Artmage Deck #765863 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion/Pendulum/Xyz boards led by Vidolium (5000 ATK), Nerva (3300 ATK), Jupiter, Varudras or Diactorus, built off Power Patron pendulum scales and Artmage Fusion Summons; Artmage Non-Finito / Diactorus board pressure from Super Polymerization and Medius-based Fusion lines
• Turn 1 (going first): Pendulum Treasure or Power Patron search into Nervedo/Vidolium pendulum scales, then Artmage Power Patron or Medius to Fusion; keep Ash, Impermanence or Ghost Ogre for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Use 9 hand traps (Ash, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C, Artmage Impasto/Pact) to answer the opponent's board, then rebuild through Super Polymerization or Medius Special Summons
• Recovery: Theorealize Past Lull (banished from GY) and Medius GY revival, plus Artmage Litera / Graflare recursion from the GY to rebuild a body after a hand-trap or board-wipe exchange
• After siding: None: the deck runs no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no evidenced post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a searcher: P(at least one of its 17 searcher-text cards in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.95, and the 24 archetype-core copies make a Power Patron or Artmage starter likely (Inferred). Its ceiling comes from pendulum-scale and Fusion lines that can reach 3300 to 5000 ATK boards, but no recorded boards exist, so the conversion and median scores are text-only inference. Interaction is the deck's clearest strength: nine hand traps plus about fourteen negation-text cards give a dense response suite, and the chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand going second is about 0.81. The Extra Deck spreads across 14 distinct cards from five archetypes and off-engine picks (HERO, Predaplant, Magistus, Mudragon, Charmer), so it lacks redundancy and lowers the efficiency score. The score is built from consistency, interaction and resilience on the system, not from an average of card scores, and the popularity of Artmage or its usage stats did not add points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 72, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 51. Modifiers: Engine conflict across Extra Deck (-4); No side deck / no post-side plan (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional/null); 0.80*60.6 + 0.20*50.7 - 6 = 52.6 -> 53

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

• Dense hand-trap and negation suite: 9 hand traps and about 14 negation-text cards
• High searcher density (17 searcher-text cards) gives about 0.95 odds of a searcher in a 5-card hand
• Legal in Master Duel with Maxx C and Super Polymerization at their legal copy limits

Weaknesses

• Extra Deck spans five archetypes at one copy each, so there is little redundancy
• 38 of 40 main copies are off the exact Artmage name, so the engine relies on Power Patron overlap
• No side deck, so no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Pendulum scale setup from Nervedo/Vidolium/Junoldo: one lost pendulum leaves the big boards hard to reach
• Single-copy Fusion/Xyz enablers in the Extra Deck, each needing specific materials

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Legal, 40 main / 15 extra / 0 side inside size rules (master-duel); Maxx C at 1 of 1 legal copy (Limited); Super Polymerization at 2 of 2 (Semi-Limited); Side deck absent (side_count 0)
• Observed: Copy histogram: 11 singletons, 7 doubles, 5 triples in the Main Deck; Exact-name archetype purity 30.9%; Power Patron is a shared sub-engine (9 cards)
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher-text card in 5) ≈ 0.95 and P(at least one hand trap in 6 going second) ≈ 0.81 (hypergeometric); Interaction density (9 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards) and going-second strength; Power Patron / Artmage fusion ceiling from card text; Structural score 60.6 from the Combo profile with D13 dropped
• Provisional: Meta Power (null): no dated metagame sample; Tournament reliability is an estimate (no tournament link); Matchup fit not scored
• Data gaps: No recorded combos: combo ceiling, median and floor are text-only inference No side deck: post-side scores are structural only No tournament link and no dated metagame sample; Meta Power is provisional Usage-statistics bug: the in_this_deck check appears to ignore the Extra Deck. Every entry marked in_this_deck:false (Nerva, S:P Little Knight, Predaplant, Mudragon, Junora, Varudras, Diactorus, Purification, Charmer, Beyond the Pendulum) is an Extra Deck card that is present in cards[]. The missing_core list is therefore an artifact and was not used to penalise the deck No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup or brick/starter rates