Medius Deck #773747 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Power Patron Link and Synchro boss monsters (Mediclius, Elfnote June Pride, Junora) pressured through Medius and Ars Magna ATK and attack boosts (Inferred from card text); Elfnote Regina and Elfnote Lucina board presence backed by Elfnote Fortuna and Elfnotes: Welcome Home protection (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Power Patron or Elfnote enabler with Medius, Ars Magna or Junoldo, then Special Summon Regina or Medius to reach a Link or Synchro boss (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler or Droll & Lock Bird to stop the opponent's first engine or search, then rebuild through Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws and Medius recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover from the GY through Medius, Elfnote Welcome Home and Jet Synchron, and rebuild with the many searchers in the Main Deck (Inferred)
• After siding: None. The deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan (Verified: side count 0)

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: searcher density (23 searcher-text cards, P of at least one searcher in an opening 5 ≈ 0.99) makes the engine reliably reachable, and seven hand traps plus three negation-capable effects give it real interaction, especially when going second (P of a hand trap in a 6-card hand ≈ 0.71). Its ceiling comes from text-only Power Patron Link and Synchro bosses, but no recorded boards exist, so ceiling and median are both Inferred and kept separate. Popularity did not earn points: the Medius archetype appears in the usage stats only as a family, and exact-name purity is just 7.3%, so the engine is spread across Elfnote, Ars Magna, Power Patron and Medius sub-archetypes. The score is capped at 40 because the list is illegal: Elfnote Lucina is run 3 times against a limit of 1, and Ash Blossom is run 3 times against a limit of 2. Card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59.9, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist_exposure_illegal_copies (-6); no Side Deck (-2); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + modifiers = 48.9 uncapped; capped at 40 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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 searchers (23) make the engine almost always reachable
• Seven hand traps with negation text give strong going-second interaction
• Multiple recursion and self-summon routes give resilience
• Strong Link and Synchro ceilings in the Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Illegal: two cards over the copy limit
• No Side Deck and no post-side plan
• Low exact-name archetype purity, so the engine is spread across sub-archetypes
• Tuner-heavy hands and multi-step chains lower pilotability

Critical choke points

• Medius the Pure (3 copies, P(at least one in opening 5) ≈ 0.34) is the main Power Patron enabler; a hand without it relies on searchers
• Elfnote Lucina and Ash Blossom copy counts must be fixed before the list is playable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 are within the TCG size rules; Elfnote Lucina 3 copies vs limit 1 and Ash Blossom 3 copies vs limit 2 are copy-limit violations; Restricted-card counts (Droll & Lock Bird, Prohibited Power Patron Portal, S:P Little Knight, T.G. Hyper Librarian, Elfnote Lucina, Ash Blossom) are within their limits except the two violations above; Exact-name purity 7.3%; archetype spread recorded; Usage stats: 15 of 25 core cards present (60%)
• Observed: Usage stats show the deck runs the Medius family core with some deviations
• Inferred: Consistency and hand-trap probabilities; All dimension scores, including the text-only Power Patron ceiling; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit (50, neutral)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null No guides for the archetype (guide data total 0)