Artmage Deck #774654 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion/Link/Xyz boss summons (Artmage Non-Finito is absent; Mediclius, Nerva, Gustav Rocket, Diactorus and Artmage Finmel-based boards carry the closing plan); Power Patron Link and Ars Magna recursion chains, with Gustav Rocket 5000 ATK as a single-copy finisher
• Turn 1 (going first): Starter from Artmage Vandalism / Pendulum Treasure / Medius into Artmage Power Patron or Nervedo, then Fusion or Link Summon through Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis, protected by Artmage Pact and Impasto
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird and Kuriboh to break the opponent's first line, then rebuild through Ars Magna and Power Patron recursion
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Theorealize Past Lull recycle Medius and Power Patron monsters from the GY into fresh Fusion and Link lines
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: its ability to open a live Artmage or Power Patron starter, convert it into Fusion and Link boards, and keep interaction (9 hand traps, 17 negation texts, 30 removal texts) running through disruption. Consistency is held back by low exact-archetype purity (15 of 58 main cards are named Artmage, 20.5%) and a spread of off-archetype engines (Pendulum, Kuriboh, Mulcharmy, Greed, Medius, Ars Magna), which raises brick risk and conflicting Normal Summon and Pendulum lines. Archetype popularity (68% of core cards present, 94.7% of listed core cards in the archetype stats) confirms the list is real and accessible but earns no points on its own, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score. The deck is Illegal: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization run 3 copies against a limit of 2, so the score is capped at 30 and labelled structural-only; it has no Side Deck and no combos or tournament data, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-inferred.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); engine_conflicts (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 52; modifiers -10 = 42; Illegal cap applied = 30

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

• 9 hand traps plus 30 removal and 17 negation texts give broad interaction
• Strong Extra Deck closers (Gustav Rocket 5000 ATK, Nerva 3300, Diactorus 2800) with flexible Fusion, Link and Xyz access
• High going-second hand-trap coverage (65% at least one in six cards)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two cards over the Semi-Limited copy limit
• Low exact-archetype purity (20.5%) with several competing sub-engines
• No Side Deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• No recorded combos or tournament data to validate the line

Critical choke points

• Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis and Artmage Varnish for the Artmage access line
• Single-copy Gustav Rocket and Nerva as closers with no second route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 58, Extra 15, Side 0 against the TCG size rules; Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies, legal limit 2 (Semi-Limited); Exact-archetype purity 20.5% and core presence 68%
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.93 (hypergeometric); Going-second hand-trap coverage 0.65; Interaction density from card text (17 negation, 30 removal)
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample supplied; Matchup fit is provisional
• 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 and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck, so post-side adaptability cannot be assessed deck.title is null, so the deck name is unavailable