Medius Deck #774115 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: 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: Artmage / Power Patron board: Medius the Pure and Artmage Non-Finito or Nerva the Power Patron of Creation Fusion Summons, followed by Power Patron Link or Xyz pressure (Mediclius, Purification, Jupiter, Junora where present); Ars Magna and Theorealize resource chains that search and Special Summon Medius or Artmage pieces from Deck and GY
• Turn 1 (going first): Pendulum Treasure or Medius draw/search into Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis and Artmage Varnish, then a Fusion Summon with Artmage Power Patron or Medius, protected by Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Infinite Impermanence
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Kuriboh - Multiply!, Droll & Lock Bird and Infinite Impermanence to blank the first Quick Effect, then rebuild through Medius and Theorealize from the GY
• Recovery: Medius recursion from the GY, Theorealize Past Lull for a Fusion, Synchro or Xyz from the GY, and Artmage Litera or Finmel for a re-Summon
• After siding: Not evaluable: the export has no Side Deck (side_count 0)

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal as exported: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Super Polymerization are each run 3 times against a TCG limit of 2, so the Final Contextual score is capped and this result is theoretical/structural only. Its structure is reasonably consistent: about 89% of openings include at least one archetype-core card and about 95% include a searcher, and it runs 9 hand traps plus roughly 12 negation-text cards, which lifts interaction quality. Conversion is the weak point, because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences and the Artmage/Power Patron sub-archetype web is pilot-heavy. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype core presence is a usage signal, not evidence of strength, and no meta sample exists. The score comes from the system (access, resilience, interaction, Extra Deck coverage) and is not an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo 100% (Toolbox noted as secondary; no blend applied). Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); illegal_legality_cap (-7). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(53) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 50.4, then -8 banlist exposure modifier = 42.4, then Illegal legality cap to 35 (theoretical/structural only)

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

• Large searcher density (25 text searchers) makes the Medius/Artmage engine usually reachable on T1
• Nine hand traps and about twelve negation-text cards give multiple answers to first Quick Effects
• Extra Deck covers Fusion, Link, Xyz and Synchro access with Power Patron bosses

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts for two cards (Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization at 3 copies)
• Exact archetype purity is 4.1%; the engine is spread across six related sub-archetypes
• 21 singletons among 35 distinct main cards raise brick and dead-card risk
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Medius the Pure and Artmage Acropolis or Varnish as the T1 Fusion enabler
• Fusion Summon legality after Super Polymerization is cut to 2 copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Copy-limit violations: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 vs 2 legal; Super Polymerization 3 vs 2 legal; Main 58 and Extra 15 are within TCG size rules; Exact archetype purity 4.1%; Extra composition 6 Fusion / 6 Link / 2 Xyz / 1 Synchro
• Inferred: Core-access ≈ 0.89 and searcher access ≈ 0.95 from hypergeometric estimates; Interaction density from negation and removal text roles; Brick risk from 21 singletons and tech density; Going-first and going-second estimates from the Combo weight profile
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability (no tournament or win-rate data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record are absent No Side Deck in the export: post-side adaptability cannot be measured No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample