Artmage Deck #773694 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Tempo
• 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: Extra Deck Fusion/Link/Xyz finishers (Nerva, Jupiter, Artmage Non-Finito, Mediclius, Junora) summoned off the Artmage/Power Patron engine, closing with high-ATK bodies; Main Deck Power Patron pendulum and Artmage monsters (Vidolium 5000 ATK when it is the boss) pressing through a thin board
• Turn 1 (going first): Pendulum Treasure or Medius/Artmage Vandalism search into an Artmage Power Patron or Pendulum starter, then Fusion/Link into a finisher; hand traps held for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Kuriboh, Droll) to blank the opponent's first board, then rebuild through searcher-text monsters and the Extra Deck
• Recovery: Medius and Mulcharmy recursion from the GY plus Theorealize Past Lull and Artmage Litera to re-establish the engine after a disruption
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs an empty Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The structural read is built on the system, not on card averages. Access is comparatively good: about 25 searcher-text cards and a hypergeometric P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand) of roughly 0.95 suggest the engine usually becomes live on turn 1 (Inferred). Interaction is dense, with 9 hand traps and about 12 negation-text cards, and that density is what keeps the score from falling further. Closing power is real: Vidolium, Jupiter, Nerva and the Extra Deck bosses reach 3000 to 5000 ATK. The score is held down by the legality failure (Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization are each run 3 times against a Semi-Limited cap of 2), by a conflicting Winged Dragon Sphere Mode, by an Artmage/Power Patron/Medius sub-archetype spread with only 20.5% exact-name purity, and by the total absence of combo, side-deck and tournament data. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score. Because the list is Illegal, this result is theoretical and structural only and is capped at 30.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57.4, Going First ≈ 63, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflicts (-4); illegal_cap (-15.9). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 45.9 pre-cap; Illegal deck capped to theoretical/structural-only score of 30

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher text (25 cards) gives a high opening-hand starter probability (Inferred)
• 9 hand traps plus negation/removal text give layered interaction (Inferred)
• High-ATK closing bodies: Vidolium, Jupiter, Nerva, Mediclius (Verified stats)
• Recursion (Medius, Mulcharmy) supports resilience after disruption (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a limit of 2
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode (3 copies) is a poor fit for a Combo engine
• Low exact-name purity (20.5%) across several sub-archetypes
• No recorded combos, so floor and median output are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Extra-Deck finishers need Fusion/Link material from the Main Deck engine; losing the starter on turn 1 removes most of the closing power
• Pendulum Treasure and Medius searches are the main route to the Power Patron starter
• Over-limit Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization must be fixed before the list is playable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 58 cards, Extra 15, Side 0 (within size rules); Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Super Polymerization run 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2 (Illegal); Droll & Lock Bird, Prohibited Power Patron Portal - Terminus and S:P Little Knight are each run 1 copy against Limited (legal); Archetype spread and exact-name purity 20.5%; No combos, tournament link, guides or win-rate data
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability ≈ 0.95 from searcher-text hypergeometric estimate; Interaction density from hand-trap and negation text; Going-second hand-trap probability ≈ 0.65; Ceiling read of Extra Deck finishers from card text; Dimension scores D1–D11 and D14 as written
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); D13 matchup and format fit; Tournament Reliability at 50
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Usage-statistics inconsistency: Artmage Diactorus (27184601), Nerva (53589300), Predaplant Dragostapelia (69946549), Junora (5914858), Purification Power Patron (31822037), Beyond the Pendulum (22125101), S:P Little Knight (29301450) and Artmage Non-Finito (74631897) appear in the Extra Deck card list but are flagged in this deck=false or copies=0 in usage statistics; the core-present percentage (68%) and missing core cards list are therefore unreliable Empty Side Deck: no post-side evidence