Destiny Heros Deck #750850 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 63/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Link boards (Vision HERO Adoration, Starving Venom Fusion Dragon, Khaos Starsource Dragon, Xtra HERO Dread Decimator) closing through 2500-2800 ATK bosses and piercing damage; Destiny HERO recursion from GY (Malicious, Denier, Dreamer, Plasma) rebuilding a board after interaction
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a HERO starter (Malicious, Denier, Vyon, Faris or Stratos), search or recycle into Fusion Destiny or Polymerization, and Fusion or Link Summon a boss while holding Droll and Lock Bird or Forbidden Droplet for the opponent's response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand with 6 hand traps (D.D. Crow, Droll and Lock Bird, Artifact Lancea, Nibiru) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Destiny HERO GY effects into a boss
• Recovery: Destiny HERO monsters banished or sent to the GY re-enter through their own GY effects; Vyon and Denier add Polymerization or a HERO to the top of the Deck
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional HERO starter: the 21-copy archetype core gives P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.999 (Inferred), and the 3-copy Malicious and 2-copy Denier and Plasma create several independent first-turn routes. Its strength comes from recursion and redundancy, since Destiny HERO monsters rebuild from the Graveyard after interruption, and from a 6-card hand-trap package that gives about 77% odds of at least one hand trap when going second (Inferred). Conversion is credible but unmeasured: no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median come from card text and the Fusion and Link bosses, not observed play. Popularity and the guide claims of tier-1 status did not earn points on their own. Scores come from the consistency, interaction and closing power of the system as a whole, not from averaging individual card scores. The score is held down by the absence of combo data, the lack of a Side Deck in this format, and no dated meta sample.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 67, Going Second ≈ 70, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional): 0.80*65.9 + 0.20*62 = 65.2, then modifiers -2 gives 63.2, rounded to 63

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Large HERO starter pool with a 21-copy core gives near-certain access to a starter in opening 5 (Inferred)
• Recursion from GY across several HERO monsters gives interruption resilience (Inferred)
• Six hand traps and layered negation give a credible going-second plan (Inferred)
• Several 2500-2800 ATK bosses with piercing text close games (Verified text)

Weaknesses

• No recorded combo boards; ceiling and median are text-only inferences (Inferred)
• No Side Deck in Duel Links, so adaptability cannot be scored (Verified structure)
• 10 tech slots and 14 singleton cards add dead-draw risk (Inferred)
• No dated meta sample or tournament link; matchup fit is provisional (Provisional)

Critical choke points

• Polymerization-family access (Fusion Destiny, Super Polymerization, Fusion Substitute) for Fusion bosses; a Fusion without the spell leaves the boss plan stalled (Inferred)
• Single Limited Super Polymerization copy limits repeatability (Verified banlist)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 30, Extra 9, Side 0 within Duel Links size rules; Super Polymerization Limited (1 copy run, legal max); Bystial Druiswurm Semi-Limited (1 of 2 allowed); Card text for Malicious, Denier, Plasma, Vyon, Faris, Dread Decimator, Adoration and Starving Venom
• Observed: Usage statistics: Destiny HERO core cards at 100% and 90% inclusion across archetype rows
• Inferred: Starter access 0.999 and hand-trap access 0.773 from hypergeometric estimates; Going-second and going-first power from hand-trap odds and interaction text; Ceiling and median from card text, not recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13) with no dated metagame sample; Tier-1 claims in guides are human assertions and are not used as evidence
• 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 Side Deck in the Duel Links format: post-side plan and D12 cannot be measured no win-rate telemetry: going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied