Artmage Deck #773496 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss summons (Fusion/Link/Xyz Power Patron and Artmage monsters) built from the Artmage Vandalism / Artmage Varnish / Pendulum Treasure search chain; Hand-trap and negation interaction (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird) to protect the engine and slow the opponent
• Turn 1 (going first): Search and Pendulum/Artmage starters into an Artmage Non-Finito or Artmage Diactorus / Nerva style Extra Deck boss; unverified because no combo boards were supplied
• Turn 2 (going second): Open on hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Kuriboh) to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild through Artmage searchers
• Recovery: Searchers (25 searcher-text cards, P(at least one in hand of 5) about 0.95) and Mulcharmy Fuwalos draw to rebuild after a hand-trap or negation exchange
• After siding: None defined: side deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan at all

Why it scores here

This list is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards, and it is Illegal, so the number is a capped structural read only. Its searcher density (about 25 search-text cards) gives it a high chance of finding an Artmage starter in the opening hand, which supports consistency (Inferred). Interaction is its strongest area: nine hand traps and about twelve negation or tech cards give it real answers on the opponent's first turn, and that matters most going second. Conversion is not measured: no boards were supplied, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inference and should not be read as proven output. The list runs two cards over the copy limit (Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization at three copies, limit two) and carries no side deck, so it cannot be legally played as built and has no post-side plan. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype appears in usage statistics, but exact-name purity is only about 20 percent and tournament share is unavailable.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-6); No side deck (-3); Illegal cap (-9). Final formula: Illegal deck: normal formula not applied as a score. Theoretical only: 0.80*Structural(50) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 48, minus modifiers (-9) = 39, capped at 30 for illegality.

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

• Searcher density gives a high chance of a live engine in the opening hand
• Nine hand traps and negation text give layered interaction, especially going second
• Extra Deck has high-ATK bosses that can close a board if the engine converts

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: two cards run over the Semi-Limited copy limit
• Empty side deck means no post-side plan and no adaptability
• Low exact-name archetype purity (20.5 percent) suggests a loose engine with off-archetype tech
• No combo evidence, so conversion and floor cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Single Artmage or Power Patron starter needed to open the Extra Deck boss line
• Over-limit Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization would be rejected by a legal check

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a legal limit of 2; Main 58 and Extra 15 are inside the TCG size rules; side is 0 (allowed range 0-15); Card text for hand traps, searchers, and Extra Deck bosses is taken from the evidence pack
• Observed: Archetype usage shows 22 core-archetype copies in the list (usage_statistics available)
• Inferred: Searcher density gives about 0.95 chance of a starter in hand of 5 (hypergeometric); Interaction density is high from hand-trap and negation text, so D7 is above average; Going-second score relies on hand-trap timing
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample is supplied; Format fit (D13) and tournament reliability are provisional without a 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 are absent no win-rate telemetry exists for this deck (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null in the source record