Artmage Deck #770835 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Artmage Fusion and Link pressure built around Medius the Pure and Artmage monsters, with Power Patron and Ars Magna follow-ups (Inferred from card text and archetype usage; no recorded boards); Single-card Extra Deck boss finish from Gustav Max or Gustav Rocket, Vidolium or Jupredo pendulum pressure (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Medius the Pure (3 copies) or Artmage Power Patron (1 copy), then Normal Summon Medius and use its search or Special Summon text to reach Power Patron and Artmage pieces; hand traps are held for the opponent's first response (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Infinite Impermanence (14 hand-trap copies, P of at least one in a 6-card hand about 0.83) to interrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Medius recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Theorealized Medius and Medius recursion from the GY, plus Theorealize Past Lull and Artmage Litera, to rebuild the board after a disruption (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan (side_count 0)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Medius-based starter in most hands: the searcher-text group reaches at least one copy in 0.90 of opening 5-card hands, and the 25-card archetype core is present in 0.95 of them (Inferred from the hypergeometric table). Interaction is the strongest part of the system, with 14 hand-trap copies, 31 removal-text cards and 17 negation-text cards, giving a going-second hand-trap hit rate near 0.83 (Inferred). The score is held down by off-archetype bloat: exact archetype purity is only 19.4% with 58 off-archetype copies across Pendulum, Predaplant, Train and Galaxy-Eyes pieces, which raises brick risk and lowers the Extra Deck efficiency. There are no recorded boards, no tournament link and no sideboard, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inferences. The deck is illegal as submitted because Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 3 copies against an OCG limit of 2, so the result is capped and labelled theoretical and structural only. The score was not produced by popularity or by averaging card scores; it reflects the system's consistency, interaction and resilience.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: copy-limit violation (banlist exposure) (-12); unrecoverable choke point (-3); illegal-deck cap (-8). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 53; modifiers -15 gives 38; illegal-deck cap gives 30 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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: 14 hand traps, 31 removal-text cards and 17 negation-text cards
• Redundant searcher text (20 cards) and 25-card archetype core give high P of a live starter
• Medius recursion and Theorealize provide recovery after disruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 3 copies against an OCG limit of 2
• Low archetype purity (19.4%) with off-archetype Pendulum, Predaplant, Train and Galaxy-Eyes pieces
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• High pilot complexity across Fusion, Pendulum and Link sequencing

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Artmage Power Patron as the main Artmage-engine starter
• Medius the Pure copies in hand as the main entry to the Fusion and Power Patron engine

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is 3 copies against an OCG limit of 2; main 57, extra 15, side 0 are within size rules; Archetype purity 19.4% (14 exact-name copies out of 72); Card texts for the 35 main and 14 extra distinct cards as supplied
• Observed: Usage stats: 25-card Artmage core, 17 of 25 present (68%)
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency from hypergeometric draws (searcher group 0.90, core 0.95, hand-trap 0.83); Going-first and going-second plans and recovery routes from card text; Interaction density scores from text flags
• Provisional: Meta power is null; matchup and format fit (D13) are Provisional with no dated sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record 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 Deck title is null and no sideboard is registered