Artmage Deck #756735 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 10 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion-driven boards from Artmage and Power Patron Fusion/Link/Synchro extra-deck threats, with Artmage Graflare and Vidolium-style Power Patron pressure as closers.; Mulcharmy draw-engine grind combined with interaction (hand traps and negations) to win a long game.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Artmage Power Patron and Pendulum Treasure or Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis to reach a Fusion Summon of Artmage Diactorus or Nerva; protect with Ash Blossom and Nervedo.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-trap the opponent's starter with Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Droll, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draws.
• Recovery: Artmage Litera and Artmage Finmel recycle Artmage cards from the GY; Pendulum Treasure restores Pendulum access.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan. Structural read only.

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal in its TCG format: six Forbidden cards are present and three Semi-Limited and one Limited card are over their copy limits, so it is capped and scored as theoretical and structural only. Its core engine (25 archetype-core copies, about 95% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand per the hypergeometric estimate) is reliable on paper, and the deck has strong interaction density from hand traps and negation text. Those strengths are offset by a split between Artmage, Power Patron, Mulcharmy, Branded and Forbidden lines, which lowers engine coherence (only 22% exact-name archetype purity), and by the absence of any recorded boards, so the combo floor and median cannot be measured. No Side Deck is registered, and no tournament or meta data is supplied, so the score does not reflect popularity or matchup results; card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 44, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4); illegal cap (-3). Final formula: Illegal cap: theoretical structural score only. Uncapped 0.80*Structural(47) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 45.6, then modifiers -12 (banlist exposure -8, engine conflicts -4) = 33.6, capped to 30 because the deck is illegal. Meta Power provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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

• Core archetype density gives high at-least-one access to engine pieces (about 95% in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred)
• Layered interaction: 10 hand traps and 16 negation-text cards provide several answers
• High-ATK end-board threats (Vidolium 5000, Jupiter 3500, Nerva 3300) if the engine lines up

Weaknesses

• Illegal in TCG: six Forbidden cards and four over-limit cards
• Multiple competing sub-archetypes reduce engine coherence (22% exact-name purity)
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• Heavy extra-deck dependence with several illegal Extra Deck cards

Critical choke points

• Access to Artmage Power Patron and Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis (2 copies each) is the main engine start
• Forbidden cards cannot be played in TCG, so the list must be rebuilt before any real play
• No Side Deck means matchup flexibility is zero

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: six Forbidden cards and four over-limit cards (Illegal); Main 57, Extra 15, Side 0; Main within 40–60 and Extra within 0–15; Archetype purity 22.2% exact-name; 56 off-archetype copies; Core archetype group: 25 copies present in deck
• Inferred: At least one archetype-core copy in a 5-card opening hand about 0.95 (hypergeometric); Interaction density from text-role counts (negation 16, removal 29, hand traps 10); Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample); Tournament Reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck registered