Artmage Deck #770902 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion/Link/Synchro/Xyz pressure from the Artmage and Power Patron engine (Artmage Non-Finito, Nerva, Jupiter, Junora, Mediclius), backed by Medius the Pure and Theorealize searches; Ars Magna and Pendulum sub-archetype searches feeding Link and Fusion material
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Medius the Pure or Artmage Power Patron, search or summon a second Artmage/Power Patron body, then reach a Fusion or Link Summon into a boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 7 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Kuriboh) to break the opponent's first combo, then convert the surviving Power Patron board
• Recovery: Recover through Mulcharmy draw effects, Ars Magna searches and banished Medius/Theorealized Medius re-summons
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no Side Deck, so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Power Patron/Artmage plan: three Medius the Pure and an Artmage Power Patron give a 25% chance of at least one Medius in an opening 5-card hand, and the searcher text group gives a 94% chance of at least one searcher in hand (Inferred). Its Extra Deck carries 15 Fusion, Link, Synchro and Xyz monsters, and the Power Patron boss monsters (Jupiter, Nerva, Junora) give real closing pressure. Seven hand traps and 13 negation-text cards give the deck layered interaction (Inferred from card text). No recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference and scored conservatively. Popularity was not rewarded: the archetype core present in the list is a real, accessible build, but that alone earned no points. The score comes from consistency, interaction and Extra Deck coverage on the system, not from averaging card scores. It is capped low because the list breaks the 2-copy limit on Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and has no Side Deck.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8). Final formula: Illegal cap: uncapped 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-8) ≈ 44, capped to 30 as theoretical/structural-only (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

• Layered interaction: 7 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards
• Extra Deck at the 15-card cap with Fusion, Link, Synchro and Xyz coverage
• High-ATK Power Patron bosses (Vidolium 5000, Jupiter 3500, Nerva 3300)
• Strong searcher density (23 searcher-text cards)

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 3 copies against a limit of 2
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be verified
• Scattered archetype: only 20% exact-name purity across Artmage, Power Patron, Mulcharmy, Ars Magna and Pendulum

Critical choke points

• Medius the Pure (3 copies) is the main starter; P(≥1 in opening 5) ≈ 0.25
• The Artmage Extra Deck Fusion path depends on the one-of Artmage Power Patron

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, Ash Blossom 3 copies against legal limit 2; Main 55 and Extra 15, both inside the size rules; Extra Deck composition 5 Fusion, 7 Link, 1 Synchro, 2 Xyz; Boss ATK values (Vidolium 5000, Jupiter 3500, Nerva 3300)
• Inferred: Medius starter probability ≈ 0.25 (hypergeometric); Searcher access probability ≈ 0.94; Hand-trap going-second probability ≈ 0.58; Interaction density from text (7 hand traps, 13 negation-text)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Format fit and matchup coverage (D13)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second and matchup results are unknown Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample usage_statistics.in_this_deck is false for 8 Extra Deck core cards (Purification, Mediclius, Nerva, Diactorus, S:P Little Knight, Non-Finito, Junora, Beyond the Pendulum) that the cards list shows in the Extra Deck; the core-present percentage (68%) is therefore understated and was treated as ~100% in this evaluation No Side Deck (side_count 0), so post-side scoring is unavailable