Artmage Deck #773715 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Power Patron Fusion/Link boss monsters (Nerva the Power Patron of Creation, Mediclius, W:P Fancy Ball) reached through Artmage and Medius fusion lines (Inferred); Ars Magna and Power Patron Link Monsters that use the banished Ars Magna effects to keep attacking (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Medius the Pure, Artmage Vandalism or Pendulum Treasure to reach an Artmage fusion or Link starter; keep Ash Blossom or Ghost Ogre up as protection (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Lock Bird) for the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through Pendulum and Power Patron searchers (Inferred)
• Recovery: Rebuild from the GY and banished Ars Magna and Medius effects, then re-enter Artmage monsters through Theorealize and Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis (Inferred)
• After siding: None. The Side Deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan and no adaptation to the matchup (Verified)

Why it scores here

The deck's core Artmage group (25 copies) has a 95.6% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, so the engine usually starts (Inferred, hypergeometric). Conversion is hard to measure: the deck has no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median scores are text-based estimates and stay low-confidence. Interaction is the deck's strongest area, with seven hand-trap-tagged cards and about 57% chance of at least one hand trap when going second (Inferred). The score comes from consistency, interaction density and Extra Deck coverage across the whole system, not from averaging card scores, and not from Artmage's popularity, which the usage data only shows as a real, accessible list. The deck is illegal in TCG as built, with three copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a limit of two, so the score is capped at 30 as a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo profile primary (about 80%), with a small Toolbox tilt for the broad interaction and multi-archetype splash (Inferred). Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); illegal-status cap (-16). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(53.7) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 52.0; modifiers -6 gives 46; the Illegal status caps it at 30 (theoretical, structural-only). Meta provisional.

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

• Core Artmage group is highly accessible (about 96% at least one in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred)
• Layered interaction: seven hand traps plus several spell and trap negations and removal cards (Verified flags, Inferred quality)
• Strong Extra Deck boss options: Nerva, Gustav Rocket, Mediclius, Diactorus, W:P Fancy Ball (Verified card text)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2 (Verified)
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are not measured (Verified gap)
• Empty Side Deck: no post-side plan (Verified)
• Low archetype purity: only 19.7% exact-name Artmage, so the deck mixes several sub-archetypes (Verified)

Critical choke points

• Medius the Pure and the Artmage fusion lines depend on a small set of starters, and removing them breaks the boss lines (Inferred)
• Ash Blossom and the other hand traps are the main protection against going-second disruption; losing them leaves the engine open (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 56 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; one copy-limit violation (Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 vs limit 2); Restricted card statuses and copy counts as listed in the evidence; Archetype purity 19.7% exact-name; 14 exact-name copies of 71 total
• Inferred: Opening-hand accessibility of the Artmage core (0.9555 hypergeometric); Hand-trap coverage when going second (0.5693); Interaction quality and layering from card text; Combo and boss conversion read from text, not recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit, since no dated metagame sample is supplied
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or OTK rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Empty Side Deck: no post-side evidence