Artmage Deck #750338 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Interaction
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Artmage boss monsters (Non-Finito, Diactorus, Nerva, Guardian Chimera) from the Extra Deck, enabled by Artmage searchers and Medius the Pure.; Attrition through repeated Artmage recursion, Graflare and Litera battle-protection pressure, and Azamina or Garura follow-up.
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis, Normal Summon Medius, then Vandalism or Varnish to add an Artmage starter, and build a Fusion board with Super Polymerization or Masterwork.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Impasto to protect the first Artmage starter, then use Diactorus or Non-Finito to convert the surviving board.
• Recovery: Recur Artmage cards from the GY through Litera, Graflare and Medius, and reuse Acropolis to add a fresh Artmage card when the field is cleared.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan. A best-of-3 deck would need a 15-card side to adapt.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an Artmage starter: 18 archetype-core copies give P(at least one open in a 5-card hand) of about 0.96, and 14 searcher-text cards give about 0.90 (Inferred). Its interaction suite (Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre at 3 copies each, Impasto, Pact, Lightning Storm, Feather Duster, Illusion Gate, and Diactorus negation text) is the strongest part of the system. Its conversion ceiling sits on the Fusion Extra Deck, but no recorded boards exist, so median output and combo conversion are text-based estimates, not measured results. Popularity and usage stats only show the list is an accessible, archetype-standard build; they did not add points. Scores come from the deck as a connected system, not from averaging card scores. The main gaps are the absent side deck, only 43.6% exact-name Artmage purity, and no tournament or meta data.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Midrange secondary (interaction density and searchers); no explicit blend ratio. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 61, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Extra Deck dependence (-1); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural ≈ 62.4, TR ≈ 55, modifiers −2 → 59

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.04 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High starter access: 18 archetype-core copies and 14 searcher-text cards give a very high chance of an Artmage starter by turn 1.
• Layered interaction: 6 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards and two sweepers cover both turns.
• Fusion boss ceiling at 2800 to 3300 ATK, with Non-Finito and Diactorus providing repeatable pressure.

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so there is no adaptability in best-of-3 play.
• Only 43.6% exact-name Artmage purity; 19 generic and 31 off-archetype copies dilute the engine.
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be measured.

Critical choke points

• Acropolis or Vandalism must resolve early; losing the first Artmage starter to a hand trap or board breaker leaves the Fusion line without enablers.
• Super Polymerization's material requirement can fail if the field is cleared, and the deck has only 2 copies.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal Master Duel list: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; no violations.; Copy limits: Super Polymerization 2/2 (Semi-Limited) and Harpie's Feather Duster 1/1 (Limited) at full legal copies.; Composition: 19 distinct main cards, 14 distinct Extra cards, 43.6% exact-name Artmage purity.
• Observed: Usage statistics: 9 of 25 archetype core cards present (36%).
• Inferred: P(≥1 Artmage starter in hand5) ≈ 0.96 for the core group; P(≥1 searcher) ≈ 0.90.; Full-brick estimate 0.04 in hand5.; Interaction density from negation and removal text (11 and 20 cards).; Going-first and going-second estimates based on text and probability.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null and matchup fit is 50 with no dated metagame sample.; Tournament reliability is an estimate with no tournament link.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link: archetype meta share and per-pilot record are absent. No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first, going-second and matchup results are unknown. Data inconsistency: usage core_cards marks Nerva the Power Patron of Creation (53589300) as not in the deck, but the cards list runs it at 1 copy in the Extra Deck. The Nerva-based dimension scores assume the cards list is correct. No side deck is registered, so D12 is scored on an empty side list. No guides attached for the archetype.