Chimera Deck #617353 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 30 / Extra 8 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion-summon Chimera the Illusion Beast (3100 ATK) or Berfomet / Chimera the King boss monsters from the Extra Deck, using Chimera Fusion and the Beast/Fiend/Illusion starters as material.; Tornado Dragon, Invader of Darkness and Radian (2800 ATK) as pressure and board control when Fusion lines are stopped.
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1: Normal Summon Gazelle, Cornfield Coatl or Mirror Swordknight, or Special Summon Nightmare Apprentice by discarding, to search Chimera Fusion or another Chimera card. Turn 2: Chimera Fusion into a Beast or Fiend boss.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Mirror Swordknight and Cornfield Coatl's battle protection and Nightmare Magician / Mirage Mirror Force style responses to stabilize, then convert the second-turn Fusion into a boss.
• Recovery: Searchers (Big-Winged Berfomet, Nightmare Apprentice, Crimson Gaia, Vision Resonator) and GY effects of Chimera Fusion, Cornfield Coatl and Gazelle rebuild the starter from the Deck or GY.
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no Side Deck in this export (Side Deck size 0).

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a live engine: four different 3-copy starters (Gazelle, Mirror Swordknight, Chimera Fusion, Cornfield Coatl) give roughly a 0.94 chance of at least one starter in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred hypergeometric), and 15 searcher-text cards provide redundant routes to the Fusion. Conversion is scored from the card text and the Extra Deck, not from recorded boards, because the export has no combos; the ceiling is credited for the Chimera Illusion Beast and the Berfomet / Chimera King bosses, while the median output is scored lower because there is no measured floor. Interaction is real but thin: Mirror Swordknight and Cornfield Coatl protect the board in battle, and the deck has Mirage Mirror Force, Cosmic Cyclone, Fiendish Golem and Forbidden Droplet, but zero hand traps. The score comes from consistency, redundancy and boss density on the system as a whole. It does not come from Chimera being a popular archetype, and it is not an average of the individual card scores. Four 1-copy Limited cards are legal and modestly lower the score, and about 18% exact-archetype purity with a spread across Mirror Trap, Kaiju, Resonator, Burning Abyss and Knightmare lowers it further.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*57.4 + 0.20*58 - 3 ≈ 54.5, rounded to 55

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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

• Four different 3-copy starters give redundant openings and a high at-least-one-starter rate
• Multiple searchers (Big-Winged Berfomet, Nightmare Apprentice, Crimson Gaia, Vision Resonator, Chimera Fusion) rebuild the engine
• Extra Deck bosses are high-ATK (Chimera Illusion Beast 3100, Invader 2900, Radian 2800)
• Battle-protection on Mirror Swordknight and Cornfield Coatl keeps boards alive

Weaknesses

• Zero hand traps and zero floodgates: weak against going-second boards and open Fusion disruption
• Low exact-archetype purity (18.4%) and mixed sub-archetypes suggest a loose engine
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median are unmeasured
• Four Limited single-copy cards and several off-plan techs reduce consistency

Critical choke points

• Chimera Fusion is the common link for most lines (3 copies); losing it to a single interaction removes the main Fusion route, although other starters remain
• Extra Deck boss access depends on Beast/Fiend/Illusion material being on field or in hand

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in duel-links; 30 main, 8 extra, 0 side within size rules; Restricted cards: Beatrice, Hallowed Life Barrier, Rainbow Life and Snapdragon at 1 copy each (Limited); Card text and ATK/DEF for all 27 distinct cards; Usage stat: Nightmare Apprentice and Mirror Swordknight are present at inclusion 100%
• Inferred: At-least-one-starter ≈ 0.94 in a 5-card opening hand (my hypergeometric calculation); Brick risk moderate given 12 singletons and several off-plan cards; Interaction density and going-second strength read from card text; Midrange primary strategy and Combo secondary, from the Fusion structure and searcher density
• Provisional: Meta Power (null; no dated meta sample); Matchup fit and Side Deck adaptability (Duel Links has no Side Deck in this export)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent usage statistics inconsistency: Chimera the King of Phantom Beasts (1769875) and Berfomet the Mythical King of Phantom Beasts (69601012) are marked in this deck=false, yet the cards list shows 2 copies of each in the Extra Deck; core-card presence (44) is probably understated no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; brick, starter and going-first/second rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied