Ars Magna Deck #773497 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Power Patron Link and Fusion boss monsters (Vidolium 5000 ATK via Power Patron effects, Jupiter 3500 ATK, Nerva 3300 ATK) backed by Artmage Fusion routes; structural read only, no recorded boards; Ars Magna Link recursion and ATK-boost effects (Division and Union, Corruption and Purification) as extenders
• Turn 1 (going first): Inferred from card text: Medius the Pure, Artmage Varnish and Theorealize Past Lull search or summon the Artmage/Medius engine pieces, with Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre as going-first protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Inferred from card text: Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence and Kuriboh-Multiply interrupt the opponent's first line, then the Medius/Theorealize engine rebuilds
• Recovery: Inferred from card text: Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Pot of Sloth, Medius and Theorealize recursion from GY and banish effects, plus Ars Magna banish-from-hand searchers
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Super Polymerization are each run 3 times against a limit of 2, so it receives a capped, structural-only score and not a normal Final Contextual score. Structurally it reliably reaches a searcher or engine piece: the evidence shows 25 searcher-text cards, a 94.8% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and an 85.6% chance of at least one archetype-core card. Interaction is dense, with 9 hand traps and 12 tech cards plus 26 removal-text cards, which earns the end-board and going-second dimensions. Combo conversion and median output are unscored by data, since the deck has zero recorded boards, and the ceiling reads come only from card text (Inferred). The score does not come from popularity or from averaging card scores; the archetype purity is only 6.8% exact-name, so the engine is a multi-archetype toolbox, and its weak Main Deck efficiency and empty side deck pull it down. The writeup must say the Final score is capped at 30 because of the copy-limit violations.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); engine_compactness (-4). Final formula: Pre-cap: 0.80*Structural(57) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) + modifiers(-12) = 43; capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power provisional/null.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.14 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher and archetype-core access (P>=1 searcher in 5 cards 0.948)
• 9 hand traps plus Ghost Ogre, Droll and Kuriboh give layered going-second interaction
• Multiple high-ATK Link and Fusion closers (Vidolium, Jupiter, Nerva)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts on Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Low exact-name archetype purity (6.8%) and 16 archetype names across the list

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization overages must be fixed before any normal evaluation
• Engine depends on a few 1-copy Limited and Power Patron pieces whose absence breaks the Link route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 58 cards and Extra Deck 15 cards are within size rules; Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2; Droll and Lock Bird, Prohibited Power Patron Portal - Terminus and S:P Little Knight are each run 1 copy at the Limited maximum; Side deck is empty (side_count 0); Exact-name archetype purity is 6.8%
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand estimates (searcher P 0.948, archetype core P 0.856, hand-trap P going second 0.655); Going-first and going-second plans, recovery plan and interaction read are semantic readings of card text; Dimension scores D1 to D11 and D14 are text-based estimates
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (D13) with no dated meta sample or tournament link
• Data gaps: Illegal copy counts: the Final score is capped, so the structural numbers are theoretical until the list is corrected No recorded combos (total_combos 0): 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 for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rate Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Data inconsistency: usage_statistics marks Purification Power Patron, Mediclius and Artmage Diactorus in_this_deck=false, but the cards list has each in the Extra Deck with 1 copy; the cards list was trusted No side deck registered, so post-side data is absent No guides attached for the archetype (total_guides 0)