Artmage Deck #765664 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Link pressure from Artmage / Power Patron engine monsters (Artmage Non-Finito, Nerva-type boards, Vidolium, Mediclius, Junora) converting a Pendulum-driven hand into a wide, ATK-heavy board; Hand-trap-supported disruption (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) buying time for Extra Deck summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Artmage Power Patron or Artmage Finmel with Pendulum Treasure / Artmage Varnish to reach Fusion materials, then build a Link or Fusion board behind Artmage Impasto and Artmage Pact protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Infinite Impermanence to stop the opponent's first summon chain, then rebuild through Artmage searchers and Theorealize Past Lull
• Recovery: Searchers (21 texts) and recursive Power Patron / Medius effects from GY and banish zones refill the hand after a broken turn
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck carries no side cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This Artmage list is Illegal as submitted: it runs three copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a Semi-Limited limit of two, so under the rubric it receives no normal Final Contextual score and the result is capped at 30 and labeled theoretical/structural-only. Structurally the deck reliably opens an Artmage or Power Patron starter (about 95% for the 24-card archetype core in a five-card hand, Inferred) and carries dense interaction: 11 hand traps, 15 negation texts and 24 removal texts. It closes through Fusion and Link pressure (Vidolium at 5000 ATK, Nerva-type and Mediclius-type boards), though several recorded core Extra Deck cards are absent. Its weaknesses are the absence of any recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inference, the 15-card Extra Deck mixing off-archetype Link and Fusion targets, and a deck with no side plan. The score reflects consistency, interaction and closing power on the system; it does not come from Artmage's popularity or from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Stun secondary; structural weights from the Midrange profile. Structural ≈ 55.3, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist / copy-limit violation (-8); No side deck (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*55.3 + 0.20*45 = 53.2; modifiers -12 gives 41.2; Illegal legality caps the result at 30 (theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core is almost always reachable in an opening hand (about 95%, Inferred)
• Dense interaction: 11 hand traps and 15 negation texts across both turn orders
• High end-board ATK from Power Patron Extra Deck monsters
• Deep searcher and recursion text (21 searchers) supports resource recovery

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring exceeds its copy limit
• No recorded boards, so combo ceiling and median cannot be measured
• Extra Deck contains off-archetype targets (Predaplant, Varudras, Charmer) with no engine link to the core
• No side deck, so no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Starter Artmage Power Patron / Finmel count is only 2 copies each, so a single missed starter can stall the Fusion route
• Fusion summons depend on Artmage Non-Finito and Medius being present in the hand or GY

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2 (violation); Main deck 55 cards and Extra Deck 15 cards are within TCG size rules; Deck contains 0 side cards; Core group coverage 15 of 25 usage-core cards present (60%)
• Observed: No recorded boards; combos_evidence is empty
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability ≈ 0.95 for the 24-card archetype core; Going-second hand-trap probability ≈ 0.76 for 11 hand traps; Interaction density is high from negation and removal text; Midrange with Stun secondary is the closest strategy profile
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample is supplied; Matchup fit (D13) is provisional without a dated meta
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred no side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed no guides attached to the archetype