Dark Magician Deck #774357 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 44/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion, Synchro and Link boss from the Extra Deck (Bystial Dis Pater, Master of Chaos, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction) reached through Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl or Magicians' Souls starters (Inferred from card text); Dark Magician of Destruction or Timaeus pressure, backed by Bystial and Chaos extenders (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher or draw starter (Dark Magician Girl x3, Magicians' Souls x3, Mulcharmy Fuwalos x3, Ash Blossom x3) and use Secrets of Dark Magic or a DMG/DM summon to reach a Fusion or Synchro boss; keep Ash and Maxx C for the opponent's first interruption (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit and Maxx C as hand traps to blank the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draws and Magicians' Souls (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through Soul Servant, Magicians' Souls and Magician's Rod recursion, plus Garura draw on GY send (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan; best-of-3 games cannot be adapted

Why it scores here

The list reliably opens a starter: three copies each of Dark Magician Girl, Magicians' Souls, Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Ash Blossom give roughly a one-in-three chance of each in the opening five, and the searcher group reaches about 88% (Inferred from the hypergeometric draw table). Its interaction is the strongest part of the system, with six hand traps, six negation-text cards and a 6-card going-second hand that finds at least one hand trap about 65% of the time (Inferred). Its closing power comes from Extra Deck bosses at 2800 to 3500 ATK, which are present in the Extra Deck list. The score is pulled down by a spread of 17 archetypes with only 21.8% exact-name Dark Magician purity, a Primite cluster that competes for the same Normal Monster and main-deck slots, and an empty side deck. Popularity and archetype usage were not credited, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Engine conflicts and low exact purity (-4); No side deck (-2); Banlist exposure (-1); Albaz-dependent extras (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural 53.9, TR 45, modifiers -8)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · 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

• Three-copy starters and searchers (Dark Magician Girl, Souls, Fuwalos, Ash) give consistent early access
• Six hand traps plus negation and removal text give strong going-second interaction
• Extra Deck bosses at 2800 to 3500 ATK give closing power
• Full 15-card Extra Deck covers Fusion, Synchro and Link lines

Weaknesses

• Exact-name Dark Magician purity is 21.8%, so the deck spreads across many archetype families
• Ten singleton main-deck slots and many off-archetype copies raise brick risk
• Albion and Ecclesia rely on Fallen of Albaz, which is not run
• No side deck registered, so no post-side adaptability

Critical choke points

• Starter access depends on a small set of 2-3 copy cards; losing Dark Magician Girl or Souls to one interruption leaves few alternate starters
• Extra Deck Fusion bosses need Dark Magician or Dark Magician Girl, or Secrets of Dark Magic, in hand or field
• Albion and Ecclesia lines depend on Fallen of Albaz, which is absent from the list

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel with a 40/15/0 size and no violations; Restricted-card copy counts are within legal limits; Usage stats: Dark Magician core at 80% inclusion
• Inferred: Starter and searcher probabilities from the hypergeometric table; Hand-trap access on going second (0.65); Interaction density and closing power from card text; Albaz dependency of Albion and Ecclesia
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit (no dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first, going-second and matchup figures are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null usage_statistics marks Extra Deck core cards (Garura, Miasma Necromancer, Crimson Dragon, Dis Pater, Baronne, Timaeus, Master of Chaos, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, DMoD, Chorozo, Mudragon) as absent even though all 11 appear in the Extra Deck list. core_present_pct (56) and the archetype_core_group probability are therefore unreliable and were not used No side deck registered (side_count 0)