Medius Deck #774088 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• 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: Medius the Pure and Power Patron link/synchro boards (Mediclius, Purification, Vidolium 5000 ATK) converting through Elfnote and Ars Magna board presence; Elfnote Lucina and Elfnote Regina pressure with Elfnote June Pride and Elfnote Seraphim Strelitzia as Extra Deck closers
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher/starter (Medius, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Elfnote Regina, Junoldo) and extend into Link or Synchro; hold Ash Blossom or Ghost Ogre for the first opponent response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Skull Meister, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence and Droll & Lock Bird to stop the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild a board from the hand
• Recovery: Recursion from GY via Ars Magna Philosophorum, Theorealize Past Lull and Medius GY effect; Mulcharmy draw effects refill hand after a hand-trap exchange
• After siding: Not available: the deck runs zero Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side adjustment

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a starter: the Medius/Power Patron core (30 copies, about 98% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand) and a 20-card searcher text group give it a live engine on turns 1-2 (Inferred). Its 18 hand traps (about 92% chance of at least one in a 6-card going-second hand, Inferred) let it contest the opponent's first summon or search, and the Extra Deck of Link and Synchro monsters gives it several board-closing options. The score is held down by two things: the deck is Illegal (three copies of Elfnote Lucina against a limit of one, three copies of Ash Blossom against a limit of two), and it is built across many sub-archetypes (archetype purity 4.3%), so engine cohesion is weaker than the card count suggests. No combo boards were recorded, so the ceiling and median are text-based inference only. Popularity and archetype usage were not counted as power, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (not used for weights: Midrange profile applied directly). Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 65, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(58) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) + context modifiers(-8) = 48, capped at 30 for an Illegal list; Meta Power provisional/null; theoretical/structural-only score

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

• Core archetype group is almost always present in an opening hand
• Large hand-trap package (18 cards) covers the first summon, the first search and the first activation
• Several boss-level Link and Synchro closers in the Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts for Elfnote Lucina and Ash Blossom
• Low archetype purity (4.3%) across many sub-archetypes
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• No combo data to confirm the ceiling

Critical choke points

• Medius the Pure as the main starter; the Power Patron links depend on it
• Ash Blossom and Elfnote Lucina copy limits must be fixed before the list can be scored normally

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, with copy-limit violations on Elfnote Lucina (3 vs 1) and Ash Blossom (3 vs 2); Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 are within the TCG size rules; Archetype purity 4.3%; 18 hand traps and 20 searcher-text cards in the Main Deck
• Inferred: Core archetype group open in 5-card hand about 98%; Hand-trap coverage of a going-second 6-card hand about 92%; Interaction density is high based on negation and removal text; Closing power from Vidolium and Power Patron link lines
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament data
• 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; going-first, going-second and matchup figures are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Side Deck is empty, so post-side adaptability cannot be measured