Medius Deck #774573 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Medius the Pure / Theorealized Medius and Power Patron Link or Synchro boards (Vidolium 5000 ATK, Mediclius 3000 ATK) built through Ars Magna and Elfnote searches (Inferred from card text; no recorded combos); Elfnote Synchro and Elfnote Regina/Lucina beatdown boards, with Psychic End Punisher and Zalen as extra bodies (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher or Elfnote starter (about 99% chance of at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card hand, Inferred), search or Special Summon a Medius/Power Patron line, and protect it with Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler type interaction (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (about 91.5% chance of at least one, Inferred) to break the opponent's first combo line, then rebuild through Medius and Ars Magna recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recur Medius the Pure and Ars Magna from the GY and banish, then re-Link through Power Patron monsters (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: None: the export has an empty Side Deck, so no post-side plan exists in this list

Why it scores here

The score comes from the deck as a system, not from averaging its cards. The archetype core is reliably reachable (about 99% for at least one core card in a 5-card hand, Inferred), and a searcher-heavy engine with Medius, Ars Magna and Elfnote recursion gives the list several independent starts. Interaction is dense: 18 hand traps, Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler and Solemn effects give strong going-second disruption, and end-board pressure from Vidolium and Mediclius is real. The score is held down by three sub-archetypes running at only 4.2% exact-archetype purity, a missing combo record (median output is unknown), no Side Deck, and an Illegal list that breaks the copy limit on two cards. Popularity was not used: the archetype stats show the core is standard, and the list is not credited for that. The Illegal status caps the final score, so the number above is a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); no_side_deck (-4); legality_cap (0). Final formula: Lean formula: 0.80*Structural(57) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-10) = 45; Illegal cap applied, so final = 30 (theoretical/structural-only). Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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

• Core archetype reachable in almost every opening hand (Inferred)
• Dense hand-trap and negation text across 18 hand traps and 17 negation-text cards (Inferred)
• High closing power from Vidolium (5000 ATK) and Mediclius (3000 ATK) (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy-limit violations on Elfnote Lucina (3 vs 1) and Ash Blossom (3 vs 2)
• Three sub-archetypes with 4.2% exact-archetype purity, which causes engine conflict (Inferred)
• No Side Deck and no post-side plan
• No recorded combos, so floor and median output cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• Medius the Pure and Power Patron Link monsters must all be live for the main line, and the Extra Deck carries most of the payoff (Inferred)
• Going-first and going-second lines both depend on hand traps being drawn in the right hand (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0 counts and Tabular composition; Copy-limit violations: Elfnote Lucina 3 vs 1, Ash Blossom 3 vs 2; Banlist statuses for Limited and Semi-Limited cards; Card stats: Vidolium 5000 ATK, Mediclius 3000 ATK
• Inferred: Core accessibility P ~0.99 (hypergeometric); Going-second hand-trap P ~0.915; Interaction density and Going-second strength from card text; Pilotability from the number of sub-archetypes and interacting Quick Effects
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame); Floor and median combo output (no recorded boards)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta share and per-pilot record are absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null, so the identity rests on archetype and card text no Side Deck, so post-side behaviour is unevaluated