Destiny Heros Deck #750823 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Fusion boards (Xtra HERO Cross Crusader, Vision HERO Adoration, Destiny HERO - Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer) backed by Destiny HERO recursion from the GY; Vision HERO Faris / Plasma pressure and Dread Decimator piercing once the board is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Destiny HERO - Malicious or Denier to search and recur HERO monsters, set Warning Point / Solemn Scolding behind them, then convert into a Link or Fusion boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Dark Hole and face-down negation traps to clear or hold the opponent's first board, then extend through Plasma and the Extra Deck
• Recovery: Recur Malicious, Dreamer, Denier or Vyon from the GY, and use Fusion Substitute or Liquid Soldier to draw and rebuild
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links runs a 0-card side deck, so there is no post-side step

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its HERO engine: the 16 archetype-core copies give a 98.6% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and the three-copy starters Malicious and the negation traps each hit about 43% of openers. Its engine recurs from the GY through Malicious, Denier, Dreamer and Vyon, so it can continue after one interruption. Its interaction is the strongest part of the list: Dark Hole x2, Warning Point x3, Solemn Scolding x3, Floodgate Trap Hole and Plasma negation give a heavy end-board stack, which is why going-second and endboard quality score above the median. Offensive closing and combo output are scored on text only, because no recorded boards exist, so those scores carry low weight and wide uncertainty. Popularity and guide claims that the archetype is 'tier 1' did not earn points; the score comes from consistency, recursion, and interaction on the system, not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Control secondary (structural weights from Midrange profile). Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 63, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Dreadmaster without Clock Tower Prison (-1); Usage-stat ID mismatch (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.43 · 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

• Archetype core is almost always present in opening hands (Inferred)
• Dense interaction (Dark Hole x2, Warning Point x3, Solemn x3, Floodgate) with redundant copies
• Recursion from the GY gives repeatable engine access after disruption
• Compact 30-card main with a full 9-card Extra Deck that covers Links and Fusion

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-inferred only
• Dreadmaster is a dead slot without Clock Tower Prison
• TY-PHON Xyz has no reliable Level 12 base in the list
• No side deck, so adaptability cannot be tested

Critical choke points

• Malicious / Denier starter line: losing the one-card opener to a hand trap leaves the GY recursion without setup
• Negation traps (Solemn, Warning Point) only work with a Set card, so a full hand of monsters removes the defence

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 within duel-links size rules; Mind Drain Limited 1 copy run 1; Hey, Trunade! Semi-Limited 2 copies run 2 (legal); Card text and roles from the evidence cards list
• Observed: Usage statistics show archetype-core inclusion, but the Extra Deck ID mismatch limits the read
• Inferred: P(>=1 of 3-copy starter in opener) ≈ 0.43; archetype-core opening ≈ 0.99; Interaction density and recursion lines read from text; Going-first and going-second scores from the system read
• Provisional: Meta-share and tier claims from guides (no dated sample); Matchup 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 usage_statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with the cards list for several Extra Deck cards (ID mismatch) no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied