Ars Magna Deck #766726 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 32/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Power Patron Link and Synchro boards built through Elfnote and Ars Magna searches, pressured by high-ATK Synchro and Link monsters; Stardust and Chaos Angel synchro pressure with board-clearing removal support
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Elfnote Power Patron, Elfnote Regina, or Mulcharmy draw engines, search an Ars Magna or Elfnote follow-up, then extend into a Synchro or Link summon. Hand traps are held for the opponent's first activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird and Nibiru to interrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draws and Medius recursion.
• Recovery: Recover from interruption through Mulcharmy draw engines, Theorealize Past Lull recursion, and Ars Magna monsters banished from the hand for searches.
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in TCG as submitted: six Forbidden cards and three copy-limit overages mean it cannot be played as built, so it is capped and scored as a theoretical, structural-only read. Structurally it has real engine access, since the Elfnote, Power Patron and Ars Magna core appears in about 95% of opening 5-card hands by the archetype core proxy, and the hand traps (11 copies, about 76% of going-second hands contain one) give it strong interaction on the opponent's first turn. Its weakness is the system itself: only 5 of 77 cards carry the exact Ars Magna name, and the list mixes Elfnote, Mulcharmy, Medius, Bystial, Stardust and Chaos sub-archetypes, so the engines are not fully coherent and bricks are likely. No boards, matchup results or dated meta exist, so the score comes from consistency, interaction and the absence of a side deck, not from averaging card scores or from the archetype's popularity.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 46, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(46) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 43.8; Meta provisional; banlist exposure modifier -12 (illegal cap) => 31.8, rounded to 32

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

• Archetype core and searcher text give high P(at least one starter in opening hand)
• 11 hand traps and layered negation/removal give interaction on both turns
• Strong high-ATK Synchro and Link finishers (Vidolium, Chaos Angel, Mediclius)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: six Forbidden cards and three copy-limit overages
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Low exact-name archetype purity (7.1%) and mixed sub-archetype engines reduce coherence
• No recorded combo boards to verify floor or ceiling

Critical choke points

• Every engine line depends on Elfnote or Power Patron starters, and the removal of Forbidden or over-limit cards breaks the intended line
• Ash Blossom at 3 copies exceeds the legal limit of 2, so a legal list must drop a copy

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: six Forbidden cards and three copy-limit overages in TCG (legality); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 against TCG size rules; Archetype core present in 95.1% of 5-card hands (probabilities); Exact-name archetype purity 7.1% (composition)
• Inferred: Engine access, brick rate, interaction layering, and going-second hand-trap coverage from text and hypergeometric estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated metagame sample)
• 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, going-second, matchup, or brick and starter rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied