Dark Magician Deck #773442 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a 3000-ATK boss (Master of Chaos, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight) or Link Summon Underworld Goddess, after a Dark Magician starter is searched or recycled into the board.; Coach King Giantrainer 800-damage pings and Dark Magician Girl / Dark Magicians attacks off a sustained board.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Magicians' Souls, Magician's Rod, Dark Magical Circle, Illusion Magic) to fetch Dark Magician or Dark Magical Curtain, then land a DM-based Fusion or Link board; Eternal Soul protects DM from opponent card effects.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Droll & Lock Bird or Magician Navigation to answer the first searcher or board, then rebuild through Soul Servant recursion and Illusion of Chaos ritual searches.
• Recovery: Recur Dark Magician and DMG from GY via Soul Servant, Magicians' Souls and Magician's Salvation, then re-fuse from Extra Deck.
• After siding: No side deck is run (Side Deck size 0); no post-side plan is available in Duel Links format.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional Dark Magician plan: the archetype core of 21 copies gives roughly 0.999 odds of at least one core card in a 5-card opener, and 11 searcher-text cards give about 0.92 odds of a search in the opener. Its interaction suite (Droll & Lock Bird, Magician Navigation, Eternal Soul, Dark Magic Attack) gives it several answers to a going-second board, and its Extra Deck of five Fusions, three Links and one Xyz gives it several closing boss options at 2800 to 3000 ATK. The deck is penalised for low exact-name purity (43.6%, 22 off-archetype copies from Chaos, Timaeus and Prophecy), for having no recorded boards, and for having no side deck or dated matchup data, so the floor and median cannot be measured. Archetype popularity (6 guides, 22 stat rows) confirmed that the list is real and accessible but added no points on its own, and the score was built from the system's dimensions rather than from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 70/30. Structural ≈ 64.5, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural = 0.7*Combo(64.8) + 0.3*Midrange(63.6) = 64.5; 0.80*64.5 + 0.20*62 = 64.0; minus 2 modifier = 62

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.43 · 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 Dark Magician core (21 copies) with near-certain access to an archetype card in the opener
• Several independent searchers and Soul Servant recursion give route redundancy
• Strong 2800-3000 ATK Extra Deck closers across five Fusion, three Link and one Xyz options
• Layered interaction: hand traps, negation text and Eternal Soul protection

Weaknesses

• Low exact-name purity (43.6%) with Chaos, Timaeus and Prophecy copies diluting the engine
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median are unmeasured
• No side deck and no dated matchup data

Critical choke points

• The single Dark Magician starter (3 copies, 0.43 in a 5-card hand) if the searchers are also missing
• Coach King Giantrainer is Limited 1 (run 1) and is a single Extra Deck dependency for the xyz route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal list: 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side within Duel Links size rules; Coach King Giantrainer Limited 1, run 1 (legal); Archetype usage: 22 stat rows; 12 of 21 core cards present (57.1%)
• Observed: Composition counts: 17 distinct Main, copy histogram 1:9, 2:3, 3:5; Extra 5 Fusion, 3 Link, 1 Xyz
• Inferred: Consistency estimates from hypergeometric odds; Interaction and resilience reads from card text; Combo ceiling read from text only
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and side-deck reads (no post-side data)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null in the export