Other Deck #599402 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 18/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 20 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Synchro/Link beatsticks (Golden Cloud Beast - Malong, Elder Entity N'tss, Darklord Ixchel, Fossil Warrior Skull Knight) once a Sky Striker removal or searcher line produces a board; no single reliable closer is evidenced.; Sky Striker Maneuver removal (Afterburners!, Jamming Waves!) clearing blockers for direct or follow-up attacks.
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Mobilize - Engage! or Preparation of Rites, then Sky Striker Mecha - Eagle Booster or Afterburners! to clear a monster, with the rest of the hand as follow-up. Real starter density is low because Garma Sword and Preparation of Rites have no Ritual Spell in the list.
• Turn 2 (going second): Forbidden Droplet is the only true response card in the list (no hand traps), so going second relies on a Sky Striker removal spell to clear the first board and a searcher for follow-up.
• Recovery: Searcher density (7 cards) provides redundancy after one broken hand, but the search targets are mostly archetype pieces that the deck does not fully run.
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links decks carry no side deck in this list (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its five archetype families (Sky Striker, Darklord, Fossil, Herald, Tri-Brigade) do not converge on one engine, and the archetype purity is 0%. Several main-deck and Extra-Deck pieces are unreachable from this list: Garma Sword and Preparation of Rites need a Ritual Spell that the list does not contain, and the three Great Double Casted Caster plus Fossil Warrior Skull Knight and Fossil Machine Skull Wagon need a Fusion Spell or Fossil Fusion that is absent. The searcher density (7 cards, about 0.92 probability of at least one in a 5-card hand) and the Sky Striker removal spells give a real floor for going first, which keeps the deck above a bare brick score. The list is illegal (Hallowed Life Barrier at 2 copies against a limit of 1), so the score is capped and treated as theoretical. No combo boards, tournament data or usable guide matches were supplied, so the ceiling and meta read remain Inferred or Provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 31.5, Going First ≈ 28, Going Second ≈ 24, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 25. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (copy-limit violation) (-6); Hard garnet burden (no Ritual Spell) (-3); Engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional), then capped for an Illegal list: 0.80*31.5 + 0.20*25 = 30.2, plus modifiers -12 = 18

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.6 · 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

• Seven searchers give about 0.92 probability of at least one search in a 5-card opening hand.
• Fourteen Spells support the Sky Striker graveyard-spell conditions and the recovery loop.
• Two Sky Striker Maneuver removal spells plus Forbidden Droplet give some interaction.
• Extra Deck contains several 1700 to 2500 ATK beaters across Fusion, Synchro and Link.

Weaknesses

• The list is Illegal: Hallowed Life Barrier is over the copy limit (2 run, 1 allowed).
• Garma Sword x3 and Preparation of Rites x3 have no Ritual Spell in the list, so they are likely dead.
• Great Double Casted Caster x3, Fossil Warrior Skull Knight and Fossil Machine Skull Wagon lack a Fusion Spell or Fossil Fusion in the list.
• Five archetype families with 0% exact-name purity produce no single coherent engine.
• No hand traps and no floodgates.

Critical choke points

• No Ritual Spell (Garma Sword Oath is absent), so the Ritual line cannot start.
• No Fusion Spell or Fossil Fusion, so the Fusion Extra-Deck monsters cannot be summoned.
• The Darklord engine has only Darklord Ixchel and Banishment of the Darklords.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 20 and Extra 9, both within Duel Links size rules (main 20-30, extra 0-9).; Hallowed Life Barrier runs 2 copies against a Limited banlist status with 1 legal copy.; No Ritual Spell is present in the card list; Garma Sword Oath is named only in Garma Sword's text.; Fossil Fusion is named in the text of Fossil Warrior Skull Knight and Fossil Machine Skull Wagon, and no Fossil Fusion card is in the list.; Archetype exact-name purity is 0%; spread is Sky Striker 8, Darklord 2, Fossil 2, Herald 1, Tri-Brigade 1, generic 14, Forbidden 1.
• Observed: No recorded boards exist (combos_evidence total 0), so no measured floor, median or ceiling is available.
• Inferred: Starter reliability is about 0.60 per 3-copy card in a 5-card hand (hypergeometric estimate).; Garma Sword and Preparation of Rites are mostly dead without a Ritual Spell.; Interaction quality and the going-second plan are estimated from card text, not from play data.; Confidence is Low because the list is illegal, combos are absent and the usage statistics are for a different archetype.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample was supplied.; Matchup fit (D13) and tournament reliability are provisional.
• 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 usage_statistics core cards belong to Dark World (Snoww, Broww, Anchamoufrite and others), which this deck does not run (1 of 13 present); they are not used as evidence for this list guides attached are for Therion and P.U.N.K, not this deck's cards; treated as context only no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for this deck Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied list has no Ritual Spell or Fusion Spell, so the Ritual and Fusion lines cannot be verified as reachable