Ars Magna Deck #774135 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Power Patron Link and Fusion boards that convert into 5000-ATK or 3000-ATK attackers (Vidolium, Gustav Rocket, Nerva, Junora) through Artmage and Medius recursion (Inferred from card text); Direct damage from Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max and Gustav Rocket material detach effects (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Medius, Pendulum Treasure or Artmage Varnish searchers, summon Medius or Power Patron Fusion/Link material, and protect with Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre (Inferred, no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Lock Bird) plus Solemn Judgment and Harpie's Feather Duster to answer the opponent's board, then rebuild through Theorealize and Medius (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recursion from GY through Theorealized Medius, Ars Magna Philosophorum and Artmage Impasto, plus Mulcharmy draw engines (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal because it runs three copies of Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring against a Semi-Limited limit of two, so it receives a capped, structural-only score of 35 rather than a normal contextual score. Inside that cap, the structural read (about 49) comes from the 14 dimensions scored on the system: the Medius, Power Patron and Artmage searchers give high P(at least one starter) (about 0.95 for the archetype core group, Inferred), and the hand-trap and Limited-card suite gives reasonable end-board interaction. Floor and median output are scored low because the deck has no recorded boards to support them, and the 0 side cards leave best-of-3 adaptation unscored. Archetype popularity in the usage statistics confirms the list is a real, accessible build but did not earn any points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Copy-limit violation (-10); No side deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(49) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + ContextModifiers(-12) = 35, structural-only, not a normal contextual score

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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 searcher and starter access through Medius, Theorealize, Pendulum Treasure and Artmage cards
• Broad hand-trap and Limited-card interaction covering spells, monsters and face-up effects
• High-ATK closers in the Extra Deck (Vidolium 5000 ATK, Gustav Rocket 5000 ATK)

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring is over its copy limit
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Loose archetype purity (8.5% exact-name) with many off-archetype and tech cards
• No recorded boards to confirm the combo ceiling or median output

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring over-limit copy must be fixed before any normal score applies
• Medius and Theorealize chain as the main engine starter route
• Limited single-copy cards (Harpie's Feather Duster, Solemn Judgment, Prohibited Power Patron Portal - Terminus, Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max) are each one-of dependencies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 sizes are within the tcg size rules; Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring run at 3 copies, over its Semi-Limited limit of 2 (status Illegal); All other restricted cards (Droll and Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster, Prohibited Power Patron Portal - Terminus, S:P Little Knight, Solemn Judgment, Gustav Max) are run at or under their Limited limit of 1; Card stats such as Vidolium 5000 ATK and Gustav Rocket 5000 ATK
• Observed: Archetype usage data shows core cards (Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Ash Blossom, Ars Magna the Corruption and the Purification) in 97-100% of builds
• Inferred: Starter probabilities (about 0.95 archetype core in 5, 0.92 searcher in 5) are hypergeometric estimates from the Main Deck; Strategy and role classification comes from card text and composition; Structural weights and dimension scores are the evaluator's judgement from text and composition
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13) need a dated metagame sample; Tournament reliability depends on untested post-side and brick assumptions
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so meta-share and per-pilot records are absent No win-rate telemetry exists for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rate Deck title is null No side deck, so post-side performance is unscored Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied