Artmage Deck #773945 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 43 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Xyz boss monsters (Nerva the Power Patron of Creation, K9-X Werewolf, Super Starslayer TY-PHON) reached through Artmage searchers and Medius-driven Extra Deck summons.; Artmage Non-Finito and Artmage Diactorus fusion pressure, with K9 Xyz monsters as a second pressure line.
• Turn 1 (going first): Set Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis or Artmage Varnish, search Medius the Pure or an Artmage monster, and Special Summon Power Patron / Finmel for a first Fusion or Xyz line while holding Ash Blossom or Ghost Belle for the opponent's response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Open hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Maxx "C", Nibiru) to negate the opponent's first board-building line, then rebuild through Litera, Graflare, and Mulcharmy draws.
• Recovery: Recover through Medius and Power Patron recursion from the GY, Mulcharmy draw effects, and searcher text (18 copies), then rebuild the Extra Deck summon.
• After siding: Not applicable: side_count is 0 and Master Duel provides no post-side construction in this evidence, so the deck has no sideboard adaptation.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an Artmage searcher or Acropolis line: 18 searcher-text cards and a 0.98 archetype-core group probability in a 5-card hand give it many routes to a starter, with a 2-card bootstrap that is Inferred rather than measured. Its interaction is the strongest part of the system, with 7 hand traps and 14 negation and 17 removal text hints covering both going-first and going-second turns, though its 0.68 going-second hand-trap probability is an estimate. Conversion is uncertain because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling (Nerva, Werewolf, TY-PHON) and the median are both text-only inferences; the floor is held down by fusion and Xyz routes that need several specific cards and by the K9 and Power Patron pieces that dilute the Artmage engine (archetype purity 34.5%). The score comes from consistency, interaction, and resilience measured on the whole system, not from averaging card scores and not from Artmage's popularity, which is absent here anyway. Because there is no tournament, meta, or side-deck evidence, the final score is held near the middle with a wide band.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Single-hub dependency (-2); Engine conflict (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(D13 dropped, renormalised over 95) + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*60 + 0.20*55 - 4 = 55

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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

• Searcher density (18 cards) and archetype-core coverage give a high probability of finding an Artmage line.
• Seven hand traps and broad negation and removal text provide layered interaction on both turns.
• Multiple 3000-class Fusion and Xyz bosses give a closing threat once the Extra Deck summon lands.

Weaknesses

• Low archetype purity (34.5%) splits the deck across Artmage, K9, Mulcharmy and Power Patron, diluting engine coherence.
• No recorded boards exist, so the combo ceiling and floor cannot be measured and rest on inference.
• Usage statistics show Artmage Varnish at 3 copies against a typical 1, and Nervedo and Prohibited Power Patron Portal below typical counts.

Critical choke points

• Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis (2 copies) as the Field Zone hub for most Artmage search and summon lines.
• Medius the Pure (2 copies) as the common route into Power Patron and Fusion summons.
• Artmage Non-Finito (2 copies) as the Extra Deck summon route when Fusion Summons are interrupted.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Legal under the Master Duel ban field; Crossout Designator and Maxx "C" are Limited and each run 1 copy (legal 1).; Main 43 and Extra 15 are inside the master-duel size rules; Side is 0 and allowed.; Composition: 14 distinct Extra cards, 7 Xyz and 7 Fusion copies, 1 Link; 7 hand traps; 18 searcher-text cards.; Archetype purity is 34.5% (Artmage 20 of 58 copies); K9 is 13 copies.
• Observed: Archetype usage statistics: 25 core cards, 13 present (52%); 12 core cards missing from the list.
• Inferred: Archetype-core group P(≥1 in 5-card opener) ≈ 0.98; hand-trap P(≥1 in going-second 6-card hand) ≈ 0.68.; Interaction density (14 negation and 17 removal text hints) supports a Midrange primary with Stun secondary.; Floor, median, and ceiling are text-based only because no combos were supplied.; Going-first and going-second scores are weighted blends of D1, D5, D7 and D8 rather than measured splits.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample or tournament link was supplied.; D13 matchup fit is dropped from the structural score; no matchup data exists.
• 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/second, matchup, or brick/starter rates. Usage statistics conflict with the card list: Artmage Non-Finito, Nerva the Power Patron of Creation, Predaplant Dragostapelia and Artmage Diactorus are present in the card list but flagged in_this_deck=false in usage_statistics. No guides attached for the Artmage archetype (guides_evidence total 0). Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied.