Artmage Deck #771935 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Midrange
• 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: Fusion Summon Artmage boss monsters (Artmage Diactorus, Artmage Non-Finito, Nerva) and Extra Deck beaters such as Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Rocket; Pendulum and Power Patron pressure through Vidolium and Junoldo, plus Hyperinvoked Aeon and Starving Venom as backup Extra Deck threats
• Turn 1 (going first): Pendulum Treasure or Artmage Vandalism to search Medius the Pure, Medius Normal Summons with Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis, then Fusion Summon through Artmage Masterwork or Super Polymerization
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Infinite Impermanence to stop the opponent's first board, then rebuild with Artmage Litera or Artmage Finmel searches and Fusion Summon a boss
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Mulcharmy Purulia draw cards when the field is empty, and Artmage Litera and Medius recur Artmage cards from the GY
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adjust between games

Why it scores here

The score comes from the deck as a system: an Artmage core of 21 copies has about a 92 percent chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and the Fusion route to Diactorus, Non-Finito and Nerva is a real engine. Interaction is dense, with about 9 hand traps, 17 negation texts and 25 removal texts, which supports the end-board and going-second scores. Closing power is high because Gustav Rocket, Vidolium and Aeon reach 3800 to 5000 ATK. The score is held down by low archetype purity (only 22 of 70 copies are exact Artmage names, with 6 Mulcharmy and 14 generic cards), by the absence of combo boards to measure median output, and by having no side deck. The deck is illegal (Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a limit of 2), so the score is capped at 30 and the result is theoretical. Popularity of the archetype and the average of individual card scores were not used.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit cap (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*52 + 0.20*45 = 50.6; then Illegal copy-limit modifier -12 gives 38.6, capped at 30 because the deck is illegal (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · 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

• High archetype core access (about 0.92 for at least one core card in a 5-card hand)
• Dense interaction: 9 hand traps plus Solemn, Impasto, Ghost Ogre and Infinite Impermanence
• Several high-ATK Extra Deck closers (Gustav Rocket, Vidolium, Aeon, Nerva)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two cards over their copy limit
• Low archetype purity (31.4 percent exact name; 48 off-archetype copies)
• No side deck, so no adaptation between games
• Extra Deck spread across at least six engines dilutes consistency

Critical choke points

• Medius the Pure and Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis as the main starter path
• Single-copy Limited cards (Solemn Judgment, Gustav Max, Prohibited Power Patron Portal - Terminus) that cannot be replaced

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a limit of 2; Main deck 55 and Extra Deck 15 are within size rules; side deck is 0; Usage stats: Mulcharmy Fuwalos at 83 percent inclusion and Ash Blossom at 62.5 percent, both in the deck; Exact Artmage name purity 31.4 percent
• Observed: Usage statistics show core cards present in this list (11 of 24 core cards present)
• Inferred: Archetype core opening access about 0.92 (hypergeometric); Interaction density strong from card text; Combo ceiling from Fusion boss text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated sample or tournament link)
• 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, going-second, matchup, brick or OTK rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck registered, so D12 cannot be measured from performance