Artmage Deck #768921 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Artmage Fusion/Link board built from Artmage Fusion Monsters, Power Patron Links and Ars Magna Link/Fusion monsters, backed by Artmage Non-Finito and Diactorus (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Power Patron Link and Synchro pressure (Mediclius, Junora, Stardust Warrior, Vidolium) once a Power Patron is on the field (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Power Patron or Artmage starter (Nervedo, Artmage Power Patron, Artmage Academic Acropolis, Varnish) and use Artmage Litera / Finmel / Graflare to extend into a Fusion or Link line (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Solemn Warning, Solemn Judgment, Ghost Ogre, Kuriboh and Droll to stop the opponent's first Summon or search, then rebuild from the hand (Inferred)
• Recovery: Artmage Impasto, Artmage Pact and the Ars Magna cards re-summon or search Artmage cards from GY/banish; Theorealize Past Lull and Medius recur (Inferred from text)
• After siding: None: the Side Deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan (Verified: Side Deck size 0)

Why it scores here

This is an Illegal OCG list, so it does not receive a normal contextual score: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run 3 times against a limit of 2, and the score is capped low and labelled theoretical/structural-only. The engine is accessible, with 28 archetype-core copies giving P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.97 (Inferred), but only 20 of 56 Main Deck cards carry the exact Artmage name, and 6 Mulcharmy copies need an empty field, which conflicts with Artmage's board-building. Interaction is dense (9 hand traps, 19 negation-text cards, 30 removal-text cards), which supports the going-second and resilience reads. With no recorded boards, the combo ceiling and median are text-only inference, and the empty Side Deck removes any post-side plan. The score comes from consistency, interaction and Extra Deck coverage on the system; it does not come from averaging card scores or from the archetype's popularity.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox weighting not blended into the table. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-5); engine conflict (-4); weak or absent post-side plan (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); modifiers -12 then Illegal cap to 40 (theoretical only)

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

• Archetype core is 28 copies, so the engine is almost always present in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred)
• Dense interaction: 9 hand traps plus Solemn Warning, Solemn Judgment and Ash Blossom (Verified from role tags)
• Extra Deck covers Fusion, Synchro, Link and Xyz engines (Verified from composition)

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring run 3 times against a limit of 2 (Verified)
• Low exact-name purity (28.2%) and scattered sub-archetypes (Verified)
• Mulcharmy x6 and Pot of Sloth are weak in the Artmage engine (Inferred)
• Empty Side Deck (Verified)

Critical choke points

• Fusion starters such as Artmage Power Patron and Nervedo (Inferred)
• A single Ash Blossom copy after the illegal 3rd copy is removed (Verified)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 56 cards and Extra Deck 15 cards are within size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring run 3 times, over the OCG Semi-Limited limit of 2; Side Deck is empty; Archetype core has 28 copies in the deck
• Observed: Exact-name Artmage purity is 28.2%; Sub-archetype spread: Artmage 20, Power Patron 7, Mulcharmy 6, Ars Magna 5
• Inferred: Starter reliability 0.974 from hypergeometric odds; Interaction quality and going-second read from card text; Fusion and Link line ceiling from card text (no recorded boards); Mulcharmy conflict with the Artmage engine
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup coverage (no tournament data); Tournament Reliability estimate
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot records absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Side Deck is empty, so post-side is unmeasured