Artmage Deck #772000 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Artmage Fusion/Link/Xyz boards (Artmage Non-Finito, Artmage Diactorus, Nerva, Gustav Rocket, Jupiter) converting from Power Patron and Artmage engine searches; Power Patron Link/Fusion beats and Gustav Rocket 5000 ATK pressure once a board is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Artmage/Power Patron searchers (Artmage Power Patron, Medius the Pure, Pendulum Treasure, Artmage Vandalism) to reach an Artmage Fusion or Link board; hold Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence for responses
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 7 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence, Nervedo, Mulcharmy Fuwalos) to interrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Artmage Litera and Finmel recursion
• Recovery: Recover through GY-recursion monsters (Medius the Pure, Theorealized Medius, Artmage Litera, Artmage Graflare) and Theorealize Past Lull, which can Special Summon from GY or banishment
• After siding: Not supported: the deck registers zero Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck reliably reaches its Artmage core: the core group has a 0.9934 probability of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and searcher text has 0.9691 odds, so the engine comes online often (Inferred). Its closing power is real, with Gustav Rocket at 5000 ATK, Nerva at 3300 and Jupiter at 3500 ATK, but no recorded boards exist, so conversion and median output are scored from card text only (Inferred). Interaction is dense (14 negation-text cards, 20 removal-text cards, 7 hand traps), which supports resilience and going-second play. The score is held down by the illegal list (Ash Blossom at 3 copies against a limit of 2), by only 17 of 40 main-deck cards carrying the exact Artmage name (31.5% purity, spread across Power Patron, Ars Magna, Medius, Pendulum, Train and Predaplant), and by an empty Side Deck. Popularity was not credited: no usage or tournament share lifted the score, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Combo secondary (informational only; the profile weights are not blended). Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-4); no_side_deck (-2); illegal_cap (-18). Final formula: Illegal cap: uncapped no-meta formula 0.80*57 + 0.20*42 = 54, with modifiers -6 giving 48; the deck is Illegal, so the score is capped at 30 and the evaluation is theoretical and structural only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core Artmage engine is almost always reachable in a 5-card opening hand (0.9934 proxy, Inferred)
• Dense interaction: 7 hand traps, 14 negation-text and 20 removal-text cards
• High closing ceiling from Gustav Rocket (5000 ATK), Jupiter (3500 ATK) and Nerva (3300 ATK) with 14 Extra Deck slots

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run 3 times against a limit of 2
• Low purity: 31.5% exact-name Artmage, so many off-archetype cards dilute the engine
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan
• Many multi-step Fusion, Link and Xyz lines reduce pilotability

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom at 3 copies: the list cannot be played legally until one copy is removed
• Artmage Power Patron and Medius as the opening searchers for the Artmage engine
• Going-second turn depends on hand traps being in the 6-card hand

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 40 cards, Extra 14, Side 0; sizes are within OCG limits; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is over the copy limit at 3 copies vs 2; Four other Limited cards are run at their legal limit of 1; Archetype purity 31.5% exact name (17 of 40); Gustav Rocket ATK 5000, Jupiter ATK 3500, Nerva ATK 3300
• Observed: Artmage core usage stat: 24 core copies in the deck, with the archetype-standard list at 66.7% core present
• Inferred: Opening-hand access (0.9934 core, 0.9691 searcher text) and 3-copy starter odds (0.3376); Interaction density and going-second hand-trap odds (0.7114); Ceiling and closing power from card text only, with no recorded boards
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no tournament link or dated meta sample); Meta Power (null); Post-side adaptability (no side cards, no post-side data)
• 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 are absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample no guides attached (guides_evidence total_guides 0) Side Deck is empty, so post-side behaviour is unknown