Magical Musket Deck #774898 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 37/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Fiendsmith, Magical Musket and Link/Fusion bodies) built through Fiend-based engine sequencing, not verifiable from the evidence because no combos were supplied; Disruption-led grind: hand traps and negations stall the opponent until a Fiend or Musket board closes
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Magical Musketeer Caspar or Starfire (3 copies each, about 25 percent to hold one in a 5-card hand) to set up Magical Musket Spell/Trap activations and search, then extend into a Fiendsmith or Musket Link (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand to hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Nibiru and Solemn effects (about 76 percent to hold at least one hand trap) and break the opponent's first board before extending (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through Musket and Fiendsmith searchers (Engraver, Tract, Doc, Caspar) and Extra Deck Link summons; the lack of a verified combo line makes the depth of this recovery unverified (Inferred)
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games in this list

Why it scores here

The score is capped low because the list is Illegal: three Forbidden cards (Triple Tactics Talent in the Main Deck, Aerial Eater and D/D/D Wave High King Caesar in the Extra Deck) are run at one copy each, so this is a theoretical, structural-only read. The deck holds two independent engines (Magical Musket with 14 exact-name copies and Fiendsmith with 13) plus Mulcharmy and a Solemn/Dominus interaction suite, which gives reasonable redundancy against single interruptions, but the purity is only 20 percent exact-name and the engines compete for the same 55 slots. Interaction is the strongest part of the system (17 negation-text cards, 11 hand traps, 17 removal-text cards), which supports the going-second board-breaking read. Conversion and floor output cannot be verified because no combos were supplied, and there is no Side Deck, no tournament link and no win-rate telemetry, so the consistency and matchup numbers are Inferred or Provisional. Popularity did not earn points: the Magical Musket core inclusion is high, but that only confirms the list is real, and the scores were not averaged from individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox weights used; Stun noted as secondary but not blended into the weight table. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); Engine conflict (-2). Final formula: Theoretical/structural-only (deck is Illegal): 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*48.25 + 0.20*40 - 10 = 36.6, rounded to 37

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

• Two engines (Magical Musket and Fiendsmith) give redundant starter access
• Dense interaction: 11 hand traps, 17 negation-text and 17 removal-text cards
• Core Musketeer starters at 3 copies each are well represented

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three Forbidden cards must be removed before it can be played
• Low compactness: 20 percent exact-name archetype purity and 19 tech cards
• No Side Deck and no verified combo lines
• Two Forbidden Extra Deck slots reduce usable Extra coverage

Critical choke points

• Forbidden Triple Tactics Talent and Extra Deck Forbidden cards must be removed to make the list legal
• Hand-trap and negation density depends on opening a Fiend or Musket starter, which is about 25 percent per 3-copy card in a 5-card hand

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: three Forbidden cards run (Triple Tactics Talent, Aerial Eater, D/D/D Wave High King Caesar); Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts and size rules; Card texts and banlist statuses for the listed cards; Usage stats: Magical Musketeer Caspar 100 percent core inclusion
• Inferred: Starter consistency from hypergeometric draw odds; Interaction density from negation and removal text; Going-second hand-trap coverage; Pilot complexity from engine count
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is 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, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null; the list has no Side Deck registered