Archfiend Deck #409013 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 39/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 20 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Archfiend Empress (2900 ATK) or Invoked Mechaba (2500 ATK) / Full Armored Utopic Ray Lancer (2500 ATK) as the closing boss, reached through Archfiend and Invoked summons; Invoked Augoeides and Invoked Caliga as disruption-heavy fusion finishers via Aleister the Invoker plus Invocation
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Aleister the Invoker or Tour Guide From the Underworld, use Archfiend Heiress and Invocation to reach an Invoked Fusion, and keep Ice Dragon's Prison or Eccentrick for interaction. Only about 1 in 4 opening hands contain Invocation, so the plan often has no fusion route on turn 1
• Turn 2 (going second): Tour Guide negation and Invoked Mechaba/Caliga as the main interaction, with Archfiend Heiress and Call of the Archfiend recovering from the graveyard. Six-card hands have a higher Invocation hit rate (about 30%) but the core still depends on single copies
• Recovery: Archfiend Heiress GY searches (2 copies), Call of the Archfiend revival of a Level 5+ Fiend, and Archfiend Empress GY revival keep some resources after a clear, but the deck has no dedicated recursion engine for Invocation
• After siding: No side deck in the export (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan. Duel Links deployments normally use the same 20-card list every game

Why it scores here

The deck reliably gets one starter (Aleister the Invoker, about 60% in a 5-card opening hand) and has enough searchers (6 text hits, about 87% for at least one in an opening hand) to keep the first turn moving. Its conversion is limited: the Invoked fusion route needs the single copy of Invocation and an Aleister, which is only about 13% in a going-first opening, so most games do not reach the strong boards. Interaction is spread across Ice Dragon's Prison, Tour Guide negation, Invoked Mechaba and Invoked Augoeides, which gives a fair end-board score, but a mixed set of archetypes and a self-destructing Farfa lower consistency. Popularity and archetype naming earned no points, and no card scores were averaged: the score comes from the system's access, brick risk, interaction and closing power, with no combo or matchup data to lift it.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 47.1, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 46, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Unrecoverable choke point (-3); Engine conflict (-2); No side deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*47.1 + 0.20*42 = 46.1; modifiers -7 = 39

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.6 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.13 · 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

• Legal 20/9/0 list with no copy-limit or banlist issues
• Six searcher hits (Heiress x2, Aleister, Invocation, Artemis, Dante) give opening-hand access
• Layered interaction: Ice Dragon's Prison, Tour Guide negation x2, Mechaba, Augoeides, Caliga
• High-ATK closers: Archfiend Empress 2900, Mechaba 2500, Utopic Ray Lancer 2500

Weaknesses

• No combo evidence, so the ceiling and median are text-only estimates
• Only 31% exact archetype purity; the list mixes Archfiend, Invoked, Burning Abyss, Knightmare, Magistus and Utopic
• Invocation is a single copy and is required for every Invoked Fusion
• Farfa conflicts with the rest of the deck
• Usage stats are largely off-archetype (3 of 25 core cards present), so they cannot confirm the list is standard

Critical choke points

• Invocation (1 copy): about 25% in a going-first opening, and the Invoked Fusion route fails without it
• Aleister (3 copies) as the required fusion material for Invoked Caliga, Mechaba and Augoeides

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal 20 main / 9 extra / 0 side in Duel Links, no violations; All 29 cards resolved; card text and copy counts match the export; Exact archetype purity 31%; Archfiend 9, Invoked 7, generic 6, other 8; Aleister P(at least one in 5-card hand) = 0.6009; Invocation P = 0.25
• Inferred: Invoked fusion route depends on Invocation plus Aleister: about 13% going first, about 19% going second; Interaction and consistency scores from text only; Recovery via Heiress and Call of the Archfiend
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated meta sample); Matchup fit and format standing (no tournament context)
• 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 and brick rates unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage statistics core list is largely off-archetype (3 of 25 present); it may mismatch the Archfiend archetype mapping Deck title is null; archetype label taken from the export