Dark Magician Deck #774632 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician engine and Light and Darkness Ritual boards converting into 2800-3000 ATK ritual, fusion or link beaters (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Master of Chaos, Dark Paladin); Mulcharmy and Link pressure with Dragunity Lord and Accesscode Talker, plus Dark Magician of Destruction when the Extra Deck line is live
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dark Magician or Light and Darkness Ritual starter, search via Magician's Rod / Mind Shuffle / Chaos Form style text, and convert to a ritual or link board while holding Ash Blossom and Evenly Matched for interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse and Solemn Judgment to stop the first board, then rebuild through Kuriboh, Mulcharmy draw effects and Skull Archfiend recursion
• Recovery: Recover from GY through Witch of the Black Forest, Skull Archfiend of Chaos, Soul Servant and Light and Darkness Ritual recursion; Mulcharmy draw effects refill the hand after interaction
• After siding: Not evaluable: side_count is 0, so there is no post-side plan in the deck as submitted

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse are each run three times against a Semi-Limited limit of two, so the score is a theoretical, structural-only read capped low and not a normal contextual score. Structurally the deck reliably opens a Dark Magician or Light and Darkness Ritual starter (about 0.72 chance of at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred) and has strong interaction density (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment, Dominus Impulse, Evenly Matched, Lightning Storm), which lifts end-board and resilience scores. Ceiling and median output could not be measured because no combos were supplied, so these are text-only inferences and kept moderate. The deck is held back by low archetype purity (about 14.5 percent exact-name copies, 59 off-archetype copies), no side deck, and a complex ritual and link route that is hard to pilot consistently. Popularity or archetype usage stats were not used to raise the score, and card scores were not averaged into the deck result.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange profile with Control considered; weights applied per Midrange row. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit overage (-10); Limited-card dependence (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*54 + 0.20*50 - 12 = 41.2 uncapped; Illegal legality cap applied, final score set to 30 (theoretical, structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.72 · 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 archetype-core and searcher text gives a high chance to open a live starter
• Layered interaction (Ash, Droll, Solemn, Dominus, Evenly Matched, Lightning Storm) for end-board and disruption
• High-ATK ritual and fusion closers (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Master of Chaos, Dark Paladin)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: 2 Semi-Limited cards over the copy limit
• Low archetype purity (14.5 percent exact-name) and many off-archetype tech cards
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Complex ritual and link sequencing reduces pilotability

Critical choke points

• Ritual summons depend on Light and Darkness Ritual and the specific tribute or banish costs
• Extra Deck link pieces depend on specific partners such as Dragunity and Cyberse materials
• Interaction density is high but split across many narrow cards, so a single unanswered board can stall the plan

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck is 55 cards and Extra deck is 14, both inside the TCG size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse are each run 3 times against a Semi-Limited limit of 2 (Illegal); Exact archetype purity is 14.5 percent (10 exact-name copies, 59 off-archetype); Card stats for the ritual and fusion closers (2800-3000 ATK) are as listed in the evidence
• Observed: Archetype usage stats show Dark Magician core cards are standard for the archetype (e.g. Ash Blossom at 100 percent inclusion), but no recorded boards were supplied
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency estimate of about 0.72 for at least one archetype-core card (hypergeometric); Brick and dead-card risk from 7 hand traps, 11 tech cards and 18 searchers; Interaction density and resilience read from card text; Pilotability is lower due to ritual and link sequencing
• 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 record absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first and going-second splits are Inferred no side deck supplied (side_count 0): post-side plan is not evaluable Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null in the export