Artmage Deck #773815 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Artmage Fusion/Link/Xyz boards (Nerva the Power Patron of Creation 3300 ATK, Vidolium 5000 ATK, Artmage Diactorus, Graflare, Finmel) built from Artmage Power Patron, Medius and Acropolis, protected by hand traps and negation; Power Patron Link/Fusion chains via Purification and Predaplant, with Mulcharmy card draw as a grind engine
• Turn 1 (going first): Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis or Artmage Power Patron to Medius, then Artmage Finmel or Litera from hand to extend into a Fusion/Link board; hold Ash Blossom or Maxx C for the first opposing activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand trap (Ash Blossom, Maxx C) on the opponent's starter, then Medius or Power Patron to rebuild; Forbidden Crown or Droplet to clear a blocker and convert with a Fusion boss
• Recovery: Medius the Pure GY revival (shuffle a monster into the Deck), Theorealize Past Lull and Artmage Litera GY recursion, Impasto to punish the next activation
• After siding: No sideboard in Master Duel; adaptation is limited to Extra Deck choice and in-game hand trap timing

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional Artmage starter: 26 core-archetype copies give a 0.997 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and 15 searcher-text cards push the chance of a usable search to about 0.92. Its interaction layer is the main strength: Ash Blossom x3, Maxx C, Forbidden Droplet, Nervedo and Artmage Impasto give it several answers to the first activation, and about 17 cards carry negation text. It converts into pressure through large Extra Deck bodies such as Nerva (3300 ATK), Diactorus and Vidolium, but the recorded-combo data is empty, so the ceiling and median are text-based and not measured. The score comes from consistency, interaction and closing power on the system as a whole, not from averaging card scores, and it does not reflect the Artmage archetype's popularity (no tournament data is attached). Exact archetype purity is only 34.5% (19 of 40 main cards), and the Power Patron, Forbidden, Branded, Mulcharmy and Odd-Eyes lines compete for slots, which pulls the structural score down.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Engine conflicts (-4); Dead Extra Deck slots (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); Structural = sum(score*weight)/95 with D13 dropped; 0.80*63.25 + 0.20*58 - 6 = 56.2

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · 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 engine is nearly always live (26 core copies)
• Four hand traps plus Droplet and Crown give layered first-activation answers
• Strong Extra Deck closing bodies (Vidolium, Nerva, Diactorus)
• Multiple GY recursion routes (Medius, Theorealize, Litera)

Weaknesses

• Low exact archetype purity (34.5%) and split engine lines
• Two Odd-Eyes Extra Deck cards with no Main Deck support
• No sideboard and no post-side plan
• No recorded combos, so the ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Artmage Power Patron / Medius as the first starter (2 copies each)
• Hand-trap count (4) as the only answer to a first-turn board disruption

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0, legal in master-duel; Copy limits respected (Maxx C Limited 1 copy; Fallen & Virtuous Semi-Limited 2 copies); Archetype purity 34.5%; Per-copy draw table values
• Inferred: Starter access and hand-trap coverage; Interaction density and going-second board-breaking; Extra Deck dead-slot assessment; Pilotability estimate
• Provisional: Meta power (null); D13 matchup and format fit; D12 side deck adaptability
• 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 for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rate Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Hypergeometric 4-card group probability in evidence (0.4925) does not match recomputation (~0.65)