Medius Deck #774025 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Power Patron / Medius-driven link and synchro pressure off the Extra Deck, with Elfnote and Ars Magna supporting bodies (Inferred from card text and archetype spread; no combos recorded); Extra Deck boss monsters such as Vidolium (5000 ATK via Pendulum Zone) and Mediclius (3000 ATK Link)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Elfnote/Medius searchers and Pendulum Treasure, then Link or Synchro Summon into a Power Patron boss (Inferred from text; unverified)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold up Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Skull Meister, Ghost Ogre and Infinite Impermanence to answer the opponent's first summon, then convert through the Extra Deck (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through Ars Magna searchers, Theorealize and Medius recursion from the GY (Inferred from text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck list has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck's core archetype cards are almost always accessible: P(at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.98 (hypergeometric, Inferred), and 25 searcher-text cards and 15 hand traps give it a redundant way to start and to answer the opponent's first play. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: 17 negation-text and 23 removal-text cards, plus hand-trap density, earn credit on the end-board and going-second dimensions. Consistency and pressure are held back by a heavy tech and brick-prone component (17 level-0 Spell/Trap cards and 15 tech cards in 55 Main Deck slots), and by the absence of any recorded combo boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inference. Popularity and archetype usage stats confirm the list is real, but they did not earn points. The deck is Illegal (three copy-limit violations), so the score is capped as a theoretical, structural-only read, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); illegal_cap (-18). Final formula: Illegal list: theoretical structural-only. Structural 54.1 and Tournament Reliability 52 give 0.80*54.1 + 0.20*52 = 53.7 before the illegality cap; the final score is capped at 35 because the deck fails copy limits. Meta Power is null (Provisional).

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

• Archetype core is almost always accessible (Inferred)
• Broad negation and removal density across Main Deck and Extra Deck (Inferred from text)
• Large hand-trap package for going second (Inferred)
• Extra Deck has bosses with high ATK and Link-based pressure (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Three copy-limit violations make the list illegal as built
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Heavy tech and level-0 Spell/Trap count raises brick risk (Inferred)
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Each Power Patron boss depends on a Pendulum Treasure or Medius search to reach the Extra Deck
• Three 3-copy engine cards each reduce variety when drawn together

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Elfnote Lucina 3 run vs 1 legal, Ash Blossom 3 run vs 2 legal, Dominus Impulse 3 run vs 2 legal; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 (size rules pass); Archetype purity: exact name 4.3%, spread across Elfnote, Ars Magna, Power Patron and Artmage; Extra Deck: 8 Synchro, 4 Link, 2 Fusion, 1 Xyz
• Observed: No recorded boards exist to observe
• Inferred: Archetype core accessibility about 0.98 from hypergeometric draw; Interaction density from text tags (17 negation, 23 removal); Brick risk from level-0 Spell/Trap and tech count; Going-second hand-trap coverage about 0.87
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup rates are Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no Side Deck supplied, so post-side performance cannot be evaluated