Dinos Deck #660708 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dinosaur bosses such as Ultimate Conductor Tyranno, Overtex Qoatlus, Giant Rex and Nibiru, reached through Graveyard and banished-Dinosaur resources; Xyz and Link monsters (Evolzar Laggia, Evolzar Dolkka, Underworld Goddess) that hold the end board with negation and removal
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Fossil Dig or Animadorned Archosaur, then use Souleating Oviraptor or Babycerasaurus to fill the Graveyard for Double Evolution Pill or a Tyranno Special Summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Answer the opponent's first play with Effect Veiler, Ghost Belle or Nibiru, then rebuild through searches and Link or Xyz summons
• Recovery: Recursion from destroyed Babycerasaurus and Petiteranodon, plus Dinosaur resources in the Graveyard, to re-enable Double Evolution Pill or Giant Rex
• After siding: Not applicable: no Side Deck is registered, so there is no sideboarding step in this Duel Links list

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens with its search and Dinosaur-recursion engine: nine searcher effects and the core Dinosaur monsters are in hand often enough to make a functional T1 play most games. Its conversion ceiling comes from large Dinosaur bosses (Ultimate Conductor Tyranno, Overtex Qoatlus, Nibiru) that are summoned from the Graveyard or banished resources, and interaction is layered through three hand traps, several negation effects on Xyz and Link monsters, and Effect Veiler. No recorded boards were available, so median output and ceiling are text-based inference and are kept moderate. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points; the score comes from the deck's consistency, interaction and closing power as a system, not from averaging the individual card scores. Going second is weaker because the three hand traps are single copies and hold only about half the time in a six-card hand.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 57, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: No Side Deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.43 · 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

• Nine searcher effects and three-copy starters give reliable T1 access to the engine
• Multiple Dinosaur bosses with high ATK provide strong closing power
• Interaction is layered: three hand traps, Effect Veiler, and negation on Xyz and Link monsters
• Compact 30-card Main Deck with a consistent copy profile

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-game adaptation
• Single-copy hand traps hold only about half the time going second
• Heavy dependence on Dinosaur-type cards in Graveyard and banished zones for its bosses
• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are inferred rather than measured

Critical choke points

• Graveyard Dinosaur count for Double Evolution Pill and Tyranno summons
• Banished Dinosaurs needed for Overtex Qoatlus and Giant Rex
• Single-copy hand traps (Nibiru, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler) are the only fast interaction going second

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal: 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side, no banned or limited cards; Copy counts and card text were read from the resolved list; Nine searcher effects and three hand traps are in the Main Deck; Dino Awakening guide mentions setting up the Graveyard for Double Evolution Pill
• Observed: Usage data shows the Dinosaur core and several Dinosaur bosses are standard for the archetype; Guide snippets describe the deck as Dinosaur-based and self-sufficient
• Inferred: Three-copy starters are about 43% in a 5-card opening hand; Search access is about 86% in opening hands; Going-second hand trap access is about 50%; Dinosaur banish and Graveyard requirements are the main choke points; Ceiling and median are estimated from card text, not from recorded boards
• Provisional: Matchup fit and meta position, since no dated metagame sample was supplied; Tournament reliability, since no tournament link exists
• Data gaps: No recorded boards supplied, so median output and ceiling are text-based inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot results are absent No win-rate telemetry, so going-first and going-second splits are inferred Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null in the source