Dark Magician Deck #774396 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±7 · 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: Extra Deck boss (Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Master of Chaos, Chaos Angel) or 2500+ ATK Dark Magician monsters, reached through the searcher engine (Inferred); Link board (S:P Little Knight, I:P Masquerena, Underworld Goddess) plus Dark Magician Girl GY pump (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search Shining Sarcophagus, Magician's Rod or Dark Magical Circle; land Dark Magician or Dark Magician Girl; convert into an Extra Deck summon (Inferred, text-based)
• Turn 2 (going second): Droll & Lock Bird or Forbidden Droplet to disrupt, then rebuild through searchers and Soul Servant recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Magicians' Souls and Soul Servant draw or recur from the GY; Magician's Rod and Dark Magician Girl recur from the GY; Eternal Soul revives Dark Magicians (Inferred)
• After siding: None: the list has 0 side cards and Duel Links offers no post-side adaptation here

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an engine: about 92% of 5-card opening hands contain at least one of its 11 searcher-text cards, and the Dark Magician core is nearly always present (Inferred). Its interaction package (Forbidden Droplet, two Droll & Lock Bird, Dark Magic Attack, Eternal Soul, and negation text on Number 90 and Underworld Goddess) is the main reason it scores well at the end of the board. Its closing power comes from 2800 to 3500 ATK Extra Deck monsters, though the Dragon Master Knight slot cannot be reached from this list. There is no recorded board data, so the combo ceiling and median are unmeasured and held near neutral. Popularity and the archetype's guide presence earned no points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score. The lack of a side deck and of any meta or tournament evidence keeps confidence at Medium.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 62.4, Going First ≈ 69, Going Second ≈ 65, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: Dead Extra Deck slot (-2); No side deck (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; 0.80*62.4 + 0.20*56 - 3 = 58.1)

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

• Searcher density: 11 searcher-text copies with P(at least 1 in opening 5) about 0.92 (Inferred)
• Interaction set: Forbidden Droplet, Droll & Lock Bird x2, Dark Magic Attack, Eternal Soul, plus negation text on Number 90 and Underworld Goddess
• Archetype core largely present: 17 of 19 usage-core cards are in the list once Extra Deck cards are counted (see data_gaps)
• All cards are Unlimited under BanDuelLink; no banlist exposure

Weaknesses

• Dragon Master Knight is a dead Extra slot: its named materials are absent
• Illusion of Chaos's own Ritual route needs Chaos Form, which is absent; Secrets of Dark Magic is the only Ritual route in the list (Inferred)
• Exact-name archetype purity is 43.6% with 22 off-archetype copies
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl: 6 Dark Magician-named copies in total; P(at least 1 Dark Magician in opening 5) about 0.43
• Shining Sarcophagus x2 gates Dark Magician the Magician of Black Magic's hand Special Summon and its searches (text-based)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Legal; 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side within Duel Links size rules; All 20 distinct Main Deck cards and 9 Extra cards are Unlimited under BanDuelLink; Copy histogram 1x11, 2x8, 3x1 sums to 30; Core presence is 17 of 19 usage-core cards after cross-checking the cards list (the export reports 12 of 19)
• Observed: Usage statistics: 21 archetype rows present (Verified stat rows; no board observations exist)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand odds (starter, searcher, hand-trap, core); Engine consistency and brick risk from copy counts and card text; Interaction density and going-second board-breaking from text; Extra Deck access routes (Master of Chaos via Dark Magician plus Illusion of Chaos; Dragon Master Knight unreachable)
• Provisional: Meta power (null; no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13); Tournament reliability and the post-side plan
• Data gaps: Usage-statistics inconsistency: in_this_deck is false for Extra Deck core cards Master of Chaos, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Underworld Goddess and S:P Little Knight, yet the cards list shows all five in the Extra Deck. The export's 12 of 19 core count matches Main Deck matches only; the corrected count is 17 of 19. Likely a zone-filter bug in preprocess.py; verify. No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are 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, brick and starter rates are Inferred Meta power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Guide snippets have no section content and are undated Deck title is null