Artmage Deck #770347 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Artmage boss monsters (Nerva, Diactorus, Non-Finito, Finmel) from the Extra Deck, supported by Power Patron Pendulum and Link threats such as Vidolium (5000 ATK at level 12).; Link and Synchro board presence (W:P Fancy Ball, Junora, Charmer Quartet) that negates and pressures the opponent's board.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Pendulum Treasure, Artmage Power Patron, Artmage Litera or Academic Acropolis) and use Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis or Medius the Pure to put a Fusion Summon into the Extra Deck boss, keeping Ash Blossom or Maxx "C" for the opponent's first interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Maxx "C" as hand traps for the opponent's first activation, then rebuild through Medius and Artmage Litera from the GY and Pendulum zones, with Artmage Pact or Impasto as the protective layer.
• Recovery: Recycle the GY through Medius the Pure (GY shuffle-summon), Theorealize Past Lull and Artmage Litera, then re-search with Artmage cards; Junoldo and Nervedo add Pendulum-zone pressure when the board is cleared.
• After siding: No side deck is run (0 side cards), so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adapt to a matchup beyond its main deck.

Why it scores here

The score comes from the system: a 20-card searcher density (P of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand ≈ 0.97) and a dense Artmage core give the deck a reliable route into Fusion, Link and Pendulum threats, and the extra deck's 8 Fusion, 5 Link, 1 Synchro and 1 Xyz options give several ways to convert. Interaction is spread across Ash Blossom, Maxx "C", Impasto, Pact, Finmel and Nervedo's negation text, which keeps the engine alive through a single interruption, though the 4 hand traps only produce a ≈0.48 chance of one going second. Combo ceiling and median are not measurable here because no recorded boards exist, so both are Inferred from card text. Structural Midrange weighting gives 61, and the Final score of 58 is pulled down by an empty side deck and a loosely cohesive engine (only 18 of 41 cards carry the exact Artmage name). Popularity was not credited: no tournament link exists, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 63, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: side_deck_empty (-2); engine_conflicts_cross_archetype (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 61.4 → 0.80*61.4 + 0.20*58 = 60.7, then modifiers −3 → 57.7 → 58

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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 density (20 cards) makes the engine reliably accessible.
• Extra Deck covers Fusion, Link, Synchro and Xyz, giving several conversion routes.
• Negation and removal text across main and extra (12 and 17 cards) provides layered interaction.
• Legal on master-duel: Maxx "C" 1/1 (Limited) and Super Polymerization 2/2 (Semi-Limited).

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so the list cannot adapt after game one.
• Only 18 of 41 main cards are exact Artmage, so engine coherence depends on cross-archetype support.
• Going-second relies on 4 hand traps, giving roughly a 0.48 chance of one in a 6-card hand.
• Pilot-heavy: multi-step Fusion and Pendulum sequencing raises the error rate.

Critical choke points

• Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis and Artmage Power Patron as the main Fusion enablers.
• Medius the Pure as the Fusion material and GY recursion point.
• Ash Blossom and Maxx "C" as the only hand traps for going second.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 41, Extra 15, Side 0 satisfy master-duel size rules (main 40–60, extra 0–15).; Maxx "C" 1/1 Limited and Super Polymerization 2/2 Semi-Limited are within BanMasterDuel limits.; Card stats and archetype spread come from the export.
• Observed: Usage statistics show Artmage core cards (Ash Blossom, Medius, Power Patron) at high inclusion rates.
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency (≈0.97 searcher, ≈0.99 archetype core) and going-second hand-trap odds (≈0.48).; Structural and interaction read from card text and role tags.; Floor and median output are inferred from text because no combo boards exist.
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample and no tournament link.
• 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 Shade the Obscure archetype field is malformed ('| supports_archetypes Power Patron'); treated as Power Patron-support by text only No guides attached (total_guides 0)