Artmage Deck #756545 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±12 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Artmage boss monsters (Diactorus, Non-Finito, Nerva, plus Dogma/Arc Rebellion extra-deck options) through Medius the Pure and Artmage Power Patron fusion lines.; Extra-Deck Fusion and Xyz pressure from Artmage Graflare and Artmage Litera recursion once the board is established.
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1: Artmage Vandalism or Artmage Varnish to search or place Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis; Acropolis enables an extra Medius Normal Summon, Medius and Power Patron then provide fusion materials.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, and Artmage Impasto to interrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Medius and Artmage Litera from the GY.
• Recovery: Recover through Medius and Artmage Litera recursion from the Graveyard, and Artmage Graflare Special Summon from hand when an Artmage card is controlled.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional Artmage engine: the archetype core group has about 97 percent chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and Acropolis plus Medius gives a turn-1 route into Fusion Summons. Its interaction density is high, with 9 hand traps and roughly 11 negation-text and 18 removal-text cards in the Main Deck, so it can often stop the opponent's first board. The Extra Deck (11 Fusions plus Xyz, Link, and Synchro) gives multiple closing options, and Nerva at 3300 ATK and Diactorus at 2800 ATK are the main pressure points. The score is capped at 30 because The Fallen & The Virtuous is run three times against a Semi-Limited limit of two, so the list is illegal; it was not scored from popularity (usage stats only show the list is an accessible archetype core) and it was not an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*57 + 0.20*48 - 2 = 53.2, then capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only per rubric Step 2).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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

• Archetype core is dense (19 copies), giving about 97 percent starter access in a 5-card opening hand
• Layered interaction: 9 hand traps plus negation and removal text across the Main Deck
• Extra Deck offers several closing bosses, including Nerva at 3300 ATK and Diactorus at 2800 ATK
• Recursion through Medius and Artmage Litera supports recovery after disruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: The Fallen & The Virtuous is run three times against a limit of two
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Heavy Fusion dependence with multi-step material chains that are error-prone
• Core Extra boss Nerva is a single copy and a choke point for the closing plan

Critical choke points

• Medius the Pure and Artmage Power Patron as the fusion material source for almost every boss
• Single-copy Nerva as the main closing boss
• Single Acropolis-enabled turn-1 route into Medius Normal Summon

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: The Fallen & The Virtuous run 3 vs legal 2 (Illegal); Deck size 40 Main and 15 Extra, legal for Master Duel; Archetype core group presence (19 copies) and usage stats (core cards present 10 of 25); Card text and stats for the listed Artmage, Medius, Nerva, and Diactorus cards
• Observed: Usage statistics show the Artmage archetype core is accessible and widely run
• Inferred: Starter consistency estimate of about 0.97 from hypergeometric draws; Interaction density from negation and removal text roles; Closing power and going-second strength from card text and stats; Pilotability from fusion step count
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample supplied); Matchup and format fit (no tournament context)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied