Artmage Deck #767259 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 34/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon boards built from Power Patron, Maliss, Ars Magna and Code Talker Link Monsters that end with a 2300-3000 ATK attacker (Mediclius, Maliss Hearts Crypter, Firewall Dragon, Maliss Red Ransom); Mulcharmy draw-engine pressure and Medius/Theorealize searches that build toward a Link board
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening starter (Maliss or Medius/Mulcharmy searcher) to search a second engine piece, then Link Summon into a board; only partly reliable because the engines are not coherent with each other
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 2-3 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru, Evenly Matched) to interrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Medius and the Extra Deck
• Recovery: Searchers (15 searcher-text cards) and recursion through GY-revival monsters (Medius, Maliss Dormouse, Ars Magna) to refill hand after interaction
• After siding: Not available: the deck runs zero side-deck cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its archetype-core group (14 copies) gives a roughly 78% chance of at least one starter in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), but the starters belong to several unrelated sub-archetypes (Maliss, Mulcharmy, Ars Magna, Medius, @Ignister, Bystial, Code Talker, Cyclone, Harpie), and exact-name archetype purity is 0%. That fragmentation caps consistency and brick resistance. Interaction is a real strength: 12 hand traps, 31 removal-text cards and 3 negations give good end-board and going-second coverage (Inferred from text). Offensive closing power comes from the Extra Deck's 14 Link monsters, which is solid. Two things pull the score down sharply: the list is illegal (3 copies of a Semi-Limited card), and it has no side deck. Popularity was not credited: the archetype usage stats confirm the list is real, not that it is strong. No combo boards were recorded, so the ceiling and floor are text-only inference, and the score is capped low under the illegal-deck rule.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 48.2, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (-5); Engine conflict (-4); No side deck (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 0.80*48.2 + 0.20*35 = 45.6, then modifiers -12 (total), rounded to 34; illegal deck capped low

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.22 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High interaction density: 12 hand traps, 31 removal-text cards and 3 negations
• Strong Extra Deck closing power with 14 Link monsters reaching 2300-3000 ATK
• Searchers and recursion (15 searcher-text cards, Medius and Theorealize) support recovery

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run 3 times against a limit of 2
• Fragmented engines: exact archetype purity 0%, 70 off-archetype copies
• No side deck, so there is no post-side plan
• Many conditional tech and hand-trap cards raise brick risk

Critical choke points

• Starters from the archetype core (14 copies across several sub-archetypes) are needed to start most lines
• The Extra Deck link route depends on specific Link monsters (Mediclius, Firewall Dragon, Maliss Hearts Crypter), and there is no recorded board data to show how often they connect

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 55 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs legal 2 (Semi-Limited); Card text and stats for all 55 main and 15 extra cards (from evidence cards array); Archetype composition: exact purity 0%, 70 off-archetype copies, 14 Link monsters, 1 Xyz
• Observed: Archetype usage statistics show the core cards (for example Mulcharmy Fuwalos 85%, Medius the Pure 60%) and confirm the list is real
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability 0.78 and going-second hand-trap probability 0.79 (hypergeometric); Interaction density and going-second strength from role tags and card text; Consistency, brick and recovery reads from engine fragmentation
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13), because no dated metagame sample or tournament link is supplied
• Data gaps: No recorded combo boards (total_combos 0): combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference Usage statistics mark Purification Power Patron, Mediclius and S:P Little Knight as in_this_deck=false although they appear in the Extra Deck list; the stat matcher appears to skip Extra Deck cards, so core-coverage figures are understated No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate, going-first/second or matchup telemetry exists in YGOVN Deck title is null; no guides attached Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample