searcher density (12 cards) gives roughly a 72% chance of a going-first searcher.
• Multiple independent Extra Deck threats (Fusion, Xyz, Link) for varied lines.
• Legal under OCG copy limits with no violations.

Weaknesses

• Low archetype purity (7 exact-name Dark Magician copies out of 70 Main cards).
• Engine conflict between Mulcharmy and Shining Sarcophagus.
• High brick risk from hand traps and tech cards that need a board.
• No side deck and no post-side plan.

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus and Dark Magician-family boss access (single-card chokes for the main plan).
• The 12 hand traps are the main disruption answer on going second, so losing them to a Forbidden/Limited change would collapse going-second defence.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; legal under OCG copy limits with no violations; Card text roles (12 searcher-text, 12 hand-trap, 16 negation, 18 removal) from the resolved card text; Usage stats: Droll & Lock Bird, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Gaze of Timaeus present; S:P Little Knight and Dark Magician of Destruction (usage 63-69%) not in the list
• Inferred: Searcher, hand-trap and archetype-core hypergeometric estimates; Engine conflict between Mulcharmy and Shining Sarcophagus; Going-second interaction strength from hand-trap density; Brick risk from non-board cards
• Provisional: Meta and matchup fit (no tournament context); Post-side adaptability (no side deck); Tournament reliability
• 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/starter/OTK rates) no side deck; post-side plan cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied