Medius Deck #774013 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Pressure from Power Patron / Elfnote Link and Synchro bodies (Mediclius, Junoldo, Vidolium, Elfnote June Pride) once the Elfnote and Medius engine is live.; Recovery of Medius the Pure and Theorealized Medius via Theorealize and Power Patron searches, feeding Extra Deck summons.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Elfnote Lucina or Regina, search Elfnote monsters and Continuous Spells, then extend into Power Patron Link and Synchro summons. Relies on Extra Deck Link and Synchro material from the Main Deck.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Skull Meister, Infinite Impermanence and Droll & Lock Bird to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Medius and Elfnote searches.
• Recovery: Medius the Pure GY revival, Theorealize Past Lull, and Elfnotes: Welcome Home recycle monsters from the GY. Ghost Ogre and Effect Veiler provide interaction recovery.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has zero Side Deck cards, so no post-side plan exists in the list.

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal: seven copy-limit and banlist violations (including four Forbidden cards) mean it does not receive a normal Final Contextual score, and the figure above is a capped structural read only. Its engine is reasonably accessible: the Elfnote core is present in 29 copies, with a hypergeometric estimate of about 0.98 that at least one core card appears in a five-card opening hand, and 23 searcher-text cards support continuity. Interaction is the strongest area, with 18 hand traps and 15 negation-text cards giving layered answers to a going-second board. Consistency is capped by the absence of recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inference and the scores do not reflect any real board data. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged; the score reflects the system's engine, interaction and the penalty for the illegal list and empty side deck.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); No side deck (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(50) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 47; modifiers -12 gives 35; Illegal cap applied, final 25 (theoretical/structural-only, not a normal Final Contextual score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core Elfnote and Medius engine is accessible in the opening hand
• Layered hand-trap and negation coverage for going second
• Recursion through Medius, Theorealize and Welcome Home

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: copy limits and Forbidden cards must be fixed before it can be played
• No side deck
• Sprawling main deck with 68 off-archetype copies and 19 tech slots

Critical choke points

• Medius the Pure and Theorealize as the link between the Medius line and Extra Deck summons
• Elfnote Lucina and Regina as the Normal Summon entry point of the engine

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0; within size rules; Banlist violations: four Forbidden cards and three copy-limit overages; Core engine presence: 29 Elfnote/Power Patron-line cards, card text
• Inferred: P(at least one core card in 5) ≈ 0.98; Interaction density from 18 hand traps and 15 negation-text cards; Going-second hand-trap coverage
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup fit (D13)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck supplied; post-side plan cannot be evaluated