Artmage Deck #754274 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Fusion, Toolbox, Pendulum
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 8 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Link boards built from Artmage and Power Patron monsters, closed by Nerva, Jupiter, Diactorus or Vidolium; Pendulum and Link extension via Exceed the Pendulum and Beyond the Pendulum slots, which are absent from this list
• Turn 1 (going first): Pendulum Treasure or Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis to find Artmage Power Patron or Medius the Pure, then Fusion Summon Artmage Non-Finito (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird to answer the opponent's first starter, then rebuild through Artmage Litera or Artmage Varnish (Inferred)
• Recovery: Searchers (Forbidden Crown, Mulcharmy hand effects, Theorealize Past Lull) rebuild from the hand after an interruption (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists; this is a structural gap, not a tuned choice

Why it scores here

The deck's Artmage core (27 copies, P(at least one in a 5-card opener) of about 0.98) makes an engine reliably available, which is the main reason its structural score is not lower. Conversion is text-only because no boards were recorded, so the ceiling and median scores are Inferred and carry wide uncertainty. Interaction (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Artmage Impasto, Nervedo) is layered and earns a moderate end-board score. The deck is capped low because it is illegal: the Extra Deck holds 17 cards against a limit of 15, three copies of Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization exceed their Semi-Limited cap, and three Forbidden cards are run. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn any points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 44, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 38, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8). Final formula: Illegal deck: the normal formula 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (about 42) is replaced by a low cap of 20; Meta Power is null (Provisional); theoretical and structural only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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

• Artmage core is present in nearly every opening hand by hypergeometric estimate
• Layered negation package: Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Artmage Impasto and Nervedo
• High-ATK Fusion and Link bosses are available in the Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• The deck is illegal: Extra Deck over the limit, copy limits exceeded, and Forbidden cards run
• No side deck
• Low archetype purity (24.3 percent) with many off-archetype generic cards

Critical choke points

• Illegal list status stops any normal competitive reading until the list is corrected
• Artmage Power Patron and Medius the Pure are the Fusion starters; losing them breaks the Fusion line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 53 and Extra Deck 17 (Extra over the 15-card limit); Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization are over copy limit (3 run, 2 allowed); Called by the Grave, Charmer Quartet in Bloom and Varudras are Forbidden and run; Archetype core present_pct 60 (15 of 25 usage-core cards)
• Inferred: P(at least one core Artmage card in opener) about 0.98; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample; Side deck adaptability: no side cards registered
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists, so going-first, going-second and matchup rates are Unknown No side deck registered Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied