Vaalmonica Deck #750382 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 21 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Pendulum-scale Resonance Counters enable Link Summons of Vaalmonica Link Monsters (Zebufera and Duralume at 2500 ATK, Varar at 3000 ATK) that attack through the opponent's board; Xyz pressure from Dugares and Super Starslayer TY-PHON, plus Vaalmonica Creation and Varar's extra battle attacks
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Dimonno Vaalmonica and Angello Vaalmonica into the Pendulum Zone, then use Vaalmonica searchers (Selettrice, Versare, Disarmonia, Scelta) to add the Link enablers needed for a Resonance-gated Link Summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Nibiru, the Primal Being as a hand trap against 5+ summoned monsters, then rebuild the Pendulum Zone and Link Summon from the remaining hand
• Recovery: Recur through Vaalmonica Ereditare (banish from GY) and Vaalmonica Disarmonia (GY recovery), then re-establish Pendulum scales
• After siding: Not applicable: no Side Deck list, and Duel Links has no post-side games

Why it scores here

The deck's structural score comes from its system: seven searcher-text cards give a roughly 0.90 chance of at least one searcher in the opening five, and the five Pendulum monsters (3 Dimonno, 2 Angello) supply the Resonance Counters that gate Link Summoning. Its ceiling is a Resonance-gated Link Summon into 2500–3000 ATK Links, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median (D3, D4) are text-only inferences and the median is scored conservatively. Interaction is moderate: one Vaalmonica Ereditare negation, two Nibiru hand traps, and removal text on seven cards support resilience. Popularity and archetype usage were not counted as power, the 14 dimensions were combined under the Combo profile rather than averaged from individual card scores, and Meta Power remains provisional because there is no dated metagame sample.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 57, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Resonance-gated Link Summon (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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

• Seven searcher-text cards give strong opening-five searcher access (~0.90)
• Five Pendulum monsters provide the Resonance fuel the Link engine needs
• Link attackers at 2500 and 3000 ATK provide closing pressure
• Two Nibiru hand traps and one Ereditare negation add interaction
• Recursion through Ereditare and Disarmonia supports resource recovery

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are unverified
• Ten off-archetype copies (eight generic, two Mulcharmy) dilute the engine
• Link Summon of the strongest Link monsters is gated by Resonance counters
• No Side Deck; no matchup or meta data to support format fit
• High execution complexity for a Pendulum-Link deck

Critical choke points

• Resonance Counter generation from Pendulum-zone Fiend/Fairy monsters gates the Zebufera and Duralume Link Summons
• Pendulum scales must be set before the Link Summon window

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 21 / Extra 9 / Side 0 is within Duel Links size rules (20–30 / 0–9 / 0–9); Abyss Dweller is Limited at 1 copy and runs 1 copy, which is legal; Card stats and text read from the cards array (Dimonno, Angello, Zebufera, Duralume, Varar)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand estimates (P≥1 searcher ≈ 0.90, P≥1 Dimonno ≈ 0.58); Combo ceiling and interaction ratings from text, not boards; Brick and pilotability estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Usage-statistics in this deck flags conflict with the cards array: Zebufera, Duralume, Varar, I:P Masquerena, Number 60 and TY-PHON are listed as absent but appear in the Extra Deck, so the core-coverage figures (57.1%) are unreliable and were not used Deck title is null; the deck name is taken as unknown Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied