Artmage Deck #773876 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 12 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion-driven boards: Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis plus Medius the Pure into Artmage Diactorus, Artmage Non-Finito or Nerva the Power Patron of Creation, with Vidolium and Jupiter as high-ATK closers.; Power Patron GY and Medius recursion grinding the opponent's field down while hand traps protect the board.
• Turn 1 (going first): T1 Acropolis or Medius search and Normal Summon, then a Fusion Summon through the Field Zone; hold Ash Blossom and Evenly Matched for the opponent's first answer.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C" and Nervedo to interrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild from Medius and Power Patron GY effects.
• Recovery: Recover from the GY: Medius can be revived by shuffling a monster, Power Patron monsters return from the GY, and Artmage Litera adds an Artmage card from the GY to hand.
• After siding: No side deck in the export (side_count 0), so there is no evidence of a post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional Artmage engine most of the time: 27 archetype-core copies give roughly 0.96 probability of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred). Its ceiling comes from the Acropolis, Medius and Fusion chain into Diactorus, Non-Finito or Nerva, with Vidolium and Jupiter as high-ATK closers. Interaction is layered across Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C", Nervedo, Litera and Impasto, giving roughly 0.64 probability of a hand trap when going second. The score is held back by a brick-prone cluster (three Winged Dragon of Ra Sphere Mode, six Mulcharmy, Pot of Sloth), exact archetype purity of only 31.9%, and no side deck or combo telemetry. Structural power was computed on the system with the Combo weight profile and was not averaged from card scores; popularity and usage statistics did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: engine_conflicts (-3); dead_card_burden (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional), then context modifiers (-5): 0.80*57.4 + 0.20*48 - 5 = 50.5, rounded to 51

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

• Archetype core is dense (27 copies) and the engine opens often
• Layered interaction: Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C", Nervedo, Litera, Impasto and Dark Ruler No More
• High-ATK closers (Vidolium 5000, Jupiter 3500, Nerva 3300) and strong recursion through the GY
• Legal list: 60 main, 12 extra, Limited and Semi-Limited copy limits respected

Weaknesses

• Exact archetype purity is only 31.9%; 49 of 60 main copies are off the Artmage name
• Three Winged Dragon of Ra Sphere Mode and six Mulcharmy are conditional or dead in many hands
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptability
• No recorded boards, so consistency and combo output are text-only estimates

Critical choke points

• Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis plus Medius the Pure is the central starter; without either, the Fusion line stalls
• Fusion Summon routes depend on Artmage Power Patron and the Extra Deck Fusions (Diactorus, Non-Finito)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status; 60 main / 12 extra / 0 side against Master Duel size rules [0-60 main, 0-15 extra, 0-15 side]; Copy limits: Maxx "C" 1 (Limited), Droll & Lock Bird 2 and The Fallen & The Virtuous 2 (Semi-Limited); Card text and stats for the 40 distinct cards in the evidence; Archetype purity 31.9% and copy histogram (1x10, 2x4, 3x14)
• Observed: Usage statistics show the Artmage core inclusion percentages (34 rows)
• Inferred: D1 consistency from hypergeometric estimates (0.957 archetype-core, 0.640 hand-trap at 6 cards); Combo ceiling and interaction density from card text, not recorded boards; Brick rate from dead-card composition
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Side-deck adaptability (no side deck in export)
• Data gaps: No recorded combos: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for this deck Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Usage-statistics in_this_deck flags appear to count only the Main Deck: Nerva, Predaplant, Junora, Diactorus, Non-Finito, Purification and S:P Little Knight are in the Extra Deck list but are marked not in deck. Core presence is therefore understated (22 of 25 present, not 15), and the flags should be fixed upstream No side deck in the export, so post-side evaluation is not possible