Dinos Deck #706701 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra-Deck Dino bosses (Ultimate Conductor Tyranno 3500 ATK, Overtex Qoatlus, Evolzar Laggia/Dolkka) summoned from a Dinosaur-stocked Graveyard or banished pool, backed by Dogoran and Link/Xyz pressure.; Link and Xyz board pressure (S-Force Justify, Decode-free Link-2/3 shells, Tornado Dragon) that converts after a hand-trap or negation interaction turn.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Miscellaneousaurus or Souleating Oviraptor (or Fossil Dig into a Dino) to chain Dino recursion, using Effect Veiler or Droll & Lock Bird only when the opponent presents a Main Phase or draw threat.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold a hand trap (Artifact Lancea, Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence; about 83% at least one in a 6-card hand) to stop the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Dino GY recursion into a boss.
• Recovery: Babycerasaurus and Petiteranodon return a Dino from the Deck when destroyed by an effect, and Double Evolution Pill and Fossil Dig re-fill the hand, so a broken first turn still has a second Dino-based route.
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no side deck and the list runs 0 side cards.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Dino engine: 14 monster and search starters (Oviraptor x3, Miscellaneousaurus x3, Fossil Dig x3, Babycerasaurus x2, Petiteranodon x2, Animadorned Archosaur) give an estimated ~92% chance of at least one starter in a 5-card opening hand. Recursion through Babycerasaurus, Petiteranodon and Double Evolution Pill keeps the line alive after one disruption, and the Dino Graveyard then feeds Tyranno and Qoatlus. Seven hand traps and several negation cards (Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird, Artifact Lancea, Infinite Impermanence, Forbidden Droplet, Evolzar Laggia/Dolkka, S-Force Justify) give layered interaction, with about 83% chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand on the going-second side. The score rests on starter access, recursion, interaction density and boss closing power assessed on the system, not on averaging the cards. Popularity is not credited: the Dinos archetype is present in the usage data, but the list is only 0% exact-name Dino, so it earns no meta points, and Meta Power stays provisional. The 0-point combo evidence (no parseable boards) forces D3 and D4 onto text-only inference, which is the main reason confidence is Medium.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.75 Midrange / 0.25 Combo (one primary plus one secondary, per Step 5). Structural ≈ 64.6, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Engine conflict on banished Dinos (-2); Sub-archetype fragmentation (-2); Interaction redundancy (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*64.6 + 0.20*60 - 2 = 61.7, rounded to 62

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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

• Dino recursion (Babycerasaurus, Petiteranodon, Oviraptor, Miscellaneousaurus) keeps the engine alive after disruption
• Seven hand traps and multiple negation cards give layered interaction on both turns
• Strong Extra-Deck boss ceiling (Tyranno 3500, Qoatlus 2700, Dogoran 3000) for closing

Weaknesses

• No exact-name archetype purity; the engine is split across several sub-archetypes
• Dinos competing for the same banished pool between Tyranno, Qoatlus and Giant Rex
• No side deck in Duel Links, so there is no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Dino count in the Graveyard for Tyranno and Qoatlus summons
• A single Fossil Dig or Oviraptor/Miscellaneousaurus starter in the opening hand

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 30, Extra 9, Side 0, legal in Duel Links with 0 Forbidden and 1 Limited (Abyss Dweller 1/1); Copy histogram 1:7, 2:7, 3:3 sums to 30; Card text and stats for all 26 distinct cards
• Observed: Usage stats show 10 of 25 'core' cards present; 40% core presence
• Inferred: At least one starter in 5 cards ≈ 0.92; Recursion and interaction density scores (D5, D7); Going-second hand-trap access 0.83 (from the supplied hand-trap estimate)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); D13 matchup and format fit
• 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 usage_statistics 'core' list mixes non-Dino cards (Nibiru, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction), so core_present_pct is unreliable as an archetype signal Duel Links has no side deck, so D12 has no real post-side evidence