Artmage Deck #766149 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• 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, Link, Synchro and Xyz Power Patron / Artmage boards (Nerva, Jupiter, Vidolium, Mediclius, Junora) that overwhelm the opponent with 3000+ ATK bodies after an Artmage starter opens the line; Artmage Non-Finito and Artmage Diactorus value and removal chains off Medius the Pure and Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Artmage Power Patron, Artmage Finmel or Medius-style searchers, use Pendulum Treasure or Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis to reach an Artmage Fusion or Link boss, and hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Typhoon for responses
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll and Lock Bird, Ash Blossom and Nibiru or Mulcharmy hand traps to disrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Artmage Litera or Artmage Graflare special summons
• Recovery: Recover through Artmage Litera and Theorealize Past Lull recursion from the GY and banished Power Patron monsters, with Artmage Varnish -Alteration- and Pendulum Treasure as searchers
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists; this is a structural read only

Why it scores here

The Artmage core (24 copies, about 95% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand) gives the deck a fairly reliable starter, and the Power Patron and Ars Magna boards supply high-ATK closing bodies. Eleven hand traps plus Droll and Ash Blossom give good going-second interaction and layered responses to the opponent's first board. The score is held back by the illegal copy count of Ash Blossom, the complete absence of recorded boards so the floor and median cannot be measured, and the empty side deck. Structural strength was computed from dimension scores on the Combo weight profile, not from averaging card scores, and the deck's archetype popularity was not credited as strength. The final score is capped low because an illegal list does not earn a normal contextual score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal-deck cap applied: unrounded 0.80*59.4 + 0.20*45 - 12 (banlist modifier) = 44.5, capped to 35; Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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

• Core Artmage and Power Patron cards are present at near-full copy counts, giving high starter access
• Eleven hand traps and multiple negation and removal options give layered interaction
• High-ATK Extra Deck closers provide several independent win conditions

Weaknesses

• Ash Blossom is run at 3 copies against a 2-copy limit, so the list is illegal
• Side deck is empty, leaving no post-side adaptation
• Several core Extra Deck cards from the archetype (Nerva, Varudras, Diactorus) are only partially supported in the list

Critical choke points

• Artmage Fusion or Link summon line depends on Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis, Medius and Artmage Finmel being present
• Single Extra Deck Fusion for Artmage Non-Finito and Diactorus is a one-copy dependency

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies exceeds Semi-Limited limit of 2; Main deck 55 cards and Extra deck 15 cards are within TCG size rules; Side deck is empty
• Observed: Droll & Lock Bird included at 94% inclusion across archetype usage stats; Ash Blossom and Mulcharmy core cards at 100% usage
• Inferred: Artmage core gives about 95% at-least-one starter in five cards; Hand-trap probability at least one in six cards is about 0.76; Engine and interaction scores derived from card text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit need a dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent no win-rate telemetry, so going-first and going-second splits are inferred Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck was supplied