Dark Magician Deck #773983 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, Fusion
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 25 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Out-grind with Dark Magical Circle banishes and Eternal Soul-protected Dark Magician, then close with Fusion bosses such as Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon.; Master of Chaos board banish, Dark Magic Attack backrow clear, or Ebon Illusion Magician extension into a lethal board.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a search line (Magician's Rod, Illusion of Chaos, Preparation of Rites, or Magicians' Souls) to establish Dark Magical Circle and/or Eternal Soul with Dark Magician, then layer a Fusion boss if Timaeus/Gaze/Secrets is available.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Dark Magic Attack, Forbidden Droplet, Knightmare removal, and Fusion bosses to clear or bypass interaction; Dragoon's destruction effect and Master of Chaos banish can break boards.
• Recovery: Recursion via Eternal Soul, Illusion of Chaos, Magicians' Souls, Soul Servant, The Dark Magicians, and Magician's Rod in the GY.
• After siding: No Side Deck submitted; in a best-of-three context the deck would need backrow/going-second tools, but no post-side data exists.

Why it scores here

The deck's power comes from a dense Dark Magician search and recycle shell: 3 Illusion of Chaos, 3 Soul Servant, 3 Dark Magician, 2 Magician's Rod, 2 Preparation of Rites and 2 Magicians' Souls give many ways to find the name and named Spell/Traps, with P(≥1 searcher-text card in the opening 5) around 0.94 (Inferred). It converts those searches into a midrange board of Dark Magical Circle banishes, Eternal Soul protection/revival, and Fusion bosses such as Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, and Master of Chaos. The floor is lower than the ceiling because many key non-name pieces are singletons (Circle, Eternal Soul, Timaeus, Gaze, Secrets), there are no hand traps, and several Extra Deck options are material-specific; Dark Cavalry has no Warrior material in the Main Deck. No combo boards, tournament sample, or win-rate telemetry were supplied, so meta fit and post-side performance are provisional; popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and the score is a system score, not an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.23 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense search and recycle shell with many routes to Dark Magician and named Spell/Traps.
• Strong grind tools: Eternal Soul, Soul Servant, Magicians' Souls, Illusion of Chaos, and The Dark Magicians.
• Access to high-ceiling Fusion bosses such as Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, and Master of Chaos.
• Dark Magical Circle provides non-targeting banish interaction when Dark Magician is summoned.
• Dark Magic Attack and Forbidden Droplet give some going-second coverage against backrow and monster effects.

Weaknesses

• Many one-ofs and a 25-card list reduce redundancy; Dark Magical Circle and Eternal Soul are at one copy each.
• No hand traps, so the deck has limited interaction during the opponent's first turn.
• Several Extra Deck options are material-specific; Dark Cavalry requires a Warrior that the Main Deck does not contain.
• Dark Magical Curtain can give the opponent a DARK Spellcaster and locks effects, making it a risky starter.
• No Side Deck or post-side data exists, so best-of-three adaptability is unproven.
• No combo evidence was supplied; median output and conversion rates are text-only inferences.

Critical choke points

• Keeping Dark Magical Circle or Eternal Soul on the field; losing either collapses much of the interaction/protection.
• Access to a Dragon for Dragoon/Dragon Knight, since Timaeus is the only Main Deck Dragon and is a one-of.
• Resolving Magician's Rod if it is the only Normal Summon starter; negation on the summon stops the search.
• Eternal Soul leaving the field destroys your own monsters if not sequenced or protected carefully.
• Fusion lines require DM plus specific material; drawing only situational spells can leave the board underdeveloped.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal at 25 Main / 9 Extra / 0 Side under BanDuelLink.; All listed cards are Unlimited legal copies, with no restricted cards or violations.; Card texts for Illusion of Chaos, Soul Servant, Magician's Rod, Dark Magical Circle, Eternal Soul, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, and other key cards are present.; Composition shows 16 distinct Main Deck cards, 10 singletons, 3 two-ofs, and 3 three-ofs.; Usage data reports 52.9% exact-name purity and 12/21 core cards present.
• Observed: No scored combo boards were supplied (0 combos, 0 going-first, 0 going-second).; Composition includes 12 Spell Cards, 6 Effect Monsters, 3 Normal Monsters, 3 Ritual Monsters, and 1 Trap in the Main Deck.
• Inferred: P(≥1 searcher-text card in opening 5) ≈ 0.94.; P(Dark Magician + a Timaeus/Gaze/Secrets fusion-access piece in opening 5) ≈ 0.23.; Median line is likely Circle/Eternal Soul plus one boss, below the Dragoon/Master of Chaos ceiling.; Dark Cavalry is unsummonable without a Warrior in the Main Deck.; The deck has strong grind but limited first-turn interaction because it runs no hand traps.
• Provisional: Meta Power is provisional; no dated metagame sample or tournament link was supplied.; Matchup coverage and format fit cannot be measured without a dated environment sample.; Side Deck adaptability is unknown because no Side Deck was submitted.
• Data gaps: No combo evidence supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference. No tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record is absent. No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates); those signals are Inferred or Unknown. No Side Deck submitted, so post-side adaptability is unproven. No Duel Links skill is specified in the evidence, which is a material context gap for this format. Usage statistics list several Extra Deck cards as absent (Master of Chaos, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, The Dark Magicians) even though they appear in the card list, reducing confidence in usage-based core assessment.