Medius Deck #770456 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, 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: Extra Deck boss monsters (Vidolium 5000 ATK, Mediclius and Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord, Junora, Elfnote June Pride) built through Elfnote, Power Patron and Ars Magna chains; Ars Magna Link monster triple-ATK and multi-attack turns from banished Ars Magna effects
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Elfnote or Medius starters plus a searcher, build a Link or Synchro board, and hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler or Droll against the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand-trap density (14 cards) to negate the opponent's starter and then rebuild through Medius or Theorealize recursion
• Recovery: Recover through banish-and-revive effects (Ars Magna, Theorealize, Medius GY effect) and searchers that refill the hand after a disruption
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This 55-card Main Deck spreads across four related sub-archetypes (Elfnote, Power Patron, Ars Magna, Medius/Theorealize), so it reaches its boss monsters through several overlapping routes rather than one fixed combo. Its strongest structural feature is interaction: 14 hand traps and about 16 tech cards give it several ways to answer the opponent's first play, which lifts the end-board interaction and resilience scores. Its weaknesses are the Forbidden and over-limit cards: four Forbidden cards and four over-limit cards mean the list is not legal in TCG, so the score is capped and reported as theoretical only. No combo recordings, usage statistics, tournament link or Side Deck exist, so the combo scores are text-based inferences and the side-deck score is low. Popularity and archetype share were not used as points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Control secondary (approximately 80/20; weights taken from the Midrange profile). Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 54, Going Second ≈ 57, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12); illegal_cap (-10). Final formula: Illegal deck: theoretical only. 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 52, plus banlist modifier (-12) = 40, capped at 30 for Illegal status.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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 interaction: 14 hand traps plus several negation and removal spells
• Multiple boss routes (Synchro, Link, Fusion, Xyz) and redundant Power Patron and Elfnote chains
• Strong searcher density (20 searcher-text cards) makes the hand more likely to contain a live line

Weaknesses

• Illegal in TCG: four Forbidden cards and three cards over their copy limits
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Low archetype purity (4.3% exact name), so engine coherence depends on cross-archetype support
• No combo recordings or tournament data to confirm the plan

Critical choke points

• Elfnote Lucina, Ash Blossom and Droll all need to be legal copies: the list must be cut before it is playable
• Central Main Monster Zone dependency for Elfnote and Medius effects

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is illegal in TCG: four Forbidden cards and three copy-limit violations; Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts are within size rules; Composition: 14 hand traps, 20 searchers, 14 negation texts, 28 removal texts; Archetype purity 4.3%; 67 off-archetype copies across 12 sub-archetype names
• Inferred: Starter access 0.25 (3-copy) and searcher access 0.91 from the hypergeometric draw table; Interaction quality and resilience from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated meta sample exists; Matchup fit is provisional without a tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No archetype usage statistics: core and meta-standard comparison unavailable No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups or brick rate No Side Deck: post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample