Artmage Deck #774113 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Link Summon Power Patron / Artmage boss monsters (Nerva, Jupiter, Vidolium, Mediclius) from the Extra Deck and attack through a board the opponent cannot easily clear.; Artmage Diactorus and Ars Magna lines that negate or banish through Artmage Fusion/Link material chains.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Artmage Power Patron or Medius the Pure with a searcher (Pendulum Treasure, Artmage Vandalism, Theorealize Liberation, Junoldo) and begin Fusion or Link Summon through Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Kuriboh - Multiply! and Droll & Lock Bird to stop the opponent's first engine, then rebuild with Artmage Litera or Nervedo.
• Recovery: Recursion from the GY through Theorealize Past Lull, Artmage Litera, Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws and Medius Special Summons from the GY.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in TCG as built (3 copies each of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Super Polymerization, both Semi-Limited), so it receives a capped, theoretical/structural-only score rather than a normal Final Contextual score. Within that structural read, the deck reliably opens a functional Artmage starter: the archetype-core proxy gives about 0.95 chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and it has 9 hand traps plus Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Infinite Impermanence for interruption. Conversion into Fusion and Link boards is plausible from the text, but no recorded boards exist, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inference. The deck has no Side Deck, so its post-side plan scores very low. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and the card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + ContextModifiers(-8) = 45; Illegal-deck cap applied → 30. Theoretical/structural-only, not a normal Final Contextual score.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Artmage starter density with multiple searchers reaches the core engine on most openings.
• Layered hand traps and negations (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Kuriboh, Droll) give strong going-second interaction.
• Extra Deck closers have high ATK and several independent Fusion and Link routes.
• Recursion through Theorealize Past Lull, Artmage Litera and Mulcharmy Fuwalos gives recovery after one interruption.

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: 3 copies each of Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization exceed the Semi-Limited limit.
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.
• Broad engine with 12 tech and several niche sub-archetype cards dilutes consistency.
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be verified.

Critical choke points

• Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis and Artmage Power Patron are the main starter lines; losing both to a hand trap or Droll stalls the engine.
• Legal list requires cutting one Ash Blossom and one Super Polymerization before any normal score applies.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Super Polymerization are over the Semi-Limited copy limit (3 vs 2).; Main 58, Extra 15, Side 0; Main size inside 40–60.; Deck has no Side Deck.
• Inferred: Archetype-core proxy P(≥1 in hand5) ≈ 0.95.; Hand-trap coverage going second ≈ 0.65.; Recovery routes from recursion and searchers.
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit (no dated meta sample).
• Data gaps: Illegal list: the score is capped and theoretical/structural-only. No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent. usage_statistics.in_this_deck flags conflict with the cards list: Diactorus, Predaplant Dragostapelia, Junora, Nerva, S:P Little Knight, Purification Power Patron, Beyond the Pendulum and Artmage Non-Finito are listed as in the Extra Deck in cards but flagged in_this_deck:false in core_cards/missing_core. The missing_core and core_present_pct values are therefore unreliable. No win-rate telemetry exists; brick, starter and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied.