Pendulum Magician Deck #757292 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: No single reliable win condition. Late-game Extra Deck bosses (Vidolium 5000 ATK via Pendulum/Power Patron, Jupiter, Nerva, Hyperinvoked Aeon, Junora) are reachable only when the Artmage or Power Patron fusion/synchro lines connect.; Artmage Fusion boards (Artmage Diactorus, Artmage Non-Finito, Artmage Graflare) built from Medius the Pure and Artmage Academic Acropolis.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Pendulum Treasure or a Power Patron searcher and try to reach an Artmage or Power Patron starter. Keep hand traps for the opponent's first activation. Starter access is only about 25% per triple-copy card in a 5-card hand.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, PSY-Framegear Gamma, Evenly Matched and Dominus Spark to disrupt the opponent's first board. Then rebuild with Mulcharmy and Junoldo draws.
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia draw on summons. Medius recursion from the GY and Pot of Sloth refill the hand after an interruption.
• After siding: Not assessable. The deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system. Its power rests on consistency (engine access and bricks), interaction (9 hand traps and several negates), and a high ceiling (Power Patron and Artmage bosses at 3000 to 5000 ATK). It is not a score averaged from its cards. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype core is present for only 4 of 25 standard cards (16%), and the deck mixes about 16 sub-archetypes (Artmage, Power Patron, PSY-Frame, Branded, DoomZ, Mulcharmy, Ecclesia, Predaplant, Invoked and others). That mix creates engine conflicts and lowers the floor. The list is illegal at three over-limit cards, so it is capped at 25 and scored as theoretical and structural only. No combos were supplied, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-based inferences. The deck has no Side Deck, which limits its best-of-3 score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox primary, Midrange secondary (structural weights from Toolbox profile). Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 44, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); engine_conflicts (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap applied. Unscaled: 0.80*Structural(49) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) + modifiers(-12) = 34; capped to 25 as theoretical/structural-only (Meta provisional, null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · 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

• Nine hand traps plus Called by the Grave give multiple answers to the opponent's first activation.
• Extra Deck top-end (Vidolium, Hyperinvoked Aeon, Jupiter, Nerva) gives a high offensive ceiling.
• Draw and recursion engines (Mulcharmy, Pot of Sloth, Medius) help refill after interruption.
• Extra Deck covers Fusion, Synchro, Xyz and Link, so the deck has several summon routes.

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three cards exceed their copy limits.
• Sixteen sub-archetypes create engine conflicts and weaken the starter.
• 16 of 31 distinct main cards are single copies, which raises the brick rate.
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptation.
• The archetype core is present for only 4 of 25 standard cards.

Critical choke points

• Starter access depends on a few single-copy Power Patron and Artmage pieces (Artmage Academic Acropolis, Artmage Power Patron, Medius).
• The Extra Deck boss lines depend on Fusion material that a single interruption can remove.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: three over-limit cards (Ash Blossom 3 vs 2, Terminus 3 vs 1, Fallen & Virtuous 3 vs 2); status Illegal.; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within the TCG size rules; Side 0.; Archetype spread: 16 sub-archetypes; exact-name purity 0%.; Core archetype present for 4 of 25 standard cards (16%).; Extra Deck ATK values: Vidolium 5000, Hyperinvoked Aeon 3800, Jupiter 3500, Nerva 3300.
• Inferred: Consistency and brick estimates from hypergeometric probabilities and copy histogram.; Interaction density and going-second value from hand-trap and negation card text.; Engine-conflict penalty from sub-archetype spread.
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (D13); no dated meta sample.; Meta Power (null).
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent. No win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. No guides attached to the archetype.