Artmage Deck #751301 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Combo
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 59 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion/Synchro/Link pressure from Artmage and Power Patron monsters (Artmage Non-Finito, Nerva, Diactorus, Junora, Vidolium) once the Pendulum and searcher lines reach the Extra Deck; Recurring Medius the Pure and Artmage monsters through the GY to rebuild boards after a single disruption
• Turn 1 (going first): Pendulum Treasure or Artmage Power Patron to reach a Fusion-enabling board, Artmage Academic Acropolis and Medius for extra Normal Summons, with Ash Blossom and Droll held as hand traps
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and D.D. Crow to answer the opponent's first starter, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draw triggers and Artmage searchers
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia draw when the hand is small; Theorealize Past Lull and Artmage Litera recover Artmage cards from the GY
• After siding: Not evaluable: sideMax is 0 in this export, so there is no side deck to adjust the plan

Why it scores here

The system was scored as one connected Midrange shell, not by averaging card scores. Its strongest reads are access and interaction: the archetype core is present in about 97% of opening 5-card hands and searcher text in about 94%, and ten hand traps plus fifteen negation-text cards give it a real answer to the first starter, especially going second (about 69% for at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand). Its floor and median output are unmeasured because no recorded boards exist, so the combo ceiling rests on text reads of Fusion, Synchro and Link lines. Two things pull the score down. The list is off-archetype heavy (about 23% exact-name purity, with Power Patron, Mulcharmy and Pendulum sub-archetypes diluting the engine), and it has no side deck to adapt. The deck is also illegal in its format: four Forbidden cards and four copy-limit overruns mean the structural score is theoretical only and the final score is capped low. Popularity did not earn points; archetype usage stats were used only to confirm the core. (Inferred)

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with a Toolbox secondary; about 80/20 weighting toward the Midrange profile. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); copy_limit_overruns (-2); illegal_cap (-19). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(61) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(55) = 59.8, plus context modifiers -10 = 49.8; capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal in its format (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.03 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core and searchers are reliably accessible in opening hands
• Ten hand traps and fifteen negation-text cards give layered answers, especially going second
• Fusion, Synchro, Link and Pendulum conversion routes give multiple finishers

Weaknesses

• Illegal in its format: four Forbidden cards and four copy-limit overruns
• Low exact-name archetype purity (23%) dilutes the engine
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded boards, so floor and median output are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Artmage Academic Acropolis and Medius the Pure as the main Normal Summon and search route
• Extra Deck access through Pendulum Treasure and Power Patron searchers

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status with seven copy-limit or Forbidden violations; Main 59 and Extra 15 within size rules; Side deck count is zero and sideMax is zero; Archetype core inclusion and searcher counts from the export
• Observed: Off-archetype copy spread and 23% exact-name purity; Extra Deck breakdown: 5 Fusion, 2 Synchro, 6 Link, 2 XYZ
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency and hand-trap timing from hypergeometric estimates; Interaction and resilience from card text reads; Structural score of 61 and tournament reliability of 55
• Provisional: Median output and format fit, because no combos or dated meta sample exist; Meta power is null
• Data gaps: No recorded boards; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and pilot records are absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup rates are unknown Meta power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck, so post-side adaptability cannot be assessed