D/D/D Deck #456904 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 22 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Multi-summon Extra Deck pressure: Fusion, Xyz and Synchro bosses (D/D/D High Genghis, Caesar, Siegfried, Hieratic) backed by D/D recursion through Necro Slime, Lamia and Genghis; Pendulum-scale board pressure with D/D Savant Thomas and Abyss King Ragnarok, plus Dark Contract damage
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Swirl Slime or Dark Contract with the Gate to reach a D/D starter, Fusion via Swirl Slime from hand, then hold Lamia or a negate-capable boss for the follow-up (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the two Effect Veiler hand traps to stop the opponent's first summon or effect, then rebuild from Gate or Thomas searches into a boss (Inferred from card text)
• Recovery: Recur D/D monsters from the Graveyard with Necro Slime, Lamia and the Genghis effects, and re-search with Gate and Thomas (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no sideboarding in practice; the side deck is empty (Side Deck size 0)

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reliably: the four 3-copy D/D staples and the 15 D/D copies in the main make at least one D/D starter very likely in an opening hand (about 0.56 for a 3-copy card on the play and 0.64 on the draw, Inferred). Its conversion comes from the Extra Deck, which carries several Fusion, Xyz and Synchro bosses that each negate or destroy and can recur D/D monsters, so it holds up through one disruption. The score comes from consistency, layered interaction and compact main-deck construction taken together on the system, not from the individual cards' scores. Archetype popularity earned no points, and the lack of recorded boards keeps the floor and median scores low-confidence. Side adaptability is scored low because the format has no meaningful post-side plan and the side deck is empty.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 67, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: engine compactness (2); off-archetype Extra-Deck dilution (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.56 · 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

• Consistent 3-copy starters (Swirl Slime, Gate, Kepler, Ragnarok) make a D/D starter likely in the opening hand
• Layered negation across the Extra Deck (Hieratic, Caesar, Siegfried, High Genghis) and 2 hand traps
• Compact main deck of 11 distinct cards with a near-full archetype core

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unverified
• Four off-archetype Extra-Deck cards dilute the engine
• Gate and Ragnarok LP costs add pressure on the player

Critical choke points

• Swirl Slime and Gate: the 3-copy engine starts depend on them, so losing both to hand disruption leaves a D/D search-less hand
• Hand traps (Veiler x2) are the only going-second answer to an early summon, so a dead Veiler hand weakens the draw

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal: 22 main, 9 extra, 0 side; all copies within legal copies; all restricted cards Unlimited; Card text and stats for all 19 distinct cards; Usage statistics list the D/D/D core cards and inclusion percentages
• Inferred: Starter probabilities 0.558 (5-card) and 0.636 (6-card) from the hypergeometric table; Interaction and recursion quality from card text; Combo ceiling and pressure from text, not recorded boards
• Provisional: Median output and the floor (no combos); Matchup and meta fit (no dated sample, no tournament link); Side adaptability (no side deck in use)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry in YGOVN; going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample usage statistics in this deck flags look main-deck-only: D/D/D Cursed King Siegfried and D/D/D Flame King Genghis are listed as missing even though the cards list runs them in the Extra Deck; the cards list was used as the source of truth deck title is null in the source record