Artmage Deck #759534 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Artmage Fusion/Link/Synchro boards built from Power Patron and Artmage monsters, closing through Nerva, Junora, Jupiter, or Vidolium with high ATK.; Mulcharmy draw-engine attrition and Medius/Artmage Fusion pressure, with hand traps protecting the first combo turn.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with an Artmage or Power Patron starter (Artmage Power Patron, Artmage Finmel, Artmage Litera, Pendulum Treasure route) into a Fusion or Pendulum extension; the deck is weak to a clean T1 hand with no starter.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Kuriboh, and Evenly Matched to answer the opponent's first board, then extend through Medius and Artmage Fusion monsters.
• Recovery: Recover from a single interruption with Medius/Artmage searchers and Theorealize Past Lull or Purification Power Patron searches, but only if the Extra Deck remains reachable.
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no Side Deck (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists.

Why it scores here

The deck's engine reliability is moderate: the Artmage core (25 copies, P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.96 for the core group) is usually present, but only 17 of 55 Main Deck copies are exact Artmage names (24.3% purity), so many opening hands carry off-plan cards. Interaction is layered through eight hand traps and twelve negation-text cards, which keeps the deck resilient against one interruption and gives it a reasonable going-second plan. Offensive closing comes from high-ATK Power Patron and Artmage Extra Deck monsters, but no recorded boards exist to confirm a median or ceiling, so combo conversion is scored from card text alone. The score is capped at 25 because the list is Illegal: three Forbidden cards and two over-limit Semi-Limited/Limited cards break the format rules. Popularity and archetype usage stats were not used to add points, and the card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); no side deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap: uncapped 0.80*Structural(49) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + modifiers(-12) ≈ 35, capped to 25 because the list is Illegal (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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 with high probability in the opening hand (≈0.96 for the 25-copy group).
• Layered interaction: eight hand traps plus negation text give resilience on both turn orders.
• High-ATK Extra Deck closers (Nerva, Jupiter, Junora, Vidolium) provide real endboard pressure.

Weaknesses

• The list is Illegal: three Forbidden cards and two copy-limit violations (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird).
• Low archetype purity (24.3%) and 53 off-archetype copies raise the brick rate.
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptability.
• Complex multi-step sequencing lowers pilot error tolerance.

Critical choke points

• The Forbidden Extra Deck cards (Charmer Quartet, Varudras) occupy two Extra slots that cannot be legally played.
• Going first with no Artmage or Power Patron starter in the opening five cards leaves the deck without a turn-1 plan.
• Relying on Fusion and Link summons through a single Extra Deck starter chain creates a single point of failure.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Forbidden and over-limit copies are present (Called by the Grave, Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Varudras, Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird).; Main Deck is 55 cards and Extra Deck is 15, both within TCG size limits.; Archetype purity is 24.3% exact name (17 of 55 Main Deck copies).
• Inferred: Consistency: P(≥1 starter in 5) ≈ 0.96 for the 25-copy Artmage core group.; Interaction density from hand traps and negation text supports going-second resilience.; Brick rate is high because of off-archetype copies and level-0 spells.
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record are absent. No win-rate telemetry: going-first and going-second results are unknown. usage_statistics in_this_deck flags contradict the cards list (e.g. Junora, Nerva, Predaplant, Varudras are marked not in deck but appear in cards), so core_present_pct = 60 is unreliable. Meta Power is Provisional.