Magistus Deck #774067 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Control, Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion/Link summons of Invoked and Magistus boss monsters (Hyperinvoked Aeon, Invoked De Anima, Invoked Mechaba) through Aleister the Invoker material, with Invocation and Super Polymerization as the fusion engine; Hand-trap and negate attrition, with Invoked Augoeides and Invoked Baybarron as removal-backed followups
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Aleister the Reminiscent, Crowley, or Invocation - Sword with a searcher, then fuse into an Invoked boss; the list has no recorded line to confirm the turn-1 conversion (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Skull Meister, Ghost Ogre and Effect Veiler to answer the opponent's first combo, then convert the board with a fusion boss (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through Aleister and Invocation GY effects, Gamma Summon and Magistus Chorozo-style recursion; no recorded boards confirm recovery (Inferred)
• After siding: Not available: the deck runs zero side-deck cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in the TCG format: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Super Polymerization are each run three times against a limit of two, so the Final Contextual score is capped and this result is theoretical/structural only. Structurally, its best feature is interaction: about 14 hand traps and 13 negation effects give it a layered answer to a going-second opponent's first combo, and the fusion bosses (Hyperinvoked Aeon at 3800 ATK, Invoked De Anima, Invoked Mechaba) supply real closing power if the engine goes live. Its weakness is the engine itself: only 5 of the 25 usage-core cards are present, 67 of the 90 copies are off-archetype, and the Mulcharmy draw package and Heat Wave, Gamma Summon and Pot of Sloth do not reliably fit a Fusion/Link line. No recorded boards exist, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference, and the zero-card side deck leaves no adaptation after game one. The score was not derived from Magistus's popularity or from averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo-primary with Control secondary (weights per the Combo profile). Structural ≈ 50.5, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Banlist / copy-limit exposure (-6); No side deck (-4); Engine conflict (-2); Illegal-deck cap (-6). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*50.5 + 0.20*40 - 12 = 36.4, then capped to 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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 hand-trap and negation suite (Ash Blossom, Skull Meister, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Droll and Lock Bird) gives layered interruption
• Fusion finishers with real closing power (Hyperinvoked Aeon 3800 ATK, Invoked De Anima, Invoked Mechaba)
• Good going-second hand-trap density (P >=1 hand trap in hand 6 ~0.84)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts for Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization
• Only 5 of 25 usage-core archetype cards present; 67 of 90 copies are off-archetype (4.3% exact-name purity)
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Brick risk from Mulcharmy, Heat Wave, Gamma Summon and Pot of Sloth
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and floor cannot be confirmed

Critical choke points

• Aleister the Reminiscent / Crowley as the fusion-material gate for every Invoked boss
• Super Polymerization (illegal at 3 copies) as the main fusion-enabler

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a legal limit of 2 (Semi-Limited); Main 55 and Extra 15 are within the TCG size rules, side is 0; Only 5 of 25 usage-core cards are present; Zero side-deck cards; Hyperinvoked Aeon stats 3800/3200
• Inferred: Hand-trap and negation density gives interaction strength (D7); Hypergeometric starter and hand-trap probabilities; Going-second hand-trap coverage; Engine conflict from Mulcharmy and Pot of Sloth
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit, since no dated metagame sample or tournament link exists
• 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 absent 1 passcode (86120751) in CardIDList could not be resolved to a card and was counted as main no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates): signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null