Train Deck #768523 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Artmage Fusion boards (Medius the Pure into Artmage Diactorus, Non-Finito, Nerva) converting through the Field Spell and Power Patron pressure; Extra Deck beaters and Link/Xyz attackers (Gustav Rocket not run; Secreterion Dragon, Vidolium, Garura) once the board is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Medius and Artmage Vandalism / Academic Acropolis for search density, then a Fusion Summon through Super Polymerization, protected by Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Solemn Warning, Solemn Judgment and Infinite Impermanence to interrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild Artmage Fusion with Medius recursion
• Recovery: Medius and Mulcharmy recursion from the GY, plus Pot of Sloth and searcher text to refill
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The score comes from the system, not from averaging card scores. The list is an Artmage Fusion shell padded with 18 tech and 9 hand traps, and only 2 of 68 off-archetype copies are exact Train cards, so the Train identity is nominal. The main engine (Medius the Pure and Artmage Vandalism, 3 copies each) has roughly a 25% chance per 5-card hand to contain at least one starter, which caps the T1 plan, while searcher text is dense (about 91% for at least one searcher in hand). Interaction is the deck's strongest area: 17 negation-text cards and 9 hand traps give it real going-second answers. No Side Deck and two illegal copy counts (Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization at 3 each) cut the score sharply, so the evaluation is theoretical and structural only. Popularity or archetype share did not earn points, and no combos were recorded, so the ceiling and median come from text reads only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 46, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (-14). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional), then Illegal legality penalty -14 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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 draw text (Medius, Artmage Vandalism, Academic Acropolis, Pot of Sloth)
• Layered going-second interaction: 9 hand traps and 17 negation-text cards
• Wide Extra Deck with Fusion, Link and Xyz options

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization are over the OCG limit
• Archetype incoherence: 2.9% exact Train purity and 68 off-archetype copies
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Low starter density for the Fusion engine (about 25% per 5-card hand)

Critical choke points

• Medius the Pure is the sole route into Artmage Fusion; if it is dead the T1 plan collapses
• Super Polymerization copy limit: the list cannot be played as built in OCG
• No Side Deck means one matchup-specific choke point stays in every game

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a limit of 2 (OCG); Main 55 and Extra 15 are within the OCG size rules; Side is 0 with no Side Deck; Archetype purity 2.9% exact name; Artmage is the dominant sub-archetype (22 copies)
• Observed: Usage data: 2 of the 20 archetype core cards are present (10%)
• Inferred: Starter hypergeometric ≈ 0.25 per 5-card hand (copy-count model); Interaction density and going-second hand-trap rate ≈ 0.68 (text-based read); Dimension scores D1–D14 from text, composition and probability (no combos recorded)
• Provisional: Meta Power is null (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament link or meta share)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck registered