Artmage Deck #759588 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Nerva the Power Patron of Creation, Junora, Varudras) reached through Power Patron / Artmage starters and Fusion/Link/Synchro lines; Artmage Non-Finito / Diactorus / Graflare board pressure and Mulcharmy draw advantage
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Pendulum Treasure, Artmage Power Patron, Medius the Pure) and bridge into a Power Patron boss; hold Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird for the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand for hand traps (Ash Blossom, Kuriboh - Multiply!, Evenly Matched, Droll & Lock Bird) to interrupt the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draws
• Recovery: Pot of Sloth, Mulcharmy draw effects and Theorealize / Artmage searchers refill the hand after a disrupted turn
• After siding: No side deck is listed, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck's consistency rests on 26 searcher-text cards and a 25-copy archetype core that gives a 0.96 proxy chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, with Power Patron and Artmage starters converting into Fusion, Link and Synchro bosses. Its interaction layer of 8 hand traps and several floor-level negations gives it reasonable resilience when going second, and Mulcharmy and Pot of Sloth supply card advantage across a long round. Scores are not pulled up by the deck's popularity or by averaging the individual card scores; no combo boards, guides, tournament results or side-deck data exist, so median output and matchup fit stay Inferred or Provisional. The list is over the copy limit for Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (3 run, 2 legal), so it is capped at a theoretical, structural-only score of 35 rather than receiving a normal Final Contextual score. Main Deck coherence is weak (23.9% exact-name archetype purity across 19 archetype names), which holds the efficiency and pilotability dimensions down.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (-6); Banlist exposure (-3); No side deck (-3). Final formula: Illegal list: 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 52.2; modifiers total -12 gives 40.2; capped at 35 as theoretical/structural-only because the deck is over the Ash Blossom copy limit. Meta Power provisional (null).

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

• 26 searcher-text cards and a 25-copy archetype core give high opening access
• 8 hand traps and layered negations give going-second disruption
• Extra Deck bosses (Nerva, Junora, Varudras) provide strong closing power

Weaknesses

• Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is over the copy limit (3 vs 2), making the list illegal
• Only 23.9% of main cards are exact-name Artmage, with 19 archetype names mixed in
• No side deck, and no combo or matchup data to support a consistency claim

Critical choke points

• Single over-limit Ash Blossom copy must be removed before the list is legal
• Power Patron starters are needed to reach most Extra Deck bosses

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 3 copies vs 2 legal; Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within the TCG size rules; Archetype purity 23.9% (17 of 71 cards) and 19 archetype names; Extra Deck composition: 7 Link, 5 Fusion, 2 Xyz, 1 Synchro; Restricted cards and their banlist status
• Observed: Usage statistics: 41 rows, 15 of 25 core cards present in the list
• Inferred: P(>=1 core card in opening 5) = 0.96; going-first 2-copy starter P = 0.17; Hand-trap coverage and negation density; Going-second disruption estimate
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13)
• 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/second, matchup, starter/brick rates) Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck (side_count 0), so D12 and best-of-3 cannot be evaluated Data inconsistency: missing_core lists Nerva the Power Patron of Creation and Varudras as absent, but both appear in cards with zone 'extra'; cards was trusted over missing_core Deck title is null; name unavailable