Artmage Deck #770371 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 48/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Artmage and Power Patron boss monsters from the Extra Deck (Nerva, Diactorus, Non-Finito, Varudras) after Medius and Power Patron searches set up material; Pendulum Power Patron monsters (Vidolium, Nervedo) and Link/Synchro boards from Extra Deck material
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Medius the Pure or Artmage Power Patron, search Artmage/Power Patron support with Vandalism, Varnish, Acropolis or Medius, then Fusion Summon a boss through Super Polymerization or the Fusion monsters' own summon effects
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C, Droll and Forbidden Droplet to answer the opponent's first summon, then convert the surviving board into a Fusion boss
• Recovery: Recover Medius and Artmage Litera from the GY (both have GY-to-hand or GY-summon text) and rebuild the Artmage engine from the Deck
• After siding: No side deck is supplied (side_count 0); no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens into searches and summons because Medius the Pure, Artmage Power Patron and Artmage Litera, plus about 16 searcher-text cards, make a starter likely in a 5-card opening hand (P(at least one searcher) ~0.94, Inferred). Its ceiling comes from Fusion bosses that need Artmage material, and the deck has several negation and removal effects to slow an opponent before those bosses land. The score is held down by weak engine coherence: only 15 of 40 main copies are exact-name Artmage (27.3% purity), with Power Patron, Branded, Mulcharmy, DoomZ, Ecclesia, Elfnote and Predaplant cards mixed in, and the two Mulcharmy monsters conflict with a Fusion-heavy plan. No recorded boards exist, so floor, median and ceiling are text-based inference, and the deck has no side deck and no tournament data. Archetype popularity earned no points, and the score is built on the system, not by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 57, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 46. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-4); banlist exposure (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional): 0.80*56 + 0.20*46 = 54.0, then modifiers -6 = 48

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · 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 text (16 cards) gives a high chance of a live search on turn one
• Interaction is layered: hand traps, quick-play negates, Crossout and Droplet
• Boss monsters reach 3000+ ATK, and the Extra Deck covers several summon methods

Weaknesses

• Only 15 of 40 main copies are exact-name Artmage, so the engine is diluted
• Mulcharmy monsters conflict with a Fusion-heavy plan
• No side deck, no recorded combos and no tournament data

Critical choke points

• Medius the Pure and Artmage Power Patron (2 copies each) are the main going-first starters, with P(at least one Medius in 5) ~0.24
• Multiple Limited and Semi-Limited copies sit at the legal maximum, so a banlist change would break key lines

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal size: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; within master-duel bounds; All Limited and Semi-Limited copies are within legal_copies; Exact-name purity 15 of 40 main copies (27.3%)
• Observed: Usage stats: Artmage Pact, Impasto, Ash Blossom and Maxx C are core cards in this archetype
• Inferred: Starter probabilities and searcher density; Interaction density from card text; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta power (null, no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied (total_combos 0): combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No side deck (side_count 0): D12 is Provisional usage_statistics in_this_deck flags contradict the cards array: Nerva, S:P Little Knight, Predaplant Dragostapelia, Junora, Varudras, Mudragon, Artmage Diactorus, Beyond the Pendulum and Charmer Quartet are listed as in_this_deck false yet appear in the Extra Deck list, so core_present_pct 56 is unreliable and was not used Purification Power Patron and Theorealize Past Lull (usage core, in_this_deck false) are absent from both lists No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for this deck