Ars Magna Deck #774206 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 38/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Power Patron / Elfnote Link and Synchro boards (Vidolium, Mediclius, Elfnote June Pride, Elfnote Seraphim Strelitzia) overwhelm the opponent's board; Ars Magna recursion and banish-based Fusion/Link summons from the GY and banishment (Medius, Theorealized Medius, Artmage Diactorus)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Elfnote / Power Patron searchers (Elfnote Regina, Elfnote Power Patron, Medius the Pure) and Ars Magna Spell/Trap searchers to reach a Link or Synchro board; hold Ash/Droll/Infinite Impermanence as protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru, Kuriboh) and Dominus Impulse to stop the opponent's summon, then rebuild through Medius / Theorealize lines
• Recovery: Banish-from-hand Ars Magna effects (Finite and Infinite, Corruption and Purification, Division and Union) and GY-based Elfnote / Medius revival to rebuild after a disruption
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck can reliably reach a live engine in the opening hand: about 94% of draws include at least one searcher-text card, and the Elfnote and Power Patron cores give several independent starters. Its interaction suite (12 hand traps, 12 negation-text cards, 22 removal-text cards) gives it real presence against a going-second opponent, with about 79% odds of at least one hand trap in a six-card hand. Its ceiling and median output cannot be measured because the export contains no recorded boards, so those scores rest on text reads and are Inferred. The list is spread across several sub-archetypes (only 7% of cards carry the exact Ars Magna name), which weakens engine cohesion and lowers pilotability. The deck is Illegal (three copy-limit violations and an Extra Deck of 16 against a maximum of 15), so the score is capped low and is structural-only. The score was not averaged from card scores, and popularity of the Ars Magna / Elfnote family earned no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Stun secondary (interaction-led). Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy limits and Extra Deck size (-8); Banlist exposure (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(51) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 49.8, Meta provisional, then context modifiers -12 = 37.8, rounded to 38 and treated as structural-only

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

• Near-certain searcher access in the opening hand
• Broad hand-trap and negation coverage for going second
• Multiple boss Link and Synchro threats with high ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: three copy-limit violations and an Extra Deck one card over the maximum
• Three to four engine families dilute cohesion (7% exact archetype purity)
• No Side Deck

Critical choke points

• Elfnote Lucina and Power Patron searchers as the main route into the Link/Synchro boards
• Ars Magna Spell/Trap searchers if the Elfnote core is disrupted before it lands

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 55 and Extra Deck 16 counts; Three copy-limit violations (Elfnote Lucina, Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse); Limited/Semi-Limited statuses for listed cards; Archetype purity 7% exact name; Hand-trap card count 12 and removal-text count 22
• Observed: Usage statistics: Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Ash Blossom, and Ars Magna the Corruption core inclusion 97-100%
• Inferred: Searcher access 0.94 in a 5-card hand; Hand-trap presence 0.79 going second; Interaction quality from card text; Engine cohesion and brick risk estimates
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo ceiling and median are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second and matchup rates unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck present, so post-side scoring is not evaluable