Rikka Deck #683015 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 48/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Plant-tribute Special Summons into large Plant boards, then Talaya, Hellebore, Benghalancer or Hyperyton for ATK pressure; Sunseed and Sunvine link chains that turn Plant Special Summons into Extra Deck pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Use Rikka Glamour or Mudan to search a Rikka monster, use Rikka Konkon to set a Rikka Spell/Trap from the Deck, then Tribute a Plant to bring out Mudan or Primula and build a Plant board
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold D.D. Crow and Rikka Princess as interaction, then use Enemy Controller, Hellebore and Kanzashi negation to stop the opponent's board before rebuilding Plant monsters
• Recovery: Rikka Petal and Rikka Queen Strenna return Plant or Rikka cards from the GY to the hand, and Hellebore Special Summons itself from the GY
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links decks run no side deck in this list, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Rikka or Plant turn: Rikka monsters appear in about 99% of opening hands, and the searchers (Glamour, Mudan, Petal) reach a second copy of the engine at about 63% for at least one. It converts that into Plant-tribute Special Summons and a field of 2400 to 2800 ATK threats, which carries most of the score. Interaction is layered across negation (Princess, Hellebore, Kanzashi), removal (MST, Enemy Controller) and two hand traps, but only one recorded board supports the conversion picture, so the median output is scored low and kept provisional. The score comes from consistency, recovery and interaction on the whole system; the archetype's popularity and the strong individual ATK numbers did not add points, and card scores were not averaged. Going second is weaker because the list depends on its own Plant board to start, and no going-first or going-second split was recorded.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange 100%; the Combo cues (one recorded line, Extra Deck summon count) are noted but not given weight. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Thin combo evidence (-4); Single engine enabler (-2); Extra Deck material gap (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*56.3 + 0.20*52 = 55.4, then -7 modifiers = 48.4, rounded to 48

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.63 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex 100, median 100, board-per-starter 4
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Rikka monsters and searchers are reliably available in opening hands
• Layered interaction: three negation effects, removal-text cards and two hand traps
• Strong ATK on the end board from Talaya, Hellebore, Hyperyton and Benghalancer
• Recursion through Petal, Strenna and Hellebore keeps lines alive after disruption

Weaknesses

• Only one recorded board supports the combo picture, so the realistic output is unmeasured
• No side deck, so no post-side adjustment is possible
• Several Extra Deck cards rely on specific Plant or Level material and may not connect
• Multi-step Tribute sequencing raises the error rate

Critical choke points

• Rikka Konkon (2 copies) is the field spell behind most Rikka set and Tribute lines
• Searcher access (Glamour, Mudan, Petal) depends on having a Plant monster to Tribute
• Hyperyton needs Level 9 material that the list does not reliably provide

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal size for Duel Links (30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side) and copy limits (One for One at 1 copy against a Limited cap of 1); Card text for Rikka Konkon, Mudan, Glamour, Petal, Hellebore and Talaya; Final Contextual formula arithmetic and Extra Deck type breakdown (4 Xyz, 5 Link)
• Observed: One recorded board: 8 Extra Deck summons, 3 bosses, power index 100 (n=1); Archetype usage data: Rikka core at 100% inclusion in other decks
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities (hypergeometric from the 30-card Main Deck); Negation and removal function, read from card text; Hyperyton material gap (Level 9 cards in the list); Going-second interaction value and Extra Deck pilotability
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Side deck adaptability (no side deck)
• Data gaps: No tournament link, so archetype meta share and per-pilot results are absent No win-rate telemetry exists, so going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Only one recorded board exists, so the ceiling and median are a single sample Archetype usage data disagrees with the card list on six Extra Deck cards (Sunavalon Melias, Benghalancer, Sunvine Healer, Sunavalon Dryas, Teardrop, Rikka Queen Strenna); the card list was treated as authoritative No side deck is present, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample