Artmage Deck #770721 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 51 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Power Patron and Elfnote monsters converting through Synchro and Link summons into a 2400-3100 ATK board, with Ars Magna Corruption/Finite searches feeding the pressure; Ekhajar, Chaos Angel, Infernal Strike Fighter and Medius/Diactorus-style boards pressing over a hand-trap-protected field
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Elfnote Regina or Power Patron starters that Special Summon from hand, use Mulcharmy draws and Elfnote searches to reach a Synchro or Link, and keep Solemn Judgment or Ash Blossom up as the first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Effect Veiler, Nibiru, Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre) against the opponent's starter, then rebuild the engine from a six-card hand with Medius and Theorealize as the reset
• Recovery: Recover through Mulcharmy draws, Elfnote GY revival and Theorealize Past Lull from the GY to re-establish a monster in the center zone
• After siding: Not available: the deck has no side deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan and no sideboard adaptation

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a starter in a fair share of hands: the archetype core of 19 copies has about a 91 percent chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and the hand-trap group reaches about 75 percent in a 6-card going-second hand, so the interaction layer is real. Conversion is the weak point: the list spans at least four related sub-archetypes (Elfnote, Power Patron, Mulcharmy, Ars Magna) with only 1.5 percent exact-name purity, so the Synchro and Link routes are coherent only in part. There are no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences and are not treated as measured output. The score is scored on the system, not an average of card scores, and popularity of the Artmage archetype did not earn points. Because three Forbidden cards are run, the deck is Illegal and is capped at 30 as a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-5); no Side Deck (-3). Final formula: Illegal cap: uncapped 0.80*Structural(51) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 49 with modifiers -8 = 41, then capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only); Meta Power provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.27 · 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 of 19 copies gives about 91 percent access in a 5-card hand
• Layered hand traps and negations (Effect Veiler, Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Solemn-type traps) support going second
• Large Extra Deck coverage of Synchro and Link routes with high-ATK ends (Chaos Angel, Ekhajar, Elfnote Tinia)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three Forbidden cards are run at 1 copy each, so it cannot be played as built
• Very low archetype purity (1.5 percent exact name), so the engines compete for the same hand slots
• No side deck, so there is no adaptation for best-of-3
• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Power Patron and Elfnote starter access depends on a small number of Synchro and Link summons; losing a single Extra Deck monster to interaction stalls the line
• Forbidden Synchros removed from the list leave Extra Deck gaps that have to be replaced before the deck is legal
• Hand-trap density cannot cover every opponent action when the first starter is blocked

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: three Forbidden cards at 1 copy each (legal copies 0); Main 51 and Extra 15 are within the OCG size rules; Side 0 is within range; Archetype core 19 copies with P(>=1 in 5) = 0.914 (hypergeometric); Exact archetype-name purity 1.5 percent
• Inferred: Toolbox primary strategy from hand-trap and negation density with no combo data; Opening-hand access and going-second hand-trap coverage from hypergeometric estimates; Interaction layering and Synchro/Link engine coherence from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample or tournament link); Tournament reliability (no win-rate telemetry)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null in the export