Dragonmaid Deck #505133 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 24 / Extra 5 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Battle Phase beatdown with 2600 to 3500 ATK Dragons, backed by Fusion Summons through Dragonmaid Changeover and House Dragonmaid.; Two-card Parlor Dragonmaid plus Chamber Dragonmaid line that fills the board with end-of-turn monsters.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dragon starter (Laundry, Lorpar, Parlor, Nurse), Normal Summon it, then bounce it in the Battle Phase to Special Summon a Level 7 or 8 Dragonmaid from hand or GY, and extend into a Fusion.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the same Battle Phase bounce loop to rebuild the board after the opponent's turn, with Lorpar's effect lock and Dragonmaid Tidying's bounce as interaction. Keep Extra Deck Fusions for the next turn.
• Recovery: Dragonmaid Welcome, Chamber Dragonmaid and Dragonmaid Changeover return cards from the GY to hand, and Dragonmaid Hospitality can Special Summon from the GY.
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no side deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reliably: each of its three 3-copy Dragon starters has roughly a 52% chance to appear in an opening five, and at least one archetype core card is present in about 90% of opening hands. Its Battle Phase bounce-and-revive loop lets the same starters be reused across turns, which supports recovery after disruption. Conversion is the weak point: only two recorded boards exist, both built through Parlor Dragonmaid, and the interaction density averages one per board with no hand traps or set backrow. Closing power is the strongest part of the system, with several large Dragons and a 3500 ATK Fusion. Popularity of the archetype and its usage statistics confirm the list is real and accessible but earned no points, and the score was not built from averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 57, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Dead Ritual monster (-2); Engine compactness (1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural (meta-neutral, D13 dropped and weights renormalized over 95) + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional), then modifiers

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.52 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.1 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex 68, median 58.5, board-per-starter 2.5
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Three 3-copy Dragon starters with a battle-phase bounce loop that revives Level 7 and 8 Dragonmaids from hand or GY
• About 90% of opening hands contain at least one archetype core card, so the engine usually starts
• Large Dragon bodies (2600 to 3500 ATK) give strong closing power and a Fusion route through Changeover
• Compact list: 89.7% exact-name archetype purity and no off-plan splash beyond the Knightmare Links and Sauravis

Weaknesses

• Dragonmaid Sauravis is a Ritual monster with no Ritual spell in the list and is a dead draw
• Almost no interaction: no hand traps, no floodgates, and about one interaction effect per recorded board
• Only 2 recorded boards, both through Parlor Dragonmaid, so the ceiling and median rest on a very small sample
• Only 4 of 17 archetype-standard cards are in the usage table, consistent with a budget build but less proven

Critical choke points

• Parlor Dragonmaid appears in both recorded lines, so losing all three copies removes the only observed starter
• Without interaction on going second, a single disruption on the opponent's turn can stop the Battle Phase loop

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Duel Links: 24 Main, 5 Extra, 0 Side, all cards Unlimited, copy limits respected; Exact-name archetype purity 89.7%; Power and ATK values for Lorpar, Tinkhec, House Dragonmaid and Sheou; Sauravis is a Ritual monster and no Ritual spell is in the list
• Observed: Best recorded line power 68; median 58.5; range 49 to 68 over 2 boards; Average of 1 interaction effect per recorded board; Average of 3 cards in the GY after recorded lines
• Inferred: Starter access ≈ 0.52 per 3-copy card; archetype core ≈ 0.90 in opening five; Full-brick estimate ≈ 0.10; Battle Phase loop provides recursion and recovery
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and side-deck value (no tournament record; Duel Links has no side)
• Data gaps: Only 2 recorded boards, both of unknown gameplay, so the sample is too thin for stable floor and ceiling estimates No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups, or brick and starter rates Usage table marks Dragonmaid Sheou as not in this deck, but the card list includes it (1 copy, Extra); treated as present, and this should be reconciled Duel Links has no side deck, so side adaptability cannot be measured Guide snippets are short and give no section-level detail on the intended line