Artmage Deck #774111 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 43 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Power Patron Link and Xyz beatdown (Vidolium 5000 ATK pendulum, Gustav Rocket 5000 ATK Xyz) converting a board the hand traps and negations have cleared; Ars Magna and Theorealize recursion into Medius-based Fusion and Link extenders
• Turn 1 (going first): Pendulum Treasure or Medius search into a Power Patron Pendulum with Vidolium or Nervedo, then pivot to a Link or Xyz extender; hold Infinite Impermanence and Ash for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Open a hand trap (Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Ash, Infinite Impermanence) on the opponent's first summon, then rebuild a board from a Pendulum or Medius search
• Recovery: Theorealize Past Lull and Theorealize Overdrive re-summon Medius from the GY or banishment, and Ars Magna monsters recur Fusion and Link material
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot change its hand-trap or floodgate density between games

Why it scores here

This list is scored as a system and not from its cards. Its 43-card main is reliable at finding a searcher (about 0.96 for at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card hand) and it has 12 hand traps, which gives it dense interaction on both turn orders. Its engine is fragmented: only 6 of 58 cards carry the exact Artmage name, the rest split across Power Patron, Ars Magna, Medius, Theorealize and DoomZ, so turn-1 lines are less repeatable than the searcher numbers suggest. There are no recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inferences and are not treated as measured output. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage stats confirm the family is real but were not used to raise any score. The deck is Illegal because Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse exceed their Semi-Limited copy limit, so the final score is capped as a structural-only read, and it has no side deck, which leaves D12 at its floor.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 48.4, Going First ≈ 44, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Copy-limit violation (banlist exposure) (-8); Engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); Illegal deck, so the result is capped as structural-only: 0.80*48.4 + 0.20*40 - 12 = 34.7, rounded to 35

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• Dense interaction: 12 hand traps and 15 negation-text cards cover both turn orders
• Searcher density gives high at-least-one access to an engine piece
• Two 5000-ATK finishers (Vidolium, Gustav Rocket) and a broad Extra Deck with Link, Xyz and Fusion coverage

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: two Semi-Limited cards over the copy limit
• Fragmented engine: 10.3 percent exact-name purity across five sub-archetypes
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Heavy dependence on Pendulum-zone and Extra-Deck pieces, which raises brick and conflict risk

Critical choke points

• Pendulum Power Patron monsters must be in the Pendulum Zone before the Link or Xyz extender can be reached
• Gustav Max is Limited (1 copy) and is the only route to Gustav Rocket, so losing it removes the Xyz line
• Dominus Impulse and Ash are over the copy limit, so the list must be cut before it can be played in a sanctioned event

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2; Main 43 and Extra 15 are within the TCG size rules; Side 0 is legal; Droll and Lock Bird, Prohibited Power Patron Portal, S:P Little Knight and Gustav Max are Limited at 1 copy each and within limit; Copy histogram: 14 singles, 4 doubles, 7 triples; 12 hand traps; Searcher-text group 19 cards; hypergeometric figures from the evidence
• Observed: Usage stats show the Artmage core is common in the archetype (inclusion 85 to 100 percent for the listed core cards)
• Inferred: Brick and conflict risk from Pendulum, Link and Xyz dependence; Going-first and going-second splits from hand-trap probability and text roles; Board-breaking and closing power from text only
• Provisional: Meta Power: no dated metagame sample; Matchup fit (D13): no tournament link or dated sample
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry exists for this deck; brick, starter and matchup rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Data conflict: usage statistics marks Artmage Diactorus, Predaplant Dragostapelia, Junora, Purification Power Patron, Beyond the Pendulum, S:P Little Knight, Nerva and Artmage Non-Finito as not in this deck, but the cards list shows all of them as Extra-Deck copies of 1. The missing core cards list is therefore unreliable for the Extra Deck, and the core-group probability is not used for scoring. Data artifact: Shade the Obscure has archetype "| supports_archetypes Power Patron", a parsing error in the source data that does not change its function here