Magistus Deck #774426 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, 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 Summon of Invoked boss monsters (Hyperinvoked Aeon, Invoked De Anima, Invoked Mechaba) via Invocation / Invocation - Sword / Super Polymerization, then pressure with 3000+ ATK bodies; Link pressure from Endymion, the Crescent Magistus and Aleister the Invoker of Madness, supported by Artemis searches and Aleister the Reminiscent recursion
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Aleister the Reminiscent or Aiwass to search or summon an Aleister, then Invocation / Invocation - Sword into an Invoked Fusion using Aleister as material
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Skull Meister, Infinite Impermanence) and Droll & Lock Bird to disrupt the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Aleister and Fusion Summon
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Mulcharmy Purulia draw when the hand is empty, Aleister and Invocation GY effects reload the Aleister core, and Gamma Summon can revive Invoked monsters from the GY
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adapt to a matchup

Why it scores here

The Magistus list reliably opens on its Aleister core: 17 core-archetype copies give P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.86 (Inferred), so the deck usually has a starter. Its ceiling comes from the Fusion layer (Invocation spells into 3000+ ATK Invoked bosses, plus Endymion and Aleister links for pressure), and its interaction is dense, with about 15 hand traps and 21 removal-text cards giving roughly 0.87 odds of a hand trap by going second. The score is held down by the system, not by the individual cards: only 2.9% of the main deck is exact-name Magistus, 68 of 70 non-Extra cards are off-archetype, many are generic or hand-trap bricks, and there are no recorded combos, so the median and floor are unmeasured. The deck is Illegal (Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a limit of 2), and it has no Side Deck, so the score is capped to a theoretical, structural-only read. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype core is only a modest usage signal, and the score comes from consistency, interaction and closing power on the list, not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary (≈ 80%) with Midrange secondary (≈ 20%) for recovery and draw texture; the Combo weights are used as the base profile. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-5); no side deck (-3). Final formula: Structural 54.8 (Combo profile) → 0.80·54.8 + 0.20·42 = 52.2; context modifiers −8 → 44.2; Illegal cap → 35 (theoretical, structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.14 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core of 17 copies gives an ≈0.86 chance of a core card in the opening hand (Inferred)
• Dense interaction layer: about 15 hand traps and 21 removal-text cards (Verified text, Inferred strength)
• Strong Fusion and Link closing bodies (Hyperinvoked Aeon 3800 ATK, Nibiru 3000, Invoked Oceanus 3000) (Verified stats)
• Mulcharmy draw effects and Aleister recursion give recovery routes (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization exceed the Semi-Limited copy limit
• Low engine purity (2.9% exact-name) with 68 off-archetype copies, so the lines run through generic and tech cards (Verified)
• No recorded combos, so the floor and median cannot be measured (Verified gap)
• No Side Deck, so the deck cannot adapt to a matchup (Verified)

Critical choke points

• Aleister the Reminiscent / Crowley / Aiwass as the single Aleister source for every Invoked Fusion line (Inferred)
• Invocation / Invocation - Sword and Super Polymerization as the Fusion enablers, both over the copy limit (Verified)
• Only one Droll & Lock Bird and one S:P Little Knight are legal, so the hand-trap count shrinks once the illegal copies are removed (Verified)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization exceed their Semi-Limited limit of 2; Card text and stats for the Fusion, Link and hand-trap cards; Exact-name purity is 2.9% with 68 off-archetype copies; Side deck count is 0
• Inferred: Starter and core-card hypergeometric odds (≈0.86 core; ≈0.25 per single starter in hand 5); Consistency, brick proxy and interaction strength read from card text; Closing and resilience read from the stated boards and recursion text; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• 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 One passcode in CardIDList (86120751) could not be resolved and was counted as Main No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) exists in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck supplied, so D12 cannot be measured