Artmage Deck #769738 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Link boards led by Nerva the Power Patron of Creation, Artmage Diactorus, Salamangreat Pyro Phoenix and Hyperinvoked Aeon, built through Medius, Power Patron and Ars Magna recursion; Mulcharmy draw-engine grind over long games, with Artmage Non-Finito and Garura as extra-deck pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Artmage or Power Patron starters (Medius, Finmel, Power Patron, Academic Acropolis), keep 2 to 3 hand traps up for the opponent's first starter, then convert through Super Polymerization or the Artmage Power Patron fusion effect
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 11 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence, Solemn Accusation, Impasto) to stop the first board, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draws and Ars Magna recursion
• Recovery: Banish Ars Magna monsters from hand or GY for recursion (Ars Magna the Finite and the Infinite, the Corruption and the Purification, the Division and the Union), and use Mulcharmy draw effects to refill
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck scores as a system: its Artmage and Power Patron engine opens on a starter roughly 92 percent of the time in a five-card hand (core-group proxy, Inferred), and Medius, Finmel and Power Patron chain into multiple independent lines. Eleven hand traps plus Solemn Accusation, Impasto and the Pendulum negate give it strong interaction density across both turn orders, and Mulcharmy plus Ars Magna recursion keep it supplied after disruption. Closing power comes from 2800 to 3800 ATK extra-deck boards (Diactorus, Pyro Phoenix, Hyperinvoked Aeon, Nerva), but the list is spread across roughly fifteen archetypes (exact-name purity 21 percent), it runs no side deck, and its combo ceiling and median are unmeasured because no recorded boards exist. The score comes from consistency, interaction and resilience on the system, not from Artmage being a popular archetype, and not from averaging the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Off-archetype dispersion (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*63.4 + 0.20*56 - 5 = 57

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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

• Multiple independent starters (Medius, Finmel, Power Patron, Academic Acropolis, Mulcharmy) reduce single-card dependence
• Eleven hand traps plus Solemn, Impasto and Pendulum negation give layered interaction on both turn orders
• Mulcharmy and Ars Magna recursion regenerate cards after disruption
• High-ATK extra-deck closers (Hyperinvoked Aeon 3800, Nerva 3300, Diactorus 2800, Pyro Phoenix 2800)

Weaknesses

• Exact-name archetype purity is 21 percent; the list mixes Artmage, Ars Magna, Mulcharmy, Medius, Power Patron and off-archetype cards such as Amazement, Salamangreat, Invoked and Elemental HERO
• Hand traps are dead in hands without a live board, and the 56-card main deck is 21 slots of hand traps and tech
• No side deck (side_count 0) and no post-side plan
• Dense timing and fusion or link sequencing raises pilot error rate

Critical choke points

• Artmage or Power Patron starter in hand (P 0.915 proxy)
• Access to Super Polymerization (2 copies) or the Artmage Power Patron fusion effect for extra-deck summons

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal OCG list: 56 main, 15 extra, 0 side, no violations; Copy counts within banlist limits (Maxx C 1/1 Limited, Droll and Lock Bird 1/1 Limited, Ash Blossom 2/2 and Super Polymerization 2/2 Semi-Limited); Card stats and text for Hyperinvoked Aeon, Nerva, Diactorus, Pyro Phoenix, Medius and Mulcharmy; Archetype purity 21.1 percent and archetype spread from composition; Usage stats: 12 of 25 core cards present (48 percent)
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.915 from core-group proxy; Going-second hand-trap coverage 0.749; Interaction density across 11 hand traps and 18 negation texts; Consistency, recursion and closing estimates from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup coverage and format fit (D13 neutral 50); Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Data inconsistency: usage_statistics marks Purification Power Patron, Nerva and Mediclius as in_this_deck false, but the cards list runs them in the Extra Deck (2, 1 and 2 copies); the usage in_this_deck flag was not trusted for the core-coverage figure No side deck registered, so side-deck adaptability is unmeasured