Artmage Deck #768524 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Power Patron / Artmage Fusion, Link and Synchro boards (Artmage Non-Finito, Nerva, Diactorus, Junora, Mediclius) converting Medius the Pure and Artmage starters into large attackers and negations; Ars Magna and Theorealize recursion lines that rebuild the board from the GY and banishment
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Artmage Power Patron or Medius the Pure as the starter, search or Special Summon a second Artmage piece, and Fusion or Link Summon toward a boss while holding Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Typhoon as interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Lock Bird, Kuriboh) to slow the opponent's first combo, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draw effects and Theorealize recursion
• Recovery: Recover through Mulcharmy draw effects, Artmage Litera and Ars Magna GY/banish recursion, and Theorealized Medius from a banished or GY state
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be scored; any sideboarding would have to be added first

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reasonably often: the archetype core group has about a 0.96 chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and Mulcharmy, Medius and Power Patron starters give several ways in. Conversion is text-driven only, because no combos were supplied, so the ceiling and median scores rest on card-text reads and are Inferred. Interaction is a real strength, with 7 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards and several floodgate-style Fusion and Link effects. Score is held down by the copy-limit violation, which caps the deck as theoretical or structural-only, and by the absence of a side deck and any recorded boards. Popularity and archetype usage were not credited, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Balanced (default; Combo profile not used because no combos were supplied). Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-3); illegal_deck_cap (-15). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 53, then illegal-deck cap applied: theoretical/structural-only, final 35

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.04 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction: 7 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards
• Several independent starters (Mulcharmy, Medius, Power Patron, Ars Magna)
• Strong Extra Deck boss ceiling (Jupiter 3500 ATK, Nerva 3300 ATK, Diactorus 2800 ATK)
• Good starter access: archetype core group opens at least one card in about 96 percent of hands (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy-limit violation (3 Ash Blossom against a limit of 2)
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Low exact-name archetype purity (20 percent), so the engine is diluted
• No recorded combos or guides, so ceiling and median are text-only

Critical choke points

• Fusion and Link summons all depend on Artmage Medius, Artmage Power Patron and Power Patron monsters being live
• Ash Blossom is the sole counter to the 3-copy problem and has to be fixed before the list is legal

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 counts and OCG size rules; Ash Blossom copy-limit violation (3 vs 2); Banlist statuses for Droll and Lock Bird, Terminus and S:P Little Knight (Limited, 1 copy each, legal); Archetype usage stats (core present 68 percent)
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probabilities; Brick and garnet estimate; Interaction density from card text; Going-first and going-second plan reads
• Provisional: Meta-share and format fit (no dated metagame)
• 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, going-second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck registered, so D12 has no performance data