Artmage Deck #769288 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Elfnote and Power Patron engine chains into Extra Deck boards such as Elfnote June Pride, Elfnote Seraphim Strelitzia and Mediclius the Extraordinary Power Patron (Inferred from card text); Synchro and Link beatdown with Psychic End Punisher, Infernal Strike Fighter and Pentestag as flexible bodies (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Elfnote or Power Patron starters, search through Medius, Power Patron and Elfnote monsters, and set up a Synchro or Link board (Inferred; no combo data)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Ghost Ogre, Skull Meister, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird) to disrupt the opponent's summons, then rebuild through the Elfnote engine (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover from GY through Medius, Theorealize Past Lull and Artmage Diactorus-style summons; the deck's recursion relies on Power Patron and Elfnote GY effects (Inferred from text)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists in this list (Verified: side_count 0)

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in OCG: three cards exceed their copy limits and four cards are Forbidden, so it is scored on structure only and capped low. Its consistency reads from the Elfnote and Power Patron core (about 81% to open at least one core card in a 5-card hand, Inferred from hypergeometric estimates) and from 19 searchers and 19 tech cards that support the engine. Interaction is the strongest area, with 16 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards, which keeps the going-second plan credible (about 89% to see one hand trap in a 6-card hand, Inferred). Combo conversion, median output and closing power could not be measured because no recorded boards exist, so those scores are text-only inferences. The score is driven by the system (consistency, interaction, and resilience weighed against the copy-limit breaches, the empty side deck, and the scattered sub-archetypes) and not by averaging card scores or by Artmage's popularity.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 48.6, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); engine_conflicts_and_bricks (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*48.6 + 0.20*40 ≈ 46.9; modifiers −12 → 34.9; Illegal cap applied → 25 (structural-only, not a normal Final score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.81 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.19 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered interaction: 16 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards
• Strong archetype-core access (≈81% to open at least one core card in hand 5, Inferred)
• Diverse Extra Deck with Synchro, Link, Xyz and Fusion options

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: copy-limit breaches and four Forbidden cards
• Empty side deck leaves no post-side plan
• Very low archetype purity (1.4%) and 69 off-archetype copies make the engine less coherent
• No combo data, so floor, median and ceiling cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Elfnote engine depends on Elfnote Lucina and Elfnote Regina; legal limits force a cut that weakens the core
• Single-copy starters such as Vidolium and Junoldo carry key bridges without redundancy

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: copy-limit violations and Forbidden cards listed in legality; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 (within OCG size rules except the empty side); Card text and banlist status for every listed card; Usage stat: Mulcharmy Fuwalos at 85% inclusion; Ash Blossom at 65% (usage_statistics)
• Inferred: Consistency estimates from hypergeometric draws (81% core access, ≈89% hand trap in hand 6); Engine and primary strategy classification from card text and composition; Combo ceiling and interaction reads from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; Matchup and format-fit scores (D13)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck is empty; no post-side data