Medius Deck #773696 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• 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: Artmage/Medius Fusion and Link pressure: Medius the Pure and Artmage Academic Acropolis search and summon Artmage Fusion/Link monsters (Artmage Non-Finito, Artmage Diactorus, Mediclius) to convert a starter into a board.; Power Patron Link and Xyz boss monsters (Jupiter, Purification Power Patron) after a Power Patron line is established; no recorded boards confirm this.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Medius the Pure or Artmage Power Patron, search Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis or Artmage Vandalism, then Fusion Summon an Artmage monster. Inferred from card text only; no boards supplied.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit and Infinite Impermanence to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Medius and Theorealize effects. Inferred from text only.
• Recovery: Recover through Artmage and Theorealize searchers (Artmage Litera, Theorealize Past Lull, Artmage Varnish) and GY-recursion from Medius the Pure. Text-based inference only.
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no sideboarding plan.

Why it scores here

The score is computed from the system: an Artmage/Medius engine with a real Fusion and Link route, 9 hand traps and about 12 tech or negation cards for interaction, and a 15-card Extra Deck with reasonable coverage. The engine is fragile. Only 3 of 58 main-deck cards carry the exact Medius name, 70 copies are off-archetype, and 21 of 35 distinct main cards are singletons, so a starter is live in an opening 5 only about 24% of the time for a 3-copy card and about 9% for a singleton. No combos, boards or win-rate data were supplied, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences. The deck is Illegal: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization are over the Semi-Limited limit, so the score is capped at 30 and labelled structural-only. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit cap (-10); Banlist exposure (-4); Empty side deck (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*50 + 0.20*40 - 8 = 40, then capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.11 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Real Fusion and Link engine with Artmage Non-Finito, Artmage Diactorus, Mediclius and Junora
• 9 hand traps plus Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre give good going-second interaction
• Extra Deck of 15 gives flexible Fusion, Link, Xyz and Synchro options

Weaknesses

• Illegal: two cards are over the Semi-Limited copy limit
• Only 3 exact Medius-name cards in the main deck, so the engine is diluted by 70 off-archetype copies
• 21 singletons make the engine fragile to a single missing starter
• No Side Deck

Critical choke points

• Medius the Pure (2 copies) as the main starter for the Artmage Fusion route
• Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis (1 copy) as the single Field Spell engine enabler
• Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization are both over-limit and must be cut to 2 each to be legal

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization are at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2; Main 58, Extra 15, Side 0; main and extra sizes are within the GameplayType caps; Extra Deck: 6 Fusion, 6 Link, 2 Xyz, 1 Synchro; Three Limited cards each run at 1 copy
• Observed: Usage statistics show 12 of 25 core cards present (48%)
• Inferred: Starter access about 24% for 3-copy cards in an opening 5; Brick and engine conflict risk from 21 singletons and 70 off-archetype copies; Going-second value from 9 hand traps and Ghost Ogre; Route redundancy from several Artmage and Medius starters
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Tournament reliability (no tournament link or win-rate telemetry)
• 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 and matchup rates are unknown Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null