Artmage Deck #773570 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters reached through Artmage and Power Patron Fusion and Pendulum lines (Nerva 3300 ATK, Jupiter 3500 ATK, Vidolium 5000 ATK), with Artmage Finmel and Non-Finito as the secondary pressure; Artmage Non-Finito and Artmage Finmel beatdown supported by Graflare protection
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Artmage Power Patron, Medius the Pure, or Finmel), search or Special Summon a second Artmage piece, then Fusion Summon Non-Finito or a Nerva-class boss from the Extra Deck
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Maxx C and Artmage Impasto or Pact to answer the first summon, then rebuild through Medius recursion and Litera or Graflare Special Summons toward a boss monster
• Recovery: Medius the Pure shuffle-and-banish recursion from the GY, Litera and Finmel Special Summons from hand, and Power Patron Portal searches to refill
• After siding: None. The deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan and no Side Deck adaptation is possible

Why it scores here

The deck's consistency rests on a dense searcher and starter package: about 20 searcher-text cards and roughly a 24 percent chance per copy group of a starter in the opening five, which gives an Inferred engine accessibility of about 70. Its ceiling comes from Extra Deck bosses (Nerva, Jupiter, Vidolium) reached through Fusion and Pendulum lines, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based estimates rather than measured output. Interaction is real but conditional, mostly Maxx C plus Artmage Impasto and Pact, which limits going-second board breaking and leaves a fragile answer density. The deck has no Side Deck, so post-side adaptability scores very low, and popularity or archetype usage stats confirm the list is accessible but did not earn points. The score was computed from the system's consistency, route redundancy, and boss closing power, not by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59.8, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: No Side Deck (-3); Engine compactness (1); Conditional interaction (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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 searcher and starter package gives high accessibility (Inferred)
• Multiple independent starters give route redundancy after disruption (Inferred)
• Extra Deck bosses provide strong closing power once a Fusion or Pendulum line lands (Verified stats)
• Coherent Artmage and Power Patron engine with a clear recursion loop through Medius (Verified text)

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation (Verified)
• Only one hand trap (Maxx C) for going second (Verified)
• Interaction is conditional and needs specific board states (Inferred)
• Exact archetype purity is only 30.9 percent, with 38 off-archetype copies (Verified)
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be measured (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Medius the Pure and an Artmage starter in hand: most lines begin with one of 2 or 2 or 2 copies, so an early loss of these blocks the engine
• Non-Finito Fusion requirements (Artmage monsters and Level 7 tributes): a missing Artmage monster on the field stalls the boss line
• Pendulum scale timing for Vidolium and Nervedo: scale must be set before the boss can be reached

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Master Duel: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side, Maxx C 1 of 1 Limited; Exact archetype purity 17 of 40 (30.9 percent); Core archetype usage stats: Maxx C, Impasto, Pact at 100 percent inclusion
• Observed: Usage stats show 14 of 25 core cards present (56 percent)
• Inferred: Starter accessibility and consistency estimates from hypergeometric draws; Going-second interaction density from card text; Pilotability from Fusion and Pendulum sequencing complexity
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and 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: going-first, going-second, matchup, and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck has no Side Deck, so post-side behaviour is not evaluable