Artmage Deck #766337 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Fusion/Link/Synchro, Pendulum
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion/Synchro/Link boss pressure (Nerva the Power Patron of Creation 3300 ATK, Junora 3100 ATK, Vidolium 5000 ATK via Pendulum) reached through the Artmage/Power Patron chain; Negation-backed board control (Diactorus, Varudras, Predaplant Dragostapelia, Junora) with Azamina/Garura battle-damage doubling
• Turn 1 (going first): Artmage Vandalism or Academic Acropolis to reach Medius the Pure, then Artmage Power Patron or Finmel Fusion Summon toward Nerva or Diactorus; Pendulum Treasure to add a Pendulum monster to the Extra Deck
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Ghost Ogre and Impasto to break the opponent's board, then Special Summon Medius or use Artmage Pact to re-establish a boss
• Recovery: Medius the Pure GY recursion (shuffle a monster to Special Summon it, banished when it leaves) and Artmage Litera adding an Artmage from the GY
• After siding: No side deck is registered (0 cards), so the evidence supports no post-side plan; adaptation is limited to in-match choices

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its engine through several searchers (19 searcher-text cards; P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.97 for the group) and two Medius the Pure copies, which are the main Artmage starter line. Its Extra Deck converts that line into boss monsters, and the 12 negation-text cards and 7 hand traps give it a layered interaction package. The score comes from consistency, interaction density, and going-second disruption on the system, not from Artmage being a popular archetype (usage stats only confirm the list is standard). No recorded boards exist, so the median and floor are scored conservatively and not from any average of card scores. Missing side deck, absent tournament data and high pilot complexity hold the score down.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.7 Combo / 0.3 Midrange. Structural ≈ 60.6, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: Engine conflicts (Pendulum, Fusion and Synchro split) (-2); Single-card dependence on Medius the Pure (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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 searcher and enabler package (19 searcher-text cards) gives high opening-hand engine access
• Layered interaction: 7 hand traps and 12 negation-text cards across both turn orders
• Extra Deck supplies multiple boss options (Nerva, Diactorus, Varudras, Junora, Vidolium)

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Pendulum, Fusion and Power Patron requirements create conflicting engine pieces and dead-draw risk
• High pilot complexity from multi-step Fusion and Pendulum sequencing

Critical choke points

• Medius the Pure (2 copies) as the main Artmage starter
• Fusion Summon enablers (Artmage Power Patron, Finmel) needed to reach Nerva or Diactorus

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under BanMasterDuel: Maxx C 1/1 Limited, Droll & Lock Bird 2/2 Semi-Limited, Super Polymerization 2/2 Semi-Limited; Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within size rules; Exact-name archetype purity 32.7%
• Inferred: Starter access and consistency from hypergeometric draw probabilities; Interaction density from card text flags (12 negation, 17 removal); Going-second disruption from 7 hand traps; Closing power from listed ATK values and conditional text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13); Side-deck adaptability (D12) given no side deck; Median output (D4) with no recorded boards
• 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 for going-first/second, matchup, or brick/starter rates No side deck registered; post-side plan cannot be evaluated Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample archetype_spread contains malformed entries (e.g. '| supports_archetypes Power Patron', '"C"'); treated as data artifacts and not used as evidence