Artmage Deck #773587 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 12 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Artmage Fusion Monsters (Diactorus, Non-Finito, Graflare-supported boards) and attack through a board the opponent cannot easily negate; Power Patron Extra Deck boards (Vidolium 5000 ATK pressure, Jupiter, Junora/Nerva if present, not in this list)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on an Artmage searcher or Acropolis/Varnish line, search Medius the Pure, Special Summon a Power Patron, and build toward a Fusion Summon of Artmage Fusion Monsters
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C and Nervedo or Evenly Matched to disrupt the opponent's turn, then recover through Medius and Artmage searchers
• Recovery: Recycle Medius from the GY via its shuffle-and-Special-Summon effect and use Artmage Litera and Finmel to rebuild the board from the hand
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; every matchup is played through the same 60 cards

Why it scores here

The list reliably opens an Artmage starter: the archetype core has a hypergeometric chance of about 0.96 to put at least one piece in a five-card opening hand, and a searcher-text group reaches about 0.95, so the deck usually has a functional first turn (Inferred). Its conversion is evidenced only by card text, because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling comes from Fusion chains with Medius and Acropolis and the median is rated lower because the deck runs roughly 28 distinct main-deck cards across at least five sub-archetypes (only 32 percent exact-name purity). Interaction is dense on paper (14 negation-text cards, 26 removal-text cards, 9 hand traps), which drives the endboard and resilience scores, but going second relies on hand traps that will miss a sizable share of openings (about 0.64 chance of at least one in a six-card hand). The deck has no side deck, so its post-side score is weak, and it scores in the middle because popularity and archetype-share data are absent, not because the cards were averaged. The score comes from consistency, median output, and interaction on the system as a whole, not from the individual card scores or from Artmage being a popular archetype.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Combo secondary, applied as the Midrange profile; Combo weights not blended because combo evidence is absent. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Off-archetype dilution (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*57 + 0.20*50 - 3 = 52.6, rounded to 53

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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

• Starter access is very likely in the opening hand (archetype core about 0.96)
• Layered interaction with 9 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards and 26 removal-text cards
• Strong recursion and searcher density through Medius, Litera, Finmel and Acropolis
• Legal under master-duel rules with all restricted cards within their limits

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so the deck has no post-side plan in a best-of-three context
• Only about 32 percent exact-name Artmage purity, which weakens engine coherence
• Multi-step Fusion and Pendulum lines are demanding to pilot without error
• Key finishers from the usage core (Nerva, Varudras, Diactorus, Junora) are absent

Critical choke points

• Medius the Pure is the central searcher and recursion piece, so losing it to a single removal or negation cuts off much of the engine
• Fusion Summons depend on Extra Deck Fusion Monsters, so an early disruption of the Fusion route removes most of the finishers
• Going second depends on hand-trap draws (about 0.64 in six cards)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal size (60 main, 12 extra, 0 side within master-duel limits); Copy limits met for Maxx C (1 of 1), Droll and Lock Bird (2 of 2), and The Fallen and The Virtuous (2 of 2); Archetype purity 31.9 percent and archetype spread from the evidence; Card text for Medius, Ash Blossom, Droll, Litera and Acropolis as read from the excerpts
• Observed: Usage statistics show the Artmage core cards (Maxx C, Impasto, Pact, Litera, Graflare) at high inclusion rates
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability of about 0.96 and searcher group about 0.95; Hand-trap probability of about 0.64 going second; Dimension scores D1 through D14 and the overall structural score of 57; Fusion-chain ceiling and interaction density read from card text
• Provisional: Meta power (null) and matchup fit (D13) without a dated metagame sample; Post-side plan and matchup outcomes without a side deck
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck is registered, so D12 has no performance data