Artmage Deck #730592 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Artmage (id 730592) — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 22/100 (±5 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Control
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 51 / Extra 19 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion summon boss monsters (Artmage Diactorus, Nerva) and disrupt with hand traps; Board control via negation and removal spells/traps
• Turn 1 (going first): Set up Artmage field spell + fusion boss with negation (Diactorus) and hand traps
• Turn 2 (going second): Use board breakers (Raigeki, Harpie's Feather Duster) and Super Poly to break board
• Recovery: Recursion via Medius the Pure, Artmage Varnish, Peripeteia
• After siding: No side deck (0 cards) - cannot adapt in best-of-3

Why it scores here

This deck is illegal because its Extra Deck contains 19 cards, exceeding the TCG maximum of 15, so it cannot be played in a sanctioned event and receives a capped theoretical score rather than a normal Final Contextual rating. The evaluation treats the list as a connected system: the Artmage fusion engine shows good consistency (P(core starter)≈0.84) and interaction layers from hand traps and boss negates, but missing side deck and over-size Extra Deck are fatal flaws. No individual card scores were averaged; the structural potential is offset by illegality and lack of combo telemetry. Popularity or usage stats (e.g., Ash Blossom 100% inclusion) did not earn points for power. Without parsed combos, floor and ceiling are inferred from card text only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 20. Modifiers: Illegal extra deck size (-10). Final formula: Illegal deck: capped low theoretical/structural-only; no normal Final Contextual score applied

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.84 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.16 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Strong fusion engine with multiple starters (Power Patron, Varnish, Acropolis, Medius)
• High hand trap density (11 copies) for interaction
• Recursion and searching via Medius and Artmage spells

Weaknesses

• Illegal extra deck size (19 > 15)
• No side deck (0 cards) for best-of-3 adaptation
• Missing common core cards like S:P Little Knight, Predaplant Dragostapelia per usage stats

Critical choke points

• Extra deck over limit makes deck illegal
• Dependence on Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis field spell for searches

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal (extra 19>15); Card text excerpts; Limited cards within copy limits (Called by Grave, Harpie's Feather Duster, Triple Tactics Talent)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric probabilities; Consistency and brick estimates; Combo ceiling/floor from card text only
• Provisional: Meta Power; Matchup coverage D13
• 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