Ars Magna Deck #765673 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Power Patron Link and Ars Magna monster pressure (Vidolium, Mediclius, Ars Magna boards) built from Elfnote and Mulcharmy draw and search engines; Midrange board from Elfnote and Medius Synchro/Link extra-deck monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Mulcharmy and Elfnote starters draw and search into a Power Patron or Ars Magna line; Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence protect the turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Kuriboh, Nibiru) interrupt the opponent, then Mulcharmy draws rebuild the hand
• Recovery: Mulcharmy draw effects and searchers (Pendulum Treasure, Ars Magna Citrinitas, Purification Power Patron) refill hand after disruption
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck (side_count 0)

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal: Elfnote Lucina is run 3 times against a limit of 1 and Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 times against a limit of 2, so it is scored as a structural-only theoretical read and capped at 30. Structurally it has a reasonably accessible starter base, since the Mulcharmy and Elfnote draw and search engines give about a 0.91 chance of at least one archetype-core card in the opening five and 0.96 for a searcher, and its 14 hand traps and removal text give it real interaction on the opponent's turn. The deck has no side deck and an 8% exact-archetype purity across Elfnote, Mulcharmy, Power Patron, Artmage and Medius pieces, so it reads as a toolbox rather than a single engine, and the combo ceiling and median are unknown because no recorded boards exist. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points; scores come from consistency, interaction and resilience assessed across the system, not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: copy-limit violation (banlist exposure) (-10); no side deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(56) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-12) = 42, capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · 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 draw and search engines (Mulcharmy, Elfnote, Pendulum Treasure) keep the hand supplied
• 14 hand traps and multiple negation/removal texts give interaction on both turns
• Extra Deck is well spread across Link, Synchro, Xyz and Fusion, so it can answer several board states

Weaknesses

• Illegal as listed: two cards exceed their copy limits
• Low archetype purity (8%) spreads the engine across several sub-archetypes
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Elfnote Lucina and Ash Blossom copy limits must be fixed before the deck is playable
• Power Patron Link lines depend on a few single-copy extra-deck pieces (Mediclius, Purification Power Patron)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal: Elfnote Lucina 3 vs limit 1; Ash Blossom 3 vs limit 2; Main 60 and Extra 15 are within size rules; side 0; Card text and banlist status for listed cards
• Observed: Exact-archetype purity 8%; archetype spread across 19 sub-archetypes
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency from hypergeometric draws (P ≈ 0.91 for core group); Interaction and recovery reads from card text; Going-first and going-second splits
• Provisional: Meta and format fit (D13), since no dated metagame sample exists
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed