Chimera Deck #736780 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Berfomet the Mythical King of Phantom Beasts or Chimera the King of Phantom Beasts through the Chimera Fusion and searcher chain (Gazelle, Big-Winged Berfomet, Cornfield Coatl, Nightmare Apprentice).; Link and Xyz boards: Underworld Goddess of the Closed World (Link 5, 3000 ATK) and Beatrice, Lady of the Eternal (Limited, one copy).
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Gazelle, Berfomet or Cornfield Coatl, then Chimera Fusion, then Fusion Summon from the Extra Deck using Beast and Fiend or Illusion monsters from hand or field. Lava Golem and Radian need an opponent monster to Special Summon, so they are not turn-1 plays going first.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the single Droll & Lock Bird, Dark Ruler No More (x2) or Forbidden Droplet to stop the opponent's first board, then rebuild through searchers into Chimera Fusion.
• Recovery: Recur through Chimera Fusion from the GY (its GY effect is conditional on Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast being on field or in GY), Soul Scissors and Master Tao the Chanter GY Special Summons, and Cornfield Coatl's discard-to-search.
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no post-side step and the deck runs 0 side cards.

Why it scores here

The deck's consistency rests on a searcher layer that is almost always reachable: the probability of at least one searcher (12 copies) in a 5-card opening hand is about 0.94 (Inferred), and Chimera Fusion (3 copies) provides a repeatable Fusion route with GY recursion. Conversion is credited from card text and the Extra Deck's high-ATK Fusion and Link bodies (Berfomet 2400, Chimera Illusion Beast 3100, Underworld Goddess 3000) rather than from observed boards, because the export contains no parseable combos. Interaction is moderate (Dark Ruler No More x2, Forbidden Droplet, Droll & Lock Bird, End of Anubis, Nightmare Magician, Underworld Goddess) and is not credited as board-breaking beyond what the text supports. Points are reduced for conditional bricks (Lava Golem x3 and Radian x3 need an opponent monster; Farfa destroys itself if you control a non-Burning Abyss monster) and for Super Starslayer TY-PHON, which needs Level 12 materials that the list does not contain. Popularity was not credited: usage stats confirm the list is a real Chimera build (archetype exact-name purity 17.9%), but that alone earns no points, and the score was built on the system rather than averaged from card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: missing core support (-2); single Extra-Deck dependence (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional/null) = 0.80*59.49 + 0.20*58 - 3 ≈ 56

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

• Searcher density (12 copies) gives about 0.94 probability of a searcher in the opening hand (Inferred)
• Chimera Fusion recursion and GY Special Summons provide repeatable recovery (Inferred)
• High-ATK Fusion and Link bodies give closing power (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Lava Golem x3 and Radian x3 need an opponent monster to Special Summon, so they are dead going first (Inferred)
• Farfa destroys itself if a non-Burning Abyss monster is controlled, which is near-certain in this list (Inferred)
• Super Starslayer TY-PHON needs Level 12 materials that the deck does not contain (Verified composition)
• No side deck; Duel Links offers no post-side adaptation (Verified)

Critical choke points

• Chimera Fusion (3 copies) as the Fusion route into Berfomet MK and Chimera King; if it is negated, recovery depends on GY recursion (Inferred)
• Searcher draws: the Gazelle/Berfomet/Cornfield layer is the start of most lines (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in duel-links: 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side, no violations; Beatrice is Limited at 1 copy (legal); Card text and stats from resolved card list; Archetype purity 17.9% and composition counts; Guide states Guardian Chimera is missing from the Duel Links build
• Inferred: Searcher probability ≈ 0.94 and Chimera Fusion probability ≈ 0.43 (hypergeometric); Dead-start rates for Lava Golem, Radian and Farfa (text-based); Dimension scores D1-D14 and structural score 59; Conversion ceiling from card text, not from recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup/format fit (no dated sample); Guide statement that Chimera has cooled recently
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry for Duel Links Chimera (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) usage statistics in this deck flags disagree with the resolved card list for Berfomet the Mythical King (69601012), Chimera the King (1769875) and Beatrice (27552504): flags say false, card list says in deck; the card list was used archetype core definition (20 copies, 0.9982) is undefined and treated as a proxy only Meta Power provisional: no dated metagame sample supplied