Artmage Deck #765780 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• 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 Artmage Power Patron, Medius the Pure and Artmage Varnish/Acropolis searches, then attack or negate through the end-board; Hand-trap and negation-backed midrange boards (Ash Blossom, Impermanence, Evenly Matched, Droll, Maxx C) that protect a single Fusion boss
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis or Varnish to search Medius or Power Patron, Normal Summon Medius, add a Power Patron, then Fusion Summon a boss from the Extra Deck
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll and Maxx C to answer the opponent's first draw or search, then rebuild the Artmage engine from Litera, Graflare and Medius in the GY
• Recovery: Recur Artmage cards from the GY with Artmage Litera and Medius (GY effects), then re-enter Fusion materials through Super Polymerization or Power Patron
• After siding: Not defined: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an Artmage engine: the 19 archetype-core copies give about a 97% chance of at least one in a five-card opening hand, and 16 searcher-text cards give about 94%, so the starter is usually live on turn one or two. Its conversion ceiling comes from a Fusion Extra Deck (11 Fusion monsters plus Synchro, Xyz and Link) that can reach high-ATK bosses such as Nerva and Diactorus, while the median output is unknown because no recorded boards were supplied. Interaction is layered across 10 hand traps and 12 negation-text cards, which lets the deck protect a boss through one interruption, and resource recovery comes from GY effects on Litera and Medius. The score is driven by consistency, closing power and interaction measured on the whole system; it is not an average of card scores, and Artmage popularity or usage share did not earn points. The deck has no side deck and no tournament or win-rate data, so tournament reliability and meta fit are held down and the uncertainty band is wide.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: no side deck (-2); fusion extra-deck dependence (-2); off-archetype splash (-1); compact engine core (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*64.3 + 0.20*55.3 = 62.5, then modifiers -3 = 59.5, rounded to 60

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.03 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype-core density gives near-certain starter access (0.969 in a 5-card hand)
• Layered interaction: 10 hand traps and 12 negation-text cards
• Strong closing bosses with high ATK and piercing or double-damage texts
• Multiple independent starters for interruption recovery

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so zero post-side adaptability
• Low exact archetype purity (45.5%) with several off-archetype Extra Deck singletons
• High execution complexity from multi-step Fusion lines
• No recorded combos, so median output cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• Artmage Power Patron and Medius the Pure (2 copies each) gate Fusion Summons and searches
• Super Polymerization (2 copies) is a required Fusion enabler for off-engine bosses
• Going-second hands without a hand trap or starter (about 15.5%)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side within master-duel size rules; All restricted cards within copy limits (Maxx C 1/1, Droll 2/2, Super Polymerization 2/2, Fallen and Virtuous 2/2); Card text and archetype composition for all 36 distinct cards; Archetype usage statistics available (36 rows)
• Inferred: Starter hypergeometric probabilities (0.969 archetype core, 0.935 searcher); Structural dimension scores D1 to D14; Interaction density from text read; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup fit (D13); Tournament reliability (no win-rate or match data)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) exists in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no Side Deck supplied, so post-side performance cannot be assessed