Artmage Deck #773399 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 46/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion/Synchro/Link/XYZ boss monsters (Nerva, Varudras, Baronne de Fleur, Artmage Diactorus, Non-Finito) backed by Power Patron and Artmage recursion; Vidolium 5000 ATK pendulum boss via Power Patron monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Medius/Power Patron/Mulcharmy-type starters, search via Medius or Artmage Litera/Acropolis, Fusion or Link into a 2800+ ATK boss; hold Ash/Impermanence/Ghost Ogre up for the opponent's first answer (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with 9 hand traps (P>=1 hand trap about 0.81, Inferred) to stop the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Medius, Mulcharmy draws and Extra Deck summons (Inferred)
• Recovery: GY-based recursion: Medius shuffle-and-summon from GY, Theorealize Past Lull and Liberation revive a Fusion/Synchro/XYZ from GY, Mulcharmy draws off opponent summons (Inferred)
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot change between games in a best-of-3 (Verified)

Why it scores here

The list is legal and complete (40 Main, 15 Extra, no Side) and runs 16 Artmage-named copies plus a 14-archetype spread that includes Power Patron, Medius and Mulcharmy, which gives several starters that can search or summon from hand, so the engine is accessible on a Midrange plan rather than a single fragile line. The score is held down by the main deck's low purity (about 29% exact-name Artmage), 17 Spell/Trap slots plus 7 Pendulum monsters that are weak as hand-only cards, no Side Deck, and no recorded boards, so median and floor output are unverified. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: 9 hand traps and 14 negation texts give a credible going-second plan, and the Extra Deck supplies several 2800-3300 ATK bosses. Popularity and archetype usage were not counted as power, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (no D13 measured, D13 weight kept at profile value). Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Engine conflicts and archetype spread (-3); Hard-garnet burden (-2); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-6) = 0.80*54 + 0.20*42 - 6 = 45.6, rounded to 46

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Legal list with exact size rules met and no violations
• Nine hand traps and 14 negation texts give strong going-second interaction
• Full 15-card Extra Deck with several 2800-3300 ATK bosses
• Multiple Summon-from-hand starters (Medius, Power Patron, Mulcharmy) for redundancy

Weaknesses

• Exact-name purity 29%; the engine is spread across 11+ related archetypes
• 17 Spell/Trap slots plus 7 Pendulum monsters that are weak as hand-only cards
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adjustment in a best-of-3
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median cannot be assessed

Critical choke points

• Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis (1 copy) as the main field-spell engine piece
• Artmage Pact -Awakening- (1 copy) as the single Fusion-protection trap
• Medius the Pure (2 copies) as the main searcher and recursion piece

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, no violations; Copy histogram: 5 three-copy, 5 two-copy, 15 one-copy cards; Extra Deck composition: 8 Fusion, 2 Synchro, 4 Link, 1 XYZ; Maxx C Limited (1 copy); Super Polymerization Semi-Limited (2 copies); Boss ATK values from card data
• Inferred: Starter access and brick rate from hypergeometric estimates; Hand-trap coverage in going-second hands; Interaction quality from negation and removal text flags; Engine coherence from archetype spread
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament data); Tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• 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 absent No win-rate telemetry for this deck or archetype Usage cross-reference looks inconsistent: usage_statistics marks Nerva, Junora, Diactorus, S:P Little Knight, Predaplant, Mudragon, Varudras, Beyond the Pendulum and Charmer Quartet as in_this_deck=false, yet cards[] lists Nerva, Junora, Diactorus, Predaplant, Mudragon, Varudras, Beyond the Pendulum and Charmer as zone=extra copies=1 (S:P Little Knight is not in cards[]); core_present_pct 64 understates the list and was not used for scoring Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied