Chimera Deck #698599 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 65/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion monster board (e.g., Chimera the Illusion Beast or high‑ATK Fusion); Control via hand traps and board disruption
• Turn 1 (going first): Set hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, D.D. Crow), activate Chimera Fusion to summon a Fusion monster, protect with The End of Anubis, then pressure opponent
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps to stop opponent, activate Forbidden Droplet to halve ATK, then Fusion summon a powerful monster
• Recovery: Searchers (Gazelle, Cornfield Coatl, Big‑Winged Berfomet) retrieve missing Fusion pieces; Graveyard recursion via Master Tao
• After siding: No side deck – relies on core engine and hand‑trap suite

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens with at least one core Chimera starter (≈99% chance) and has a strong hand‑trap suite that secures the early game. Its Fusion engine can produce high‑ATK monsters such as Chimera the Illusion Beast, giving a solid ceiling, while the median output stays moderate due to its control‑oriented playstyle. Redundancy comes from multiple searchers and graveyard effects, but the lack of a side deck and low archetype purity limit flexibility and matchup coverage.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 65.3, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 65, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 65. Modifiers: Side Deck Adaptability (-3); Main Deck Efficiency (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Very high engine start consistency
• Robust hand‑trap suite for control
• Flexible Fusion options covering multiple monster types

Weaknesses

• No side deck limits adaptability
• Low archetype purity and many off‑archetype cards
• Missing core Fusion monsters such as Chimera the King of Phantom Beasts

Critical choke points

• Reliance on specific Fusion materials that may be disrupted
• Absence of side‑deck answers to certain meta decks

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Extra Deck slots fully used (9/9); Side deck count is zero
• Inferred: Engine start probability 0.9944; Brick probability 0.0056; Fusion ceiling up to 3100 ATK; Median output moderate; Redundancy via hand traps and searchers; Resource recovery via searchers and graveyard effects; Interaction quality from high‑ATK Fusion and removal links; Hand‑trap probability 0.6123 in six‑card hand; Closing pressure from high‑ATK Fusion and control effects; Main deck efficiency reduced by low purity; Pilotability increased by many decision points
• Provisional: Matchup coverage uncertain due to missing meta data
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied