Artmage Deck #771094 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Artmage Fusion/Link/Xyz boards led by Artmage Non-Finito, Artmage Diactorus, Nerva-style Power Patron finishers and Vidolium (5000 ATK via Pendulum effect); Power Patron Link and Odd-Eyes Absolute Dragon board pressure off Pendulum and Extra Deck summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Medius the Pure or Artmage Litera, search with Artmage Vandalism/Medius and Pendulum Treasure, then extend through Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis and Artmage Varnish toward a Fusion Summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Respond to the opponent's opening with hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Red Reboot) and Artmage Impasto, then convert the surviving Artmage or Medius lines into Extra Deck summons
• Recovery: Recover from GY through Theorealized Medius, Artmage Litera and Theorealize Past Lull, which can each return or special-summon a body from the graveyard or deck
• After siding: No side deck in the export; no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal: four Forbidden cards are run (Triple Tactics Talent, Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Azamina Ilia Silvia, Varudras), so the final score is capped and the evaluation is structural-only. Within that limit, the Artmage core (21 copies) gives a high chance of at least one engine piece in the opening hand (about 0.92), and the search density (about 22 searcher-text cards) supports a stable T1 plan. Interaction is dense (10 hand traps, about 17 negation-text cards), which gives the deck a credible going-second plan even though its bricks and reactive pieces weigh on consistency. Its main-deck construction is weak: 55 cards with 29 singletons and only about 20% exact-name Artmage purity, so the deck is flexible but not compact. No combo boards were recorded, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-based inferences, and popularity was not credited. The score was not produced by averaging card scores, and the Illegal cap applies.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (Forbidden cards in main and extra) (-8); Limited cards at 1 copy (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap: min(0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability, 30) with Meta provisional; 0.80*57 + 0.20*40 = 53.6, capped to 30

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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

• Very high probability of finding an engine piece in the opening hand (Artmage core, 21 copies)
• Dense hand-trap and negation coverage for going second
• Strong searcher and recursion density (Medius, Litera, Theorealize)
• Fusion and Link Extra Deck options with boss-level stats

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: four Forbidden cards must be removed before any normal score applies
• Low main-deck compactness (55 cards, 29 singletons, ~20% exact-name purity)
• High reactive load and brick risk from tech and hand traps
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Medius the Pure and the Artmage Fusion chain: a single disruption to the Medius summon stops most Fusion lines
• Only 3 Power Patron Link/Fusion enablers are present; a missing enabler stalls Extra Deck plays

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Four Forbidden cards are run and make the list Illegal; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within the OCG size limits; Hand-trap, tech, negation and searcher counts from card text; Core-card inclusion rates from usage statistics
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency estimates (0.92 at least one core card); Going-first and going-second plan estimates; Ceiling and interaction ratings from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format-fit scoring
• 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 record are absent No win-rate telemetry, so going-first, going-second and matchup results are unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck in the export