Artmage Deck #771455 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Synchro pressure from Power Patron / Elfnote monsters, with Ars Magna monsters extending boards; Synchro beatdown through Elfnote Lucina, Elfnote Tinia and Vidolium's 5000 ATK pendulum, with Chaos Angel as a backup boss
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Elfnote Power Patron or an Ars Magna monster, reach a Link or Synchro Summon, and protect the center zone with Solemn-style negates and hand traps
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 8 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C, Droll) to break the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draws and Medius recursion
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia draw cards when the board empties, Medius the Pure and Theorealize Past Lull recur monsters from the GY and banishment, and Ars Magna cards add replacement starters from the Deck
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal: three Forbidden Extra Deck cards (F.A. Dawn Dragster, Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon, Baronne de Fleur) are run, so the score is capped and the evaluation is theoretical and structural only. The structural read comes from the system, not from averaging card scores: a 3-copy Link/Synchro starter set (Elfnote Power Patron, Ars Magna, Mulcharmy, Synchro Emergency) that is only about 25% likely to appear in the opening five, backed by 8 hand traps that give a reasonable going-second answer density. The deck's identity is diffuse (exact-name archetype purity is 1.4%, spread across Elfnote, Ars Magna, Mulcharmy, Power Patron, Medius, Synchron and Junk), which lowers engine coherence and pilotability. No combo boards are recorded, so the ceiling and median are text-inferred only. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and the cap, not the structure, sets the final value.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 45.4, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: uncapped no-meta formula 0.80*Structural(45.4) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) + ContextModifiers(-12) ≈ 31, capped to 25 per the Illegal rule; the evaluation is theoretical/structural-only

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

• 8 hand traps and 3 Solemn-family negates give layered interaction density
• Recursive draw and recursion monsters (Mulcharmy, Medius, Ars Magna) allow a fallback when the first line is stopped
• High-ATK Synchro and Pendulum finishers give real end-board closing power once the engine is live

Weaknesses

• Three Forbidden Extra Deck cards make the list Illegal as built
• Engine identity is diffuse: exact-name archetype purity is 1.4% across 7+ sub-archetypes
• 0 side cards, so no post-side adaptability
• Only about 25% chance of a 3-copy starter in the opening 5 cards

Critical choke points

• Any single starter that is blocked in the first turn, since the 3-copy starters are below 0.26 odds in the opening 5
• The Forbidden Synchro cards in the Extra Deck, which cannot be run legally, so the Synchro plan has fewer routes

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 (legal size range OCG 40–60 / 0–15 / 0–15); Three Forbidden Extra Deck cards: F.A. Dawn Dragster, Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon, Baronne de Fleur (copies 1, legal 0); Limited cards run at legal count: Droll & Lock Bird, Elfnote Lucina, Elfnote Tinia, Harpie's Feather Duster, Maxx C, Prohibited Power Patron Portal - Terminus, Solemn Judgment (1 each); Semi-Limited cards run at legal count: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (2), Solemn Warning (1); Archetype-exact name purity is 1.4%
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities for starters, core groups and hand traps; Consistency and brick-rate reads from the composition; Interaction density and resilience from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates from hand-trap probabilities
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample is supplied; Matchup fit (D13) is provisional with no tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied (combo data total 0): 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 exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, starter, brick rates): these signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Usage statistics report in this deck=false for Extra Deck cards that the evidence lists as present (Artmage Diactorus, Mediclius the Extraordinary Power Patron, Purification Power Patron, Junora the Power Patron of Tuning); the core-coverage figure (12/24) is therefore unreliable Deck title is null; archetype label comes from the export only