Power Patron Deck #772441 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox, Tempo
• 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 monsters (Vidolium 5000 ATK via Pendulum/Power Patron, Jupiter 3500 ATK, Nerva 3300 ATK, Mediclius 3000 ATK) after the Mulcharmy/Medius/Artmage engine has put the board together; Hand-trap and removal-based interaction (16 hand traps, 35 removal-text cards) that stalls the opponent while the engine builds advantage
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Mulcharmy Fuwalos/Purulia and Pendulum Treasure or Medius for draw and Power Patron extension, then Artmage Finmel or Artmage Non-Finito fusion into a Power Patron Link or Fusion boss; the 2-hand-trap draw is the main risk on the first turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 2-4 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird) to answer the opponent's first summon, then convert Mulcharmy draws and Medius/Theorealized Medius into a board
• Recovery: Mulcharmy draw effects, Theorealize Past Lull recursion from the GY, and Ars Magna banish-to-search effects refill the hand after a board wipe or hand-trap-heavy turn
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 side-deck cards in the export, so there is no post-side plan to score

Why it scores here

The deck opens a live plan reasonably often: the archetype core group has about 0.82 probability of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and the 16 hand traps give about 0.88 probability of at least one going second. Its strongest signal is interaction density: 16 hand traps and 35 removal-text cards make the deck hard to play through on the opponent's turn, which earns D7 and D8 points. Conversion is scored on text alone because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling (Vidolium, Jupiter, Nerva) is treated as an unverified upper bound and not as the typical result. The deck is capped low because Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2, so the score is a theoretical structural read. Popularity and the usage core (71.4% of core cards present) did not earn points on their own, and the dimension scores were not averaged from card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy limit (-15); No side deck (-2); Off-archetype dependence (-3). Final formula: Legality cap applied (Illegal: Ash Blossom 3 copies vs limit 2). Pre-cap: 0.80*57 + 0.20*45 = 54.6, then modifiers -5 = ~50, capped to 35 as theoretical/structural only. Meta Power provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.18 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• 16 hand traps and 35 removal-text cards give dense interaction on both turns
• Mulcharmy draw engine (3 Fuwalos + 3 Purulia) and Medius/Theorealize recursion sustain card flow
• Strong Extra-Deck closers (Vidolium, Jupiter, Nerva, Mediclius) once the engine is online

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is over the copy limit (3 vs 2)
• Thin exact-name coherence (12.5%) with a large off-archetype share
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Brick risk from 16 hand traps that do nothing without an opposing board or a live engine

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom over-limit: the list cannot be played legally as built
• Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis and Medius summons gate the fusion route
• Mulcharmy conditions ('if you control no cards') restrict when the draw engine turns on

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs Semi-Limited limit 2 (Illegal); Main 57 within 40-60; Extra 15 within 0-15; Side 0 within 0-15; Archetype core P(>=1 in 5-card hand) = 0.821 from the hypergeometric table; Usage: 10 of 14 core cards present (71.4%); Composition: 9 exact-name Power Patron copies, 63 off-archetype copies
• Observed: Usage statistics show Mulcharmy Fuwalos at 84% and Ash Blossom at 57% inclusion across the archetype
• Inferred: Starter reliability and brick rate estimates; Interaction quality read from text (negation, removal, hand-trap role tags); Ceiling and median output read from text only (no recorded boards); Going-first vs going-second split estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13 = 50, no tournament data)
• Data gaps: Illegal copy-limit violation (Ash Blossom 3 vs 2) makes this a structural-only score No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No side deck in the export: D12 cannot be measured from data No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate or brick telemetry exists; those signals are Inferred Deck title is null Data quality: Shade the Obscure archetype field contains the string '| supports_archetypes Power Patron' (not a real archetype name), which may distort archetype purity