Artmage Deck #750719 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a boss (Nerva, Guardian Chimera, Artmage Diactorus, Super Starslayer TY-PHON) through Artmage searchers and Fusion Material plays; Non-engine interaction-backed pressure (Raigeki, Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster) to break a stalled board
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Medius the Pure or Artmage Power Patron / Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis to search and Fusion Summon a 2400+ ATK boss while holding Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 6 cards with at least one hand trap (Ash or Infinite Impermanence), respond to the opponent's engine, then rebuild through Artmage searchers and Fusion Summon
• Recovery: Artmage Litera and Medius recursion from the GY, Artmage Power Patron Fusion Summon, and Artmage Varnish searching Artmage cards from the Deck
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel is best-of-one with no side deck (side_count 0)

Why it scores here

The deck opens a live Fusion plan reliably: the searcher-text group (15 copies) has about a 92% chance of at least one hit in a 5-card opening hand, and the Artmage core group is about 98% likely to show at least one card, so the engine is usually present on turn 1. Six hand traps (Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence) give the deck a real answer to going second, and the removal and negation text (Raigeki, Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Forbidden Crown, Artmage Impasto) supports end-board interaction. The ceiling comes from several 2800 to 3300 ATK Fusion and Xyz bosses, but the median is lower because 29 of 40 main deck copies are off-archetype or generic and the exact-name Artmage purity is only 47%. No combo boards were recorded, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-based inferences and the score is not an average of card scores; the usage stats confirm the list is a real build, but popularity did not add points, and Meta Power is provisional with no tournament link.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Toolbox secondary (disclosed, not weighted separately). Structural ≈ 65.3, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: engine purity / conflicts (-2); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + modifiers = 0.80*65.3 + 0.20*58 - 3 = 60.8, rounded to 61

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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 searcher and Fusion engine: 15 searcher-text cards with Medius and Power Patron as multi-role starters
• Six hand traps plus layered negation and removal give real interaction for both turn orders
• Several 2800 to 3300 ATK Fusion and Xyz bosses provide closing power

Weaknesses

• Exact-name Artmage purity is 47%; 29 of 40 main copies are off-archetype or generic
• Non-engine tech (Raigeki, Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Forbidden Crown) is dead in some hands
• No recorded boards, so the median and ceiling are uncalibrated

Critical choke points

• Medius the Pure and Artmage Power Patron (2 copies each) as the Fusion starters
• Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis as the Field Zone enabler for Artmage Varnish and Power Patron's searches

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 40 and Extra deck 15 are within Master Duel size rules; Harpie's Feather Duster (Limited, 1 copy) and Super Polymerization (Semi-Limited, 2 copies) are legal at the copies run; Exact-name Artmage purity is 47.3% and the core-card usage stats are present
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter and hand-trap probabilities from the hypergeometric table; Structural scoring from the Combo weight profile; Ceiling and interaction reads from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and tournament reliability (no tournament link); Side adaptability (best-of-one, no side deck)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are inferred Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample