Ars Magna Deck #774090 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ars Magna / Power Patron Link and Synchro boards built from Elfnote and Ars Magna searches and Medius/Theorealize recursion (Inferred from card text); Synchro and Link beaters with ATK bonuses from Ars Magna effects (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a searcher plus Ars Magna or Elfnote starter; use Mulcharmy draw and hand traps to protect the first Link or Synchro (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler, Skull Meister, Ghost Ogre) to answer the opponent's first board, then extend through Extra Deck bosses (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover via Medius the Pure and Theorealize recursion from GY and banishment, and Power Patron Link re-summons (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This deck is Illegal: three Elfnote Lucina (limit 1) and three Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring (limit 2) exceed their copy limits, so it receives a capped score and the rest of the analysis is structural only. As a system it opens reasonably well: 19 searcher-text cards give an estimated 0.886 chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand, and the 15-card Extra Deck is fully used across Synchro, Link, Xyz and Fusion. Its interaction layer is the strongest part, with 18 hand-trap copies and 24 removal-text cards giving breadth on both going-first and going-second boards. The weaknesses are the 9.9% exact-name archetype purity (the list splits across Elfnote, Ars Magna, Mulcharmy and Power Patron), a high brick risk from dead hand traps when going first, and no combo records or side deck to support a ceiling or post-side claim. Popularity did not earn points, and the scores are not averages of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange 80 / Stun 20 (disclosed; Stun weights used only for interaction emphasis). Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*Structural(53) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) + ContextModifiers(-12) = 39; Illegal cap applied, final 30 (theoretical/structural only). Meta Power provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · 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 gives a high chance of a searcher in an opening hand
• Extra Deck is fully used across four summon types
• Hand-trap and removal coverage works on both turns

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Elfnote Lucina x3 (limit 1) and Ash Blossom x3 (limit 2)
• Exact archetype purity 9.9%, splitting across several sub-archetypes
• No Side Deck, so there is no best-of-3 adaptation
• No combo records to confirm a ceiling or floor

Critical choke points

• Legal copy counts for Elfnote Lucina and Ash Blossom must be fixed before any normal score applies
• Going-first hands can be dead against no opposing board because hand traps need targets

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Elfnote Lucina x3 over limit 1, Ash Blossom x3 over limit 2; Main 56 within 40-60, Extra 15 within 0-15, Side 0; Copy histogram 1:11, 2:6, 3:11 sums to 56 main cards; Extra Deck split: 8 Synchro, 5 Link, 1 Xyz, 1 Fusion
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand odds for starters, searchers and hand traps; Structural dimension scores from card text; Going-first and going-second power from dimension blends; Strategy classification from card text and composition
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup and format fit (D13); Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: Illegal list: score is capped and treated as theoretical/structural only No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference usage statistics in this deck flags conflict with the cards list: Purification Power Patron, S:P Little Knight, Mediclius, Artmage Diactorus, Number 90: Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord, Elfnote June Pride and Elfnote Seraphim Strelitzia are in the Extra zone but flagged as absent, so missing core cards is unreliable No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred No Side Deck; no post-side plan can be scored Meta Power provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied