Ars Magna Deck #770605 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: 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: Extra Deck Power Patron / Artmage boss monsters (Vidolium, Nerva, Jupiter, Junora, Mediclius) reached through the Artmage and Power Patron engine (Inferred from card text); Fusion and Link pressure from Artmage Non-Finito, Artmage Diactorus and The Dragon that Devours the Dogma (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a searcher or Artmage starter (Medius, Artmage Power Patron, Theorealize Past Lull, Artmage Varnish) to reach a Fusion or Link boss, backed by up to 12 hand traps for protection (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-trap-led interaction (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru) to break the opponent's first board before rebuilding through the engine (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recursion from the GY and banishment through Medius, Theorealize Past Lull, Ars Magna the Finite and the Infinite and Ars Magna the Division and the Union (Inferred from text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (side_count 0), so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an Artmage or Power Patron starter in most hands: the archetype core group (15 copies) has about a 0.78 chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and searcher-text cards reach about 0.89 (Inferred from hypergeometric estimates). It converts that into Fusion, Link and Synchro bosses with high ATK (Vidolium 5000, Jupiter 3500, Nerva 3300, Junora 3100), and carries 12 hand traps plus 19 negation-text cards to survive a first interruption. The score is capped low because the list is illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and The Fallen & The Virtuous are run three copies against a limit of two, so this is a structural read only. There is no recorded combo data and no Side Deck, and the score does not come from averaging card scores or from the archetype's popularity.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (-12); Banlist exposure (Limited cards) (0); No side deck (0). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(57) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(52) = 56 before modifiers; modifiers -12 gives 44; capped to 40 as structural-only. Meta Power provisional/null.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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

• Archetype-core starter density (about 0.78 odds of a starter in the opening five)
• Strong Extra Deck bosses with high ATK
• Layered hand traps and negation text for interaction

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts on two Semi-Limited cards
• Low exact archetype purity (6.7%) across several sub-engines
• No Side Deck
• No recorded combos or matchup data

Critical choke points

• Fixing the two over-limit cards (Ash Blossom and The Fallen & The Virtuous) to two copies each is required before the deck can be legally played
• Reliance on Power Patron Extra Deck monsters for closing power

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0 are within the TCG size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and The Fallen & The Virtuous are over the Semi-Limited copy limit at 3 copies (legal 2); Limited cards Droll & Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster, Prohibited Power Patron Portal and S:P Little Knight are each at 1 copy
• Observed: Archetype core presence: 10 of 25 usage-listed core cards present (40%)
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability ≈ 0.78 (hypergeometric); Engine coherence reading from archetype_spread and card text; Going-second hand-trap plan
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated metagame sample); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck present, so D12 and the post-side plan cannot be measured