Artmage Deck #772440 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 38/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss pressure (Artmage Non-Finito, Nerva the Power Patron of Creation, Mediclius, Junora) reached through Medius the Pure and Power Patron / Artmage search chains (text-inferred; no recorded boards); Link/Xyz pressure from Power Patron link monsters and Number 38 / Jupiter, supported by Ars Magna recursion
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Medius or Power Patron starter, search an Artmage enabler with Artmage Varnish / Acropolis / Finmel, then Fusion or Link into a boss while holding hand traps for the opponent's first response (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre and Droll & Lock Bird to answer the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Theorealize Past Lull and Medius recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Banish Ars Magna monsters from hand or GY for search and Special Summon effects, and use Medius recursion from the GY to restart the board (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: No side deck is run (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adapt between games in a best-of-3 (Verified)

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in OCG: three copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a limit of two, so it receives a capped structural-only score rather than a normal contextual one. Its engine is reasonably accessible: 25 archetype-core copies give about a 95% chance of at least one in an opening five-card hand, and 16 hand-trap or negation-text cards support interaction (Inferred from hypergeometric estimates). The score does not come from averaging card scores or from Artmage's popularity; the recorded combo corpus is empty, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. The deck runs no side deck and has no tournament or win-rate data, so adaptability and format fit are scored low and marked Provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 51.2, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 47, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: illegal_copy_limit (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 49.9, then capped by the Illegal-status modifier to 38 (structural-only evaluation)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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

• Broad interaction suite: 16 hand-trap and negation-text cards plus 35 removal-text cards
• Archetype-core density (25 copies) gives high starter access
• Extra Deck offers multiple boss options (Nerva 3300 ATK, Jupiter 3500 ATK, Junora 3100 ATK)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy count: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring run at 3 copies against a limit of 2
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Low exact-name archetype purity (16.7%), with heavy reliance on related sub-archetypes
• No recorded combo boards, so ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Medius the Pure and Power Patron starters: most lines begin with them, so a hand without one is weak (Inferred)
• Ash Blossom over-limit: must be fixed before the list is legal to play
• Extra Deck dependency: several bosses require specific Fusion or Link materials (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 3 copies against a limit of 2 (OCG Semi-Limited); Main 57, Extra 15, Side 0 (main within 40–60; extra within 0–15); Limited cards (Droll & Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster, Prohibited Portal, S:P Little Knight) are each at 1 copy, within limit; Printed ATK/DEF for the Extra Deck bosses (Nerva 3300, Jupiter 3500, Junora 3100)
• Observed: Usage statistics show 62.5% core-card presence; Ash Blossom appears in 62.5% of archetype lists at a typical 3 copies
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter access ≈ 0.95 for the archetype core (hypergeometric); Hand-trap coverage for going-second ≈ 0.88 (hypergeometric); Interaction breadth from hand-trap and negation text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Tournament reliability (no win-rate telemetry)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Data quirk: Shade the Obscure has archetype "| supports_archetypes Power Patron" in the export, which looks like a parsing artifact; it was not used for scoring