Artmage Deck #773569 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Xyz boss monsters (Nerva the Power Patron of Creation 3300 ATK, K9-X Werewolf 3300 ATK, Super Starslayer TY-PHON 2900 ATK, K9-66X Jacks 2600 ATK) overwhelming an emptied board after an Artmage starter line.; Artmage Non-Finito and Artmage Finmel attacking through a board cleared by Medius-based removal and Xyz effects.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis or Artmage Varnish -Alteration- and use Power Patron, Litera or Finmel to reach a Fusion or Xyz boss, protecting the line with Ash Blossom, Evenly Matched and Artmage Impasto.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand traps (Ash Blossom, Evenly Matched, Maxx C) and Artmage Pact -Awakening- to stop the opponent's first summon, then search and rebuild through Medius, Litera and K9 searchers into a Xyz or Fusion boss.
• Recovery: Recover from the graveyard through Artmage Litera (adds an Artmage card from the GY), Medius the Pure (GY shuffle-and-summon) and Artmage Graflare, while K9 searchers (A Case for K9, K9-17 Ripper) refill the hand.
• After siding: None. The list runs zero Side Deck cards, so it has no post-side plan and cannot tune between games.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reliably enough: three Artmage starters at three copies each give roughly a 23% chance of at least one in a going-first five-card hand, and the 22-copy archetype core gives about 91% at least one in that hand (Inferred). Its conversion is carried by Fusion and Xyz bosses with high ATK (Nerva, K9-X Werewolf, TY-PHON, K9-66X Jacks), which the text supports but no recorded boards confirm, so the ceiling is text-based only. Interaction is the deck's strongest system: seven hand traps, roughly eleven negation effects and about nineteen removal effects (Ash Blossom, Evenly Matched, Maxx C, Crossout Designator, Harpie's Feather Duster, Artmage Impasto) give layered end-board and going-second answers. Points are held back by low archetype purity (28% exact-name), a Mulcharmy and K9 mix that competes with the Artmage field play, and a zero-card Side Deck with no post-side plan. Popularity and archetype usage confirm the list is real and accessible but earned no points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55.5, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: engine conflict (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.23 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.09 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered interaction: seven hand traps plus negation and removal text across Main Deck and Extra Deck
• Multiple starter families (Acropolis, Varnish, Power Patron, Litera, Finmel, Medius) that give more than one way into a boss
• High-ATK Fusion and Xyz bosses that can close a board
• Legal list with no size or copy-limit violations

Weaknesses

• Low archetype purity (28%) with K9, Mulcharmy, Greed and generic cards diluting the engine
• Mulcharmy lines want an empty field, which conflicts with Artmage field-spell play
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Heavy reliance on Fusion and Xyz summoning sequencing, which raises error rate

Critical choke points

• Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis and Artmage Varnish as the only route into the Fusion line when the opponent answers the first summon
• The Xyz and Fusion boss zone, since losing the boss leaves no alternative closer

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal list: 60 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within Master Duel size rules; Three Limited cards (Crossout Designator, Harpie's Feather Duster, Maxx C) each run 1 copy, within limit; Card text and role flags for all listed cards
• Observed: Usage stats: archetype core cards present and typical copy counts (Artmage Power Patron, Graflare, Litera, Medius)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and brick estimates; Interaction density and going-second answer quality from text; Engine conflict between Mulcharmy and Artmage field play
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament or matchup data)
• 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: going-first and going-second splits, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Usage statistics report in_this_deck=false for Artmage Diactorus, Artmage Non-Finito, Nerva and S:P Little Knight, but the cards list shows them in the deck; core_present_pct (44%) is likely understated and the matching should be checked