Artmage Deck #750739 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 63/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Artmage / Nerva / Diactorus-class boss monsters from the Extra Deck, usually via Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis and Medius the Pure, then attack or negate-and-finish.; Hand-trap-supported Fusion pressure: Super Polymerization and Artmage Masterwork convert hand and field into an Extra Deck boss when the first line is disrupted.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with an Artmage starter (Acropolis, Varnish, Power Patron or Litera) plus a search line to Medius, then Fusion Summon or Special Summon into a 2800+ ATK boss while holding Ash Blossom / Effect Veiler for the opponent's turn.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler and Infinite Impermanence in hand (about 81% to hold at least one hand trap in a six-card hand) to answer the opponent's first combo activation, then rebuild through Artmage recursion.
• Recovery: Recover through Artmage Litera and Finmel from hand, Medius from the GY, and Artmage Masterwork banished from the GY, which re-enables Fusion lines after interaction.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side 0 of 0-15 allowed in Master Duel), so no post-side plan is evaluable; the deck relies entirely on main-deck flexibility.

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from how the system behaves, not from averaging its 40 main-deck cards or from the Artmage archetype's popularity: a 96% hypergeometric chance of at least one Artmage core card in a five-card opening hand (Inferred) and a 90% chance of a searcher is what earns the high consistency score (D1). Negation and removal text across 18 negation and 11 removal-tagged cards, plus 9 hand traps (about 81% chance of at least one in a six-card going-second hand, Inferred), gives it a strong end-board interaction and going-second response (D7, D8). Its Extra Deck of 2800–3300 ATK Fusion bosses drives the closing power (D9), but the conversion ceiling and median output (D3, D4) could not be measured because no recorded boards exist, so both stay near neutral and provisional. Side-deck adaptability is low because the deck runs no Side Deck at all, and matchup fit is provisional because no tournament or dated meta sample is linked. The rating is held back by brick and pilotability risk from the 36% exact-name purity and multi-step Fusion lines, and it is capped at Medium confidence without combo evidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Extra Deck Fusion dependence (-1); Artmage core density (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers (-1) = 0.80*65.08 + 0.20*60 - 1 ≈ 63

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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

• Core engine is almost always live: 96% for at least one Artmage core card in a five-card hand, and 90% for a searcher.
• Layered interaction: 9 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence) plus Impasto and Pact give strong going-second disruption.
• Extra Deck bosses reach 2800–3300 ATK, which gives real closing power.

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no matchup-specific adjustment.
• Exact-name Artmage purity is only 36.4%, so engine coherence depends on generic and off-archetype support cards.
• Combo ceiling and median are unmeasured because no recorded boards exist.

Critical choke points

• Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis and Medius the Pure as the main starter route into the Extra Deck bosses.
• Super Polymerization (Semi-Limited, 2 copies) as a Fusion enabler, which the deck depends on for several lines.
• Extra Deck Fusion monsters that require specific materials.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Master Duel: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Super Polymerization at 2 copies is within its Semi-Limited cap.; Exact-name Artmage purity 36.4%; 20 exact-name copies, 35 off-archetype copies.; Extra Deck composition: 11 Fusion, 2 Link, 1 Synchro, 1 Xyz.; Usage stats: 9 of 25 archetype-core cards present.
• Inferred: P(≥1 Artmage core in hand5) ≈ 0.96 and P(≥1 searcher in hand5) ≈ 0.90.; P(≥1 hand trap in six-card going-second hand) ≈ 0.81.; Going-first and going-second plans and the recovery route are read from card text.; Interaction quality (D7) and Fusion line conversion (D3) are semantic reads.
• Provisional: Median/floor output (D4), matchup fit (D13), and Meta Power (null).; Post-side adaptability (D12): no side deck is registered.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference (combo data.total combos = 0). No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent. No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred. Usage-stat in this deck flags look wrong for Extra Deck cards: Nerva (53589300), Diactorus (27184601) and Mudragon (54757758) are in this deck's Extra Deck but report in this deck=false, so 'missing core' overstates absences. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. No Side Deck is registered, so post-side performance cannot be assessed.