Artmage Deck #765354 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Fusion
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Artmage boss monsters (Diactorus, Non-Finito, Nerva) through the Artmage Acropolis and Power Patron engine, then keep the board with Finmel, Graflare and Litera pressure.; Attrition through hand traps and backrow negation (Ash Blossom, Evenly Matched, Impasto, Pact, Infinite Impermanence) until the opponent runs out of resources.
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening hand with Acropolis, Vandalism, Finmel or Varnish: set up the field spell, search Medius or Power Patron, and make a Fusion Summon or hold Ash and Impasto up for the opponent's first activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with a hand trap (Ash, Evenly Matched, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C) to stop the first search or summon, then rebuild with Litera or Graflare from the GY and a Fusion Summon once the board is stabilised.
• Recovery: Recover through GY effects: Litera adds an Artmage from the GY, Medius can return from the GY, and Masterwork can be banished from the GY to add Artmage cards. Field spell re-placement from the GY restores the engine.
• After siding: No side deck is supplied (side_count 0). Master Duel-style single-deck evaluation; no post-side plan can be assessed.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an Artmage starter: about 20 of 40 main-deck cards are searchers or starters (Vandalism, Finmel, Acropolis, Varnish, Litera, Graflare, Medius, Power Patron), which gives roughly 0.98 odds of at least one in an opening five (Inferred). Its interaction is the strongest part of the list, with 10 hand traps plus several negation and backrow answers, so it can stop an opponent's first line and rebuild, which is why interaction and resilience score above the engine itself. Conversion is the weak point: no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling (Nerva, Diactorus, Non-Finito) is only a text-based read, and the floor is unknown. Popularity and archetype share earned no points, because the usage data is partly inconsistent and no tournament context exists. The score comes from consistency, interaction and recovery on the system as a whole, not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange, D13 dropped and renormalised over 95. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 71, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Diluted engine / off-archetype Extra Deck (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (no dated meta, Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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

• Redundant engine: about 20 starter or searcher cards and roughly 0.98 odds of one in an opening five
• Dense interaction: 10 hand traps plus layered backrow negation
• Good GY recovery through Litera, Medius and Masterwork
• Strong going-second hand-trap coverage (about 0.85)
• Boss monsters with high ATK in the Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only estimates
• Low exact-name purity (45.5%) and off-archetype Extra Deck spread
• Heavy generic and tech load (17 of 40 main cards)
• High execution complexity across fusion chains
• No side deck or post-side data

Critical choke points

• Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis as the engine hub (3 copies, but the field spell is a single point of failure once removed)
• Super Polymerization and Power Patron as the only fusion enablers in the main deck (2 copies each)
• Limited and Semi-Limited restricted cards (Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Super Polymerization, The Fallen and The Virtuous) cap redundancy at legal copy limits

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 40 cards, Extra Deck 15 cards, no side; legal under master-duel size rules; Copy histogram and banlist statuses (Maxx C Limited 1; Droll and Lock Bird, Super Polymerization, The Fallen and The Virtuous Semi-Limited 2); Hypergeometric numbers match the stated formulas (0.3376 for 3 copies in an opening 5)
• Observed: Usage statistics show the archetype core is widely run (Ash Blossom 94%, Impasto 94%, Power Patron 89%)
• Inferred: Starter redundancy and opening-hand consistency (about 0.98 for at least one starter in five); Interaction layering from card text (10 hand traps plus negation and backrow); Recovery through GY effects from card text; Going-second hand-trap odds of about 0.85
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample; Matchup and format fit (D13) is a neutral placeholder with 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 side deck and no post-side data Usage-statistics conflict: Nerva, S:P Little Knight, Predaplant Dragostapelia, Mudragon of the Swamp and Artmage Diactorus appear in the cards list with 1 to 2 copies, yet usage_statistics marks them in_this_deck=false. The core-present percentage (40%) and missing_core list are therefore unreliable and were not used to score Usage typical copies differ from the deck's run: Varnish typical 1 vs 3 run, Graflare typical 1 vs 2, Litera typical 1 vs 2 No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second split is Inferred only Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied