Artmage Deck #770604 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 38/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Power Patron / Artmage Fusion and Link boards (Nerva the Power Patron of Creation 3300/3300, Artmage Non-Finito, Vidolium the Unstable 5000 ATK, Mediclius) once the engine is online; Artmage Diactorus and Ars Magna/Theorealize Medius recursion into Synchro and Link boards
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Power Patron, Artmage, or Medius starter (Artmage Power Patron, Medius the Pure, Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis, Pendulum Treasure) and convert it into a Fusion or Link board; Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence hold up interaction (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Nibiru, Droll & Lock Bird) and Artmage Impasto/Pact to stop the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Medius and Power Patron searchers (Inferred)
• Recovery: Rebuild from the GY through Theorealize Past Lull, Mulcharmy Fuwalos draw, and Medius GY revival, which has many fallback starters (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adjust between games (Verified: side_count 0)

Why it scores here

The score comes from the deck as a system, not from averaging its cards. Its strongest reliable element is interaction density: 12 hand traps and 31 removal or negation texts give it a broad, layered answer set, and the core starter group (21 copies of Power Patron/Artmage searchers) has an estimated 0.89 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred). The engine is less coherent: exact-name Artmage purity is only 20% and the list spreads across roughly 20 sub-archetypes, so consistency and output are only moderate. There is no combo evidence, no tournament data, and no side deck, so floor, median and ceiling are text-based estimates. The deck is also Illegal: Ash Blossom and The Fallen & The Virtuous are each run 3 times against a limit of 2, so it is capped and scored as structural-only. Popularity was not credited and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional), then Illegal copy-limit cap of -12: 0.80*51.15 + 0.20*45 - 12 = 37.9

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · 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: 12 hand traps and 31 removal-text cards
• Large core searcher group (21 copies) gives high starter access
• Extra Deck covers Fusion, Link, Synchro and Xyz with high-ATK boards

Weaknesses

• Illegal: two cards over the TCG copy limit
• Engine is split across about 20 sub-archetypes; exact Artmage purity 20%
• No side deck
• No combo or tournament evidence to confirm the output

Critical choke points

• Artmage Power Patron / Medius starter in hand: most lines route through them
• Extra Deck Fusion material (Artmage Non-Finito, Diactorus, Nerva) must be present for board conversion

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0; within size rules; Two copy-limit violations (Ash Blossom, The Fallen & The Virtuous); Card text and stats for all 60+15 cards; Usage stats: Artmage Graflare, Impasto, Pact, Varnish, Vandalism core present
• Inferred: Starter access 0.89 and draw odds; Interaction density and hand-trap value; Going-first/second plans; Brick and recovery estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power; D13 matchup fit
• Data gaps: No combos supplied (combos_evidence total_combos = 0): floor, median and ceiling are text-only No tournament link: meta-share and pilot record absent No side deck: D12 unscored by performance usage_statistics marks several Extra Deck core cards (Artmage Non-Finito, Diactorus, Nerva, Junora, Purification Power Patron, Beyond the Pendulum, S:P Little Knight) as in_this_deck=false even though the cards list shows them in the Extra Deck with copies; the check appears to cover only the Main Deck, so the core-presence figures are unreliable No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchups, or brick/starter rates Meta Power is Provisional