Deck Dark Magician #718136 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Control
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 20 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Maintain Dark Magician on the field protected by Eternal Soul and win với high‑ATK Fusion/Link monsters.; Utilize board‑breakers like Red‑Eyes Dark Dragoon or Dark Magician the Dragon Knight for lethal damage.
• Turn 1 (going first): Summon Dark Magician via Magician's Rod or Timaeus, activate Eternal Soul for protection, set Dark Magical Circle, then use Secrets of Dark Magic or 1 Fusion to bring 1 strong monster.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Forbidden Droplet or Illusion of Chaos to halt the opponent, then summon Dark Magician and 1 Fusion/Link such as Red‑Eyes Dark Dragoon for board control.
• Recovery: Draw với Magicians' Souls or The Dark Magicians, recycle Dark Magical Circle, and re‑summon Dark Magician via Eternal Soul.
• After siding: Rely on flexible Extra Deck options (Knightmare Phoenix, Underworld Goddess) to adapt after sides; no side deck present.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens 1 Dark Magician on turn one via Magician's Rod or Timaeus and protects it với Eternal Soul, creating 1 solid engine. It can convert that engine into 1 powerful Fusion or Link monster for pressure, and has multiple defensive tools (Forbidden Droplet, Illusion of Chaos) to survive disruption. However, the main deck contains many off‑archetype staples, lacks 1 side deck, and the combo floor is modest, which limits consistency. Scores reflect strong interaction and closing power but penalize brick risk and pilot complexity. No meta data was available, so meta power remains provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Side deck absence (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening 1 starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · key two‑card combo ≈ — · full‑brick estimate ≈ 0.3 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board‑per‑starter —
• Turn order: 0 going‑first lines vs 0 going‑second lines

Strengths

• High protection với Eternal Soul
• Multiple win‑conditions (Dark Magician, high‑ATK fusions)
• Strong interaction suite (negations, board clears)

Weaknesses

• Low deck consistency due to many off‑archetype cards
• No side deck reduces adaptability
• Reliant on drawing several key cards to execute engines

Critical choke points

• Need Dark Magician in hand to activate Eternal Soul
• Fusion engines require Timaeus or Illusion of Chaos in hand or field

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: legality status Legal; role_tag_counts showing 6 negation cards; side deck count 0
• Inferred: engine accessibility based on copy counts and probabilities; brick estimate from off‑archetype count; combo ceiling and floor from textual engine potential; interruption resilience from multiple independent tools; resource economy from draw engines; endboard interaction from tag counts; going‑second board breaking from listed cards; offensive closing power from ATK of Fusion monsters; main deck efficiency from purity percentage; extra deck efficiency from number of useful extra cards; pilotability from decision complexity
• Provisional: matchup format fit due to missing tournament data
• 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 1 dated metagame sample is supplied