Ars Magna Deck #770484 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±5 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Unverified: no combo boards or guides; the Elfnote and Ars Magna Special Summon chain plus Power Patron and Medius link/synchro pressure is the inferred route; Synchro and Link beatdown via Chaos Angel, Psychic End Punisher, Infernal Strike Fighter and Mediclius (inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Elfnote hand-summon starter (Regina or Lucina), search an Elfnote, and hold hand traps (Ash, Droll, Effect Veiler, Skull Meister) for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Nibiru, Droll, Skull Meister) to break the opponent's first board, then reboot through Elfnote or Ars Magna searchers
• Recovery: Searchers (18 copies of searcher text) and Theorealize Past Lull / Medius recursion rebuild the hand; recovery is inferred, not recorded
• After siding: No side deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system on consistency, interaction and closing power, not as an average of card scores. Its Elfnote core (21 copies, P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) about 0.92) gives it a reliable starter, and 16 hand traps plus Solemn and Ash-style negation give it strong interaction density (Inferred). The main deck is weakly built around one engine: exact archetype purity is only 7%, and the spread across Elfnote, Power Patron, Medius, Mulcharmy and generic cards suggests a loosely connected pile rather than a single line. The list is Illegal: six Forbidden cards and three over-limit Limited or Semi-Limited cards, plus no side deck, cap the score low and make this a theoretical, structural-only read. Popularity or archetype usage (about 60% of core cards present) confirms the list is real but does not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-10); no_side_deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal deck: theoretical cap applied. Pre-cap 0.80*Structural(53.4) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-12) = 39.8, capped to 20. Meta provisional.

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 Elfnote core gives a high chance to open a live starter (Inferred)
• Layered interaction: 16 hand traps, Solemn Judgment, Solemn Warning, Ash, Droll (Inferred)
• High closing stats in Extra Deck: Vidolium, Chaos Angel, Psychic End Punisher (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in TCG: six Forbidden cards and over-limit Limited/Semi-Limited cards (Verified)
• Low exact archetype purity (7%) and a scattered engine across Elfnote, Power Patron, Medius, Mulcharmy and generic cards (Verified composition)
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation (Verified)
• No combo data, so the ceiling and median are text-only (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Elfnote starter on T1 (Regina/Lucina), which is limited to 1 copy of Lucina in format
• Forbidden Crossout Designator / Called by the Grave removal lines cannot be played

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status and six Forbidden cards in the main deck; Copy limits: Lucina 1 legal vs 3 run, Droll 1 vs 2, Ash 2 vs 3; Zero side-deck cards; Archetype purity 7%; 56 main and 15 Extra counts within size rules
• Inferred: Starter access: P(>=1 Elfnote core in 5-card hand) about 0.92; Interaction density from 16 hand traps and card text; Midrange primary strategy from hand-trap and searcher density
• Provisional: Meta power (null); Matchup fit and tournament reliability (no dated meta, no tournament link)
• 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 or matchup telemetry in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional until a dated metagame sample is supplied