Ars Magna Deck #770452 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Power Patron Link and Synchro boards (Vidolium 5000 ATK pendulum, Junora, Mediclius) built through Ars Magna and Elfnote summon chains; Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord and Psychic End Punisher as late-game extra-deck bodies (Photon Lord is not in the list; Psychic End Punisher is not in the list either, so only the Synchro and Link bodies listed in the Extra Deck count)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Elfnote Regina or Power Patron search, Normal Summon into a Synchro or Link line through Ars Magna searchers; Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre hold up a single disruption
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Droll and Lock Bird) answer the opponent's first summon; Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws off opposing summons to rebuild
• Recovery: Ars Magna Finite and Division banish from hand to search or Special Summon an Ars Magna monster from the GY or banishment
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 side cards, so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck's Ars Magna and Elfnote engine is internally coherent: 28 archetype-core copies give roughly 97.7 percent (Inferred, proxy) chance of at least one core card in the opening five, and 20 searcher-text cards give about 91 percent. Interaction is dense, with 14 negation-text cards, 14 hand traps and 28 removal-text cards, which earns credit for going-second resilience (about 84 percent chance of a hand trap in the opening six, Inferred). Output is unmeasured: no combos were supplied, so the ceiling and median scores are text-only and capped at mid-range. Popularity did not earn points: archetype core usage was used only to check that the list is real, and card scores were not averaged. The deck is Illegal (four Forbidden cards and three copy-limit overages), so the final score is capped at 20 and the evaluation is structural only, with 0 side cards and no meta data.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 49.6, minus context modifiers (-8) = 41.6, capped at 20 for an Illegal list (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Coherent Ars Magna and Elfnote engine with many searchers
• Dense interaction: negation, hand traps and removal text
• Real going-second hand-trap coverage

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Forbidden cards and copy-limit overages
• Only 8.6 percent exact-name archetype purity; 64 off-archetype copies
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• No combo data, so the ceiling and median cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• Extra Deck boss cards that are Forbidden or Limited (Crystal Wing, F.A. Dawn Dragster)
• Single-copy Power Patron Link starters
• Lack of a side deck for best-of-3 play

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; within TCG size limits; Four Forbidden cards and three copy-limit overages (Illegal status); Archetype purity 8.6 percent; 64 off-archetype copies; Extra Deck breakdown: 9 Synchro, 4 Link, 1 Xyz, 1 Fusion
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand odds for core and searcher groups; Interaction density from card-text hints; Going-second hand-trap coverage; Structural scores on all 14 dimensions
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13); Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null No side deck (0 cards)