Adamancipator Deck #718175 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±7 · 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: Excavate Rock monsters from the Deck with the Adamancipator Analyzer, Seeker and Researcher, then convert them into 3000-ATK Synchro and Link monsters (Risen Dragite, Borreload Savage Dragon, Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying, Underworld Goddess).; Koa'ki Meiru negation and removal (Guardian, Sandman, Wall, Block Dragon) to strip the opponent's board while the excavate engine rebuilds.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with an excavator or Doki Doki from the Rock pool, then use Researcher or Seeker once a Rock or Adamancipator monster is on the field to excavate and summon a Level 4 or lower Rock, and move toward a Synchro or Link.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to summon an excavator into the opponent's monster, excavate a Rock, and keep Forbidden Droplet or the Koa'ki negation monsters for the opponent's first big play.
• Recovery: Excavation repeats from any excavator in the Graveyard or hand, Supplier and Rock Band Xenoguitar recycle Rocks from the Graveyard, and the Extra Deck has five Synchro options plus three Links.
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links is a single game with no side deck, so the deck has no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional engine: nine excavator copies give about an 86% chance of at least one in a five-card opening hand, and about 91% in a six-card hand (Inferred, hypergeometric). Its ceiling comes from excavating Rock monsters into 3000-ATK Synchro and Link threats, and the negation monsters (Koa'ki Meiru) and hand traps give it real interaction. The score is not based on popularity: the archetype's usage list confirms the build is accessible, but it earned no points by itself. The score also does not average card scores; it rests on the system's consistency, conversion, interaction and closing power. Its main drags are the lack of any recorded board data, a Rock-dependent summoning condition for each excavator, and a known weakness to Book of Eclipse, which the guide names as the archetype's biggest problem.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 54, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: Book of Eclipse exposure (-2); Excavator field dependency (-1); Compact Extra Deck with redundant Synchro options (1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · 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 excavator copies make the engine reliably live on the opening turn
• Five Synchro and three Link options with several 3000-ATK threats
• Layered negation from Koa'ki Meiru monsters and two hand traps

Weaknesses

• Each excavator's hand-summon needs a specific board state
• Known weakness to Book of Eclipse with no protection
• No recorded board data, so the ceiling and median are estimates

Critical choke points

• Turn 1 with no monster on the field: excavators cannot be summoned, so the engine needs Doki Doki or a Rock already on the board
• Koa'ki end-phase destruction requires an Iron Core or a Rock revealed from hand, and no Iron Core is in the list

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 30 and Extra 9 match the Duel Links size rules; No restricted or banned cards are in the list; Nine Synchro and Link options in the Extra Deck; Adamancipator or Koa'ki Meiru cluster covers 21 of 30 main-deck copies
• Observed: The guide reports Book of Eclipse as the archetype's main weakness
• Inferred: Excavator odds in the opening hand: 0.857 going first, 0.909 going second; Hand-trap odds in a six-card hand: 0.3655; Engine accessibility and closing-power scores
• Provisional: Matchup fit and meta position (no dated sample); Going-first and going-second splits are estimates from text only
• 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, brick and starter rates are inferred Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Usage statistics mark Risen Dragite, Risen Raptite, Chengying, Gallant Granite and I:P Masquerena as not in the deck, but they appear in the card list, so the core-coverage figure is unreliable Duel Links has no side deck, so post-side scoring has no basis