Rikka Deck #445072 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 28 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-4 Plant bosses (Benghalancer the Resurgent, Sunavalon Dryatrentiay) reached through chained Plant Link Summons; Sunavalon Bloom negates the opponent's monsters and gains ATK in battle once a Link-4 Plant is on the field
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Unexpected Dai or Sunseed Genius Loci, or search with Rikka Glamour, Mudan or Where Arf Thou?, then build a Plant chain into Link-3 or Link-4
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler and Sunvine Maiden to break the opponent's first plan, then re-route through Link Summons from the Extra Deck
• Recovery: Return Link monsters from the Graveyard with Sunavalon Daphne and Sunseed Twin, and revive Hellebore or Sunseed Genius Loci from the Graveyard
• After siding: Not applicable: the list carries no Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan to assess

Why it scores here

The deck opens into its Plant engine fairly often: six searcher-text cards give about a 73% chance of at least one searcher in a five-card opening hand, while Unexpected Dai and Sunseed Genius Loci each have about a 46% chance of appearing in that hand. Its strongest traits are layered interaction (Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler, Sunvine Maiden, Hellebore, Tytannial and Sunavalon Bloom) and several recursion routes, which lift the interruption, recovery and end-board scores. Converting into the Link-4 bosses is plausible but unmeasured, because no recorded boards exist for this list, so the ceiling and median rest on card text alone and carry lower confidence. Popularity earned no points: the archetype's usual field spell Rikka Konkon and several core Rikka monsters are absent, and the mix of Sunavalon, Sunvine and Sunseed sub-archetypes dilutes the shared engine. The score reflects the deck as a connected system, not an average of individual card ratings.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 56.8, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Key archetype card absent (-3); Engine conflicts across sub-archetypes (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*56.8 + 0.20*52 - 5 = 50.8

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.46 · 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

• Layered negation across hand traps, quick effects and the Link-4 Sunavalon Bloom
• Six searcher-text cards give frequent early access to the engine
• Recursion through Sunavalon Daphne, Sunseed Twin and Sunavalon Dryatrentiay gives a second route after disruption

Weaknesses

• Low archetype purity: only 6 of 37 main and extra copies carry the exact Rikka name
• The archetype's usual field spell Rikka Konkon and several core monsters are absent
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Unexpected Dai and Sunseed Genius Loci: each has only about a 46% chance to appear in the opening five cards
• Sunavalon Bloom needs a Link-4 Plant on the field before its negation applies
• Plant tribute costs stacked across Mudan, Lonefire Blossom, Snowdrop, Tytannial and Hellebore

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 28 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side within the Duel Links limits; One for One is Limited and runs 1 copy, within its limit; Exact Rikka name purity is 16.2%; 7 of 25 archetype core cards are present
• Inferred: Starter access probabilities for Unexpected Dai, Sunseed Genius Loci and searchers; Interaction density and going-second hand trap coverage; Ceiling and median output, from card text only
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit, since no dated metagame sample exists; Post-side adaptability, since no Side Deck is present
• Data gaps: No recorded boards exist for this deck, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and match records are absent No win-rate telemetry exists for going first, going second, matchups or brick rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck cards, so best-of-3 adaptability cannot be measured