Medius Deck #770468 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Mediclius, Junora, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord, Elfnote Seraphim Strelitzia) backed by Power Patron and Elfnote board pressure; Vidolium at 5000 ATK as a pendulum-side finisher; Ars Magna and Theorealize recursion into repeated Synchro/Link summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on an Elfnote or Medius starter, search or Special Summon a second Elfnote/Power Patron through Regina, Medius or Junoldo, then Synchro or Link into a board backed by hand traps for the opponent's first answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to deploy hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Infinite Impermanence) against the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Medius and Theorealize recursion
• Recovery: Recover from a single answer through GY-based summons (Medius from GY, Theorealize Past Lull, Ars Magna searchers) and Elfnote Regina's hand-to-field special summon
• After siding: Not evaluable: the side deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in TCG: three Forbidden cards (Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon, Elfnote Tinia, F.A. Dawn Dragster) and three over-limit cards (Elfnote Lucina at 3 copies vs 1, Ash Blossom at 3 vs 2, Dominus Impulse at 3 vs 2) mean the normal Final Contextual score does not apply, so the score is capped at 20 and labelled structural-only. Structurally the system opens reliably: P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.91, and about 0.86 of going-second 6-card hands hold a hand trap, which supports the resilience and going-second reads. Convertion is the weak point: there are no recorded boards, so combo ceiling and floor are text-only inferences, and 69 of 72 main-deck copies sit outside the exact Medius name, which spreads the engine across sub-archetypes. The score comes from consistency, interaction density and a Structural value of about 57 on the system, not from the popularity of Medius or from averaging card scores. The side deck is empty, which caps post-side adaptability.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: balanced. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); copy_limit_violation (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: uncapped 0.80*57 + 0.20*50 = 55.6, then modifiers -12 gives 43.6; Illegal cap sets Final = 20 (structural-only, no normal Final Contextual score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · 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 and starter redundancy (about 0.91 hand-level hit rate)
• Strong going-second hand-trap package (about 0.86 hit rate)
• Full Extra Deck with Synchro, Link and Xyz options

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: three Forbidden cards and three over-limit cards
• Empty side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Low archetype purity (4.2% exact name), so the engine is spread across sub-archetypes

Critical choke points

• Forbidden Elfnote Tinia and F.A. Dawn Dragster remove key Elfnote and F.A. Synchro routes
• Single-copy Extra Deck boss routes depend on Medius and Power Patron GY recursion

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status and violation list (Forbidden/Limited/Semi-Limited copy limits); Main 57, Extra 15, Side 0 counts; Archetype purity 4.2%; Extra Deck breakdown 9 Synchro, 4 Link, 1 Xyz, 1 Fusion
• Inferred: P(>=1 searcher in 5-card hand) = 0.91; Hand-trap P(>=1 in 6-card going-second hand) = 0.8554; Interaction density from card text (14 negation, 22 removal); Structural estimate 57
• Provisional: Format fit and meta power (no dated metagame sample); Combo ceiling and floor (text-only, no recorded boards)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no archetype usage statistics, so core and meta-standard comparison is unavailable no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied side deck is empty, so post-side scoring is unsupported