Artmage Deck #773392 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Midrange
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion/Link/Synchro/Xyz boss monsters (Nerva, Jupiter, Varudras, Junora, Diactorus, Non-Finito) built through Artmage and Power Patron starters; Pendulum and Power Patron boss pressure (Vidolium 5000 ATK boost, Dragostapelia) plus Mulcharmy card advantage
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Power Patron or Artmage starter (Artmage Power Patron, Nervedo, Portal) to search or summon the Fusion/Synchro enablers, then convert into a boss while protecting with Ash Blossom and Maxx C
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Impasto and Pact to answer the opponent's first summon, then rebuild from Medius and Litera in the GY and hand
• Recovery: Medius recursion from the GY, Litera and Nervedo draw/search effects, and Mulcharmy draw triggers to refill the hand after a board break
• After siding: No side deck is listed, so there is no post-side plan in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a starter: the Artmage/Power Patron core (25 copies) gives P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.99, and the 2-copy starters carry about 0.23 each going first. Its ceiling is high because the Extra Deck holds several 3000+ ATK bosses (Nerva, Junora, Jupiter, Varudras) that each need a short chain of Fusion, Synchro or Xyz summons. Consistency is held back by Mulcharmy (6 copies) and Artmage pieces that are dead in hand without a Power Patron, and by a spread across about ten sub-archetypes (exact-name purity only 28.6%). Interaction is dense (Ash x2, Maxx C, Impasto, Pact, Forbidden Crown, and several boss negates), which earns D7 on the system rather than on any single card. The score does not come from Artmage's popularity, and card scores were not averaged; the deck has no side deck and no recorded boards, so the median and post-side dimensions are weak and marked as inferred.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo (D13 dropped and renormalized, total 97). Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: engine conflicts across sub-archetypes (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*62 + 0.20*52 = 60, then -3 modifier = 57

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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

• Dense hand-trap and negate layer (Ash x2, Maxx C, Impasto, Pact, Forbidden Crown)
• High Extra Deck ceiling with several 3000+ ATK bosses reachable through Artmage and Power Patron routes
• Starter access is strong: the core group appears in about 99% of opening hands
• Mulcharmy and Medius give card advantage and GY recursion after interaction

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so there is no post-side plan
• Low exact-archetype purity (28.6%) and several unrelated sub-archetypes share hand and Extra slots
• Mulcharmy and some Artmage pieces are dead in hand without a Patron
• Going second is weaker: only 3 hand traps and no direct board breaker

Critical choke points

• Artmage Power Patron and Nervedo are the main starters; losing them to hand traps or a board break leaves few alternatives
• Fusion-based bosses (Non-Finito, Diactorus) depend on Medius and the Artmage Fusion chain
• Ash and Maxx C are the only cheap answers to going-second hand traps

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal size 41/15/0 within MD rules; Maxx C (1 Limited), Super Polymerization (2 Semi-Limited) and The Fallen & The Virtuous (2 Semi-Limited) are at legal copy counts; Archetype spread: Artmage 16, Power Patron 10, generic 9, Mulcharmy 6, Branded 3 (composition); Extra Deck breakdown: Fusion 8, Synchro 2, Link 3, Xyz 2
• Observed: No recorded boards; combos_evidence shows total_combos 0
• Inferred: Core-group opening-hand probability 0.994 and 2-card starter odds 0.23 (hypergeometric); Interaction density from card text across hand traps, negates and boss effects; Going-second hand trap odds 0.39 over 3 copies; Brick and conflict risk from Mulcharmy and Artmage non-starters
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup/format fit (set to 50 and excluded from structural weights)
• 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, so going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are inferred or unknown Meta Power is provisional because no dated metagame sample is supplied Data inconsistency: usage_statistics marks Nerva, Junora, Dragostapelia, Varudras, Mudragon and Jupiter as in_this_deck=false, but the cards list has them in the Extra Deck; core_present_pct (64%) is unreliable No side deck is present, so post-side (D12) cannot be evaluated