Ars Magna Deck #774208 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Power Patron Link/Synchro boards (Vidolium 5000 ATK, Junora 3100 ATK, Mediclius 3000 ATK) built through Medius/Theorealize searches and Ars Magna monster effects; Mulcharmy draw-and-pressure plus Nibiru/Galaxy-Eyes boards
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Medius the Pure or Theorealized Medius search of a Power Patron, then Link/Synchro into a Power Patron Link; hold Ash Blossom and Droll for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-trap the opponent's first summon or search (Ash x3, Nibiru, Artifact Lancea, Droll, Solemn), then rebuild through Medius recursion and Theorealize Overdrive
• Recovery: Medius and Ars Magna monsters recurse from the GY and banishment (Theorealize Overdrive, Philosophorum, Corruption and Purification); Mulcharmy draws off opponent summons
• After siding: Not evaluable: the export lists zero side cards, so no post-side plan exists in the submitted list

Why it scores here

The deck can usually open a searcher turn: about 93% of opening 5-card hands contain at least one of its 22 searcher-text cards, and the Medius/Theorealize search chain gives it a plausible route to a Power Patron Link. Its interaction density is high (9 hand-trap-tagged cards, 12 negation-text cards, 36 removal-text cards), which lifts end-board and going-second scores because about 68% of 6-card hands contain a hand trap. Its weak points are the lack of recorded boards (no combo floor, median, or ceiling is measurable), a 10% exact-archetype purity spread across several sub-archetypes (Power Patron, Medius, Theorealize, Artmage, Elfnote, Junk, Synchron, Galaxy-Eyes, Crystron), and a 15-card Extra Deck spread over unrelated summon routes. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype core is 44% present and no tournament data exists, and card scores were not averaged. The deck is illegal as submitted (3 copies of Semi-Limited Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring), so the final score is capped at 35 and the evaluation is structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51.4, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflicts (-5). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(51.4) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 50.1; modifiers -11 give 39.1; Illegal-status cap applied gives 35 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · 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

• Searcher density (22 searcher-text cards) gives high opening-hand access to the engine
• Layered interaction: 3 Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru, Artifact Lancea, Solemn Strike/Judgment, Forbidden Crown, Raigeki, Harpie's Feather Duster
• Recursion from the GY and banishment through Medius, Philosophorum and Theorealize Overdrive
• Multiple Extra Deck boss options (Junora, Mediclius, Zalen, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: 3 copies of a Semi-Limited card
• Exact-archetype purity is only 10%; the engine is spread across sub-archetypes
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• No combo data, so the ceiling and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Each Power Patron Link route depends on Medius or Theorealized Medius reaching the field, and each 3-copy engine card is only ~25% likely in an opening 5
• Ash Blossom at 3 copies is illegal, so the list must lose a copy before it can be played

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 55 cards, Extra Deck 15, Side 0; legal size range 40-60 main and 0-15 extra; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring run at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2 (Illegal); Copy histogram 18x1, 5x2, 9x3 totals 55; exact-name purity 7 of 70 non-token copies (10%)
• Inferred: P(>=1 searcher in hand5) ~0.93 and 3-copy starters ~0.25 each; Going-second hand-trap access ~0.68; Interaction layering and recursion read from card text; Power Patron bosses as the ceiling route
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample supplied); Matchup and format fit (no tournament data); Post-side plan (no side cards)
• 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 absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck has no title and no side deck No guides for the archetype