Power Patron Deck #774543 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Power Patron boss monsters from the Extra Deck (Vidolium 5000 ATK, Nerva 3300 ATK, Psychic End Punisher 3500 ATK) after an Elfnote / Ars Magna / Medius engine line (Inferred); Recursion-driven Medius and Ars Magna follow-ups that rebuild the board after interaction (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with an Elfnote or Ars Magna starter, search the next engine piece, and Link or Synchro into a Power Patron boss; the hand traps are held for the opponent's turn (Inferred, no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Effect Veiler, Skull Meister, Kuriboh, Nibiru) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Medius and Theorealized Medius (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover from GY through Medius the Pure, Ars Magna banish-to-search effects, and Theorealize Past Lull (Inferred)
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; this is a structural gap, not a tested weakness (Verified)

Why it scores here

This score is built from the deck as a system, not from averaging card scores. The list is Illegal (Elfnote Lucina at 3 copies against 1 legal, Ash Blossom at 3 against 2 legal), so the final score is capped at 35 and this is a structural read only. The deck very likely opens a live Elfnote, Ars Magna, or Medius line: the archetype core group gives about a 96% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred). Its 16 hand traps give about an 86% chance of at least one in a going-second 6-card hand, which supports its going-second interaction (Inferred). Conversion and median output are unmeasured because there are no recorded boards, so those dimensions carry low confidence. Archetype popularity and the presence of Power Patron bosses earned no points on their own, and no meta or tournament data was used.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist and copy-limit exposure (-10). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(55) + ContextModifiers(-10) = 45, then capped at 35 because the list is Illegal (rubric Step 2: theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power is provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.04 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core engine access is high (about 96% to see an archetype-core card in a 5-card hand, Inferred)
• Strong going-second interaction from 16 hand traps (Inferred)
• Recursion and search density sustain card flow (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts for Elfnote Lucina and Ash Blossom
• Low exact-name purity (10.7%) across several sub-archetypes
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded boards, so combo ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Illegal list: must be corrected before any production score can be trusted
• Dependence on a single Medius/Ars Magna recursion line to rebuild after the first board is answered (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, with Elfnote Lucina at 3 vs 1 legal copy and Ash Blossom at 3 vs 2 legal copies; Side Deck has 0 cards; Main 60 and Extra 15 are within the size rules
• Inferred: Opening-hand access estimates from the hypergeometric table; Strategy classification and functional roles from card text; Going-second hand-trap coverage
• Provisional: Median output and combo ceiling (no recorded boards); Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: 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) exists for this deck Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck is false for several Extra cards that appear in the card list (Mediclius, Junora, June Pride, Galaxy-Eyes, Diactorus, Seraphim Strelitzia, Little Knight); the card list was used as the source of truth