Pendulum Magician Deck #759455 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 32/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss or Fusion/Link/Synchro finisher (Vidolium, Nerva, Junora, Jupiter, Chaos Angel) reached through Artmage and Power Patron searches and Fusion summons; Pendulum-zone and Link follow-up through Exceed the Pendulum and Beyond the Pendulum
• Turn 1 (going first): Search an Artmage or Power Patron card with Artmage Vandalism, Medius or Pendulum Treasure, then Fusion or Pendulum summon into a boss, backed by the hand traps Ash Blossom, Droll and Nervedo
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Nervedo to interrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Artmage Finmel, Medius and Artmage Litera
• Recovery: Recover through the Mulcharmy draw effects, Pot of Sloth, and Artmage Litera or Medius returning from the GY
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in TCG: the Extra Deck holds 16 cards against a limit of 15, and three staples are run above their copy limits (Ash Blossom 3 vs 2, Terminus 3 vs 1, Super Polymerization 3 vs 2). The score is therefore a capped, theoretical structural read, not a normal contextual score. The deck is spread across Artmage, Power Patron, Pendulum, Mulcharmy, Elfnote, DoomZ, Predaplant and Sky Striker cards with no archetype core, so its starters are individually thin (about 0.18 to 0.26 for any single 2- or 3-copy card in a 5-card opener). Searcher density (21 cards, about 0.93 chance of at least one in the opener) and a 17-card negation/removal suite give it real resilience and resource flow. Its Extra Deck finishers have high ceilings, but no recorded boards exist, so conversion and median output are unmeasured and kept near neutral. The score comes from the system's consistency, interaction and cohesion, not from averaging the card scores or from the archetype's popularity.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 46, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); engine_conflicts (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Illegal deck, so the result is capped and theoretical only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.26 · 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

• Dense searcher suite (21 cards) gives about 0.93 chance of at least one searcher in the opener
• 17 negation and 19 removal-text cards provide layered interaction
• Several high-ATK Extra Deck finishers
• Recursion through Mulcharmy draw effects, Pot of Sloth and GY-revival Medius and Litera

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Extra Deck over limit and three copy-limit violations
• No archetype core; 1-copy slots dilute starter reliability
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded boards, so combo output is unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Artmage Power Patron and Medius, the main Fusion access points, each at 2 copies (about 0.18 chance per opener)
• Fusion summon routes that depend on the Extra Deck boss suite

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Extra 16 over limit 15; copy-limit violations for Ash Blossom, Terminus and Super Polymerization; Main deck 54 cards within 40-60; Searcher, hand-trap and negation text counts; Archetype purity 0% exact-name
• Inferred: Starter and hand-trap hypergeometric probabilities; Strategy classification as Midrange with Toolbox secondary; Interaction layering and going-second hand-trap coverage; Pilotability from multi-engine sequencing
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Combo median output (no boards)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck has no Side Deck, so post-side evaluation is not possible