Artmage Deck #770936 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Artmage Fusion/Link boards (Nerva is absent; Fusion Non-Finito/Diactorus missing) converting via Power Patron Link and Fusion monsters such as Mediclius, Vidolium (5000 ATK) and Jupiter-line pressure, if the engine is reached; Ars Magna recursion and banished Fusion/Link Special Summons for board stacking
• Turn 1 (going first): Artmage Academic Acropolis / Artmage Litera / Mulcharmy draw to build a Fusion line, protected by Ash Blossom, Droll and Solemn Judgment (theoretical, text-only)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Nibiru, Kuriboh) to break the opponent's first board, then Power Patron Link or Fusion follow-up (theoretical, text-only)
• Recovery: Ars Magna and Theorealize recursion from GY/banish, plus Medius the Pure search (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; this is a structural gap, not a tuned answer

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from its system, not from its cards. Its archetype core (Artmage, Power Patron, Ars Magna) has about a 95% chance of at least one piece in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred, from the archetype-core proxy), which gives a fair starter-access score. Interaction is dense: nine hand traps and eighteen negation-text cards give strong end-board protection, which is why D7 is the highest dimension. Conversion and median output cannot be verified because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage stats show the deck is a real build, but its purity is low (24% exact-name Artmage, with Mulcharmy, Greed, Solemn and Harpie splashes), and this hurt D10 and D11. The list is illegal (Ash Blossom at 3 copies against a limit of 2) and has no side deck, so the final score is capped at 30 and labelled theoretical and structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Midrange secondary (text-only blend, no dated meta). Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 54, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-4); Unrecoverable choke point (-2); Weak/no post-side plan (-3). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 48.6, plus modifiers (-9) = 39.6, then Illegal cap applied: 30 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction suite: 9 hand traps, 18 negation-text cards and 30 removal-text cards
• Real Fusion/Link engine with 15 Extra Deck cards and recursion via Ars Magna and Theorealize
• High archetype-core access (about 95% for at least one core card in a 5-card hand)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy count (Ash Blossom x3, limit 2)
• Low archetype purity (24%) with several off-archetype splashes
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring: over the copy limit, and it is the main hand-trap answer
• The Power Patron Link/Fusion chain depends on a few missing Extra Deck pieces (Nerva, Diactorus)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts (within OCG size_rules); Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 3 copies vs legal limit 2 (Semi-Limited); Archetype purity 24.3% (17/70 archetype-named copies)
• Inferred: Archetype-core access about 0.95 for one piece in hand5; Hand-trap and negation density give strong interaction (D7); Going-first and going-second estimates from card text only
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: 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, matchup, brick/starter rates) exists in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Side deck is empty, so no post-side evidence