Dark Magician Deck #773898 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±7 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician / Dark Magician of Destruction / Chaos-Fusion boards converting through Dark Magician-named monsters and Fusion/Synchro/Link summons from the Extra Deck; Direct pressure from Link and Synchro monsters (Bystial Dis Pater, Miasma Necromancer, S:P Little Knight) once the Extra Deck is accessible
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Primite Lordly Lode or Magicians' Souls / Dark Magician Girl to reach a Dark Magician or Fusion starter, then use Secrets of Dark Magic or Super Polymerization to reach a board; interaction with Ash Blossom and Droll-style hand traps is held up as the first-turn buffer
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit and Maxx "C" to disrupt the opponent's first-turn play, then rebuild through Magicians' Souls and Dark Magician Girl in the GY-based search lines
• Recovery: Recover from interruption through Magicians' Souls, Soul Servant recursion, Magician's Rod GY effect, and Primite Lordly Lode search into Primite / Dark Magician support
• After siding: Side deck is empty (0 cards); no post-side plan exists, which lowers adaptability

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan on the strength of its archetype core: the Dark Magician-named monsters and Magicians' Souls / Dark Magician Girl are present in high numbers, and the hypergeometric estimate puts at least one archetype-core card in the opening five at roughly 97% (Inferred). Conversion is held back by the lack of recorded boards: there is no combos evidence, so the ceiling and median are text-only reads, and the Extra Deck of 15 is split across Fusion, Synchro and Link summons whose enablers are present but not measured. Interaction is a real strength on the system: seven hand traps and several negation/removal texts (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx "C", Droll & Lock Bird, Primite Drillbeam, Baronne de Fleur, Bystial Dis Pater) give layered answers to opposing activations. The score is not earned by Dark Magician being a popular archetype, nor by averaging card scores; the 0-side and absence of any tournament or win-rate data cap the adaptability and matchup dimensions.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.8 Midrange + 0.2 Toolbox. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 59, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: empty side deck (-3); banlist exposure (-2); no combos evidence (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.03 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype-core density gives a high chance of a live starter in the opening hand
• Seven hand traps and multiple negate/removal texts give layered interaction
• Several independent starters and GY recursion give reasonable redundancy
• Full Extra Deck with Fusion, Synchro and Link access supports several boards

Weaknesses

• No side deck: no post-side plan against any matchup
• Low exact-name archetype purity (21.8%) and 14 level-0 spells suggest a loose engine with many dead draws
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be verified
• No win-rate or tournament data; matchup fit is provisional

Critical choke points

• Reliance on Dark Magician or Dark Magician Girl being reachable from the opening hand
• Fusion enablers Secrets of Dark Magic and Super Polymerization are only 1 and 2 copies, so a dead Extra Deck is possible

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 composition and legality; Limited and Semi-Limited statuses; copy counts; Archetype purity 21.8% exact-name and sub-archetype spread from composition
• Inferred: At-least-one archetype-core starter in opening 5 ≈ 0.97 (hypergeometric); Interaction density and hand-trap layering from card text; Consistency, brick and recursion estimates from text and probability
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample or tournament data); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• 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 exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown side deck is empty (0 cards) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied