Artmage Deck #773146 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Power Patron / Artmage Fusion, Link, and Synchro) reached through Artmage and Power Patron engine chains; Ars Magna and Theorealize recursion into repeated Medius and Power Patron summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on an Artmage or Power Patron starter (Pendulum Treasure, Artmage Varnish, Mulcharmy Fuwalos) and reach a Fusion or Link boss; Artmage Pact and Artmage Impasto protect the line
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, and Ghost Ogre hand-trap package to break the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Medius and Theorealize Past Lull
• Recovery: Recover with Ars Magna and Theorealize Overdrive from GY and banishment, and Artmage Litera to add an Artmage card from the GY
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no side deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional starter: the archetype core (25 copies) has about a 95% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and 23 searcher-text cards make it likely the engine finds its next piece. Its strength is interaction density, with 11 hand traps, 16 negation-text cards, and 31 removal-text cards, which lets it answer the opponent's first engine and then rebuild. The Extra Deck is coherent, with Fusion, Link, and Synchro bosses that reach 3000 to 5000 ATK, but no recorded boards exist, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inferences. The score is structural and then capped because the list is illegal: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization run 3 copies against a limit of 2, and the deck has no side deck. Popularity was not credited: the 95% opening-hand figure is an accessibility estimate, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 62.4, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); illegal_deck_cap (-17). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 59.9 before modifiers; -8 banlist-exposure modifier gives 51.9; the Illegal-deck cap sets the final score to 35 (theoretical/structural only)

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

• Archetype core is highly accessible (about 95% in a 5-card hand)
• Dense interaction: 11 hand traps, 16 negation-text cards, 31 removal-text cards
• Extra Deck is coherent across Fusion, Link, and Synchro bosses

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization exceed their copy limit
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Multi-step chains raise pilot error risk and brick risk from 21 singletons and conditional cards
• Low exact archetype purity (19.4%); the engine depends on several sub-archetypes

Critical choke points

• Artmage or Power Patron starter in hand, since most lines need one
• Medius and Theorealize access for the recovery and Fusion routes
• Ash Blossom copy count: the over-limit list must be fixed before it can be played

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 57 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each at 3 copies against a limit of 2; Card text and types for all listed cards; Extra Deck breakdown: 7 Fusion, 5 Link, 2 Xyz, 1 Synchro
• Observed: Archetype core usage stats: Mulcharmy Fuwalos 83%, Artmage Diactorus 75%, Artmage Non-Finito 67%
• Inferred: Opening-hand accessibility (0.95) and going-second hand-trap coverage (0.74) from hypergeometric estimates; Interaction density from text read; Brick risk and pilot-complexity estimates
• Provisional: Meta power (null); Matchup and format fit (no tournament data); Median output and combo ceiling (no recorded boards)
• 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 side deck (side_count 0), so D12 cannot be measured deck.title is null Shade the Obscure has a corrupted archetype string ('| supports_archetypes Power Patron'), which may distort archetype purity No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; all performance signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied