Artmage Deck #772904 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon pressure from the Extra Deck (Mediclius, Red Ransom, Heatsoul, Accesscode, Hearts Crypter) backed by hand-trap protection (Inferred; no combo boards to confirm); Maliss and Ars Magna recursion and searching into Link finishers (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Starter from Medius, Fuwalos, Chessy Cat or Ghost Ogre, search or special-summon a second engine piece, then Link Summon toward a 2300 to 3000 ATK Link (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Evenly Matched, Nibiru, Droll & Lock Bird and Ghost Ogre to interrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draws and Medius recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recur Medius from the GY or banishment through Theorealize Overdrive and Maliss monsters from the Deck (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: None. The deck runs 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The 55-card main deck is legal in size but illegal on copy limit: it runs 3 copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a Semi-Limited limit of 2, so the evaluation is theoretical and structural only and the final score is capped low. The deck reliably has interaction: hand traps (Ash, Evenly Matched, Nibiru, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird) and removal-text cards give it breadth, and the hypergeometric estimate of an archetype-core card in the opening hand is about 0.86 (Inferred). Its engine is split across Maliss, Ars Magna, Medius, Code Talker, @Ignister and Bystial with 0 cards named exactly Artmage, so consistency and pilotability are reduced by sub-archetype conflicts and off-plan bricks. No recorded boards, combo steps or tournament results exist, so the combo ceiling and median are unmeasured and the usage-statistics popularity of the list earned no points. The score comes from the deck as a system (consistency, interaction, recovery, closing) and not from averaging card scores, and the illegal copy-limit and zero-slot sideboard lower it further.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: Illegal copy limit (-6); Engine conflicts (-3); No sideboard (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers (-11), Illegal deck: theoretical/structural only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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: hand traps, removal text and two floodgate-style cards
• Multiple recursion routes (Medius, Mulcharmy draws, Maliss banish-to-search)
• Strong Link finishers in the Extra Deck (2300 to 3000 ATK)

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring over the copy limit
• Engine split across several sub-archetypes with no exact Artmage core
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded combo boards, so ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom copy count must be fixed before the list is playable
• Medius and Maliss monsters are the main starter route; few alternatives if they are blanked

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; Main and Extra sizes are legal for OCG; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 3 copies vs legal limit 2 (Semi-Limited); Limited cards run at 1 copy each (legal); Extra Deck: 14 Link monsters and 1 Xyz monster; Archetype purity: 0 exact Artmage cards; 70 off-archetype copies
• Observed: Usage statistics: 9 of 24 core cards present (see data gaps for correction)
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities for starters and the archetype core; Interaction breadth and end-board quality from card text; Recovery routes from card text; Post-side and Going-first/second plans
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Tournament reliability (no win-rate telemetry)
• Data gaps: Illegal copy-limit violation: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 3 copies vs legal 2; the score is theoretical/structural only 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/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or unknown Meta power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Usage statistics core-card presence (37.5%) appears undercounted: Purification Power Patron (31822037), S:P Little Knight (29301450) and Mediclius (4063756) are all in the Extra Deck list but are reported in missing core cards; the preprocessor appears to check only the Main Deck No Side Deck supplied (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side evidence exists