Destiny Heros Deck #751200 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Fusion/Link
• Format: duel-links

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Fusion bosses (Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer, Vision HERO Trinity, Vision HERO Adoration, Xtra HERO Cross Crusader, Underworld Goddess) converting a HERO board into attacks and ATK-reduction; Destiny HERO - Plasma (1900 ATK, negates monsters while face-up) as a stabilising boss after the opponent has committed a board
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a hand starter (Vision HERO Vyon, Destiny HERO - Denier, Elemental HERO Stratos or Elemental HERO Liquid Soldier), use its search or summon effect to reach Polymerization or Fusion Destiny, and fuse or link into a 2500-plus ATK boss while holding Forbidden Droplet or Magistery Alchemist for the opponent's response
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with a hand trap (D.D. Crow or Droll & Lock Bird) or Forbidden Droplet to blank the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Destiny HERO - Malicious recursion from the GY and Destiny HERO - Plasma
• Recovery: Recover from the GY: Destiny HERO - Malicious (3 copies) banishes itself to Special Summon another Malicious from the Deck; Vision HERO Increase returns from the GY as a Continuous Trap; Destiny HERO - Disk Commander draws 2 once from the GY
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links does not use a side deck (side_count 0)

Why it scores here

This Destiny Heros list opens a functional plan on the going-first hand more often than not, but not reliably: five singleton hand starters (Vision HERO Vyon, Destiny HERO - Denier, Elemental HERO Stratos, Elemental HERO Liquid Soldier and Vision HERO Faris) give roughly a 63 percent chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and 77 percent in a 6-card hand going second. The 80 percent HERO-family share (24 of 30 Main Deck cards across Destiny, Elemental and Vision HERO) and the GY recursion from Destiny HERO - Malicious and Vision HERO Increase supply redundancy after one disruption, which is what carries the Resilience and Resource scores. Interaction is the second pillar: three Forbidden Droplet, three D.D. Crow, two Droll & Lock Bird, three Magistery Alchemist and the Plasma negation give a dense hand-trap and end-board layer that scores well going second. The Extra Deck (two Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer, Vision HERO Trinity, Vision HERO Adoration, three Xtra HERO Cross Crusader, Underworld Goddess) supplies 2500-plus ATK closing power. The score does not come from the popularity of the archetype, the guides calling it a top-tier deck, or from averaging the individual card scores; no combo boards were supplied, so the output and ceiling figures are text-based Inferred reads and the confidence is capped at Medium.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Engine conflict: Mask of Restrict (-2); Engine compactness: HERO-family concentration (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample). 0.80*61.9 + 0.20*60 = 61.5, modifiers net 0, rounded to 62

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.63 · 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

• Dense HERO-family engine with 80 percent family share and redundant GY recursion
• Layered interaction: 3 Forbidden Droplet, 3 Magistery Alchemist, 3 D.D. Crow, 2 Droll & Lock Bird, Plasma negation
• Strong Extra Deck closing power with 2500-plus ATK Fusion/Link bosses across both Link and Fusion access
• All cards legal; list is 30 Main and 9 Extra, within Duel Links size rules

Weaknesses

• Going-first hand-starter access is only about 63 percent for a 5-card hand, with five singleton starters
• Mask of Restrict blocks the deck's own Tribute summons (Plasma)
• Several dead-in-hand or situational cards: Pot of Acquisitiveness (needs 3 banished monsters), Exchange, Droll & Lock Bird
• Off-archetype cards (D.D., Forbidden, Greed, Mask, Elemental HERO) reduce pure engine coherence

Critical choke points

• Hand-starter access on the going-first 5-card opening (about 63 percent)
• Plasma is the only stabiliser boss; if negated or removed early the board lacks a second non-link boss

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Legal; main 30 within [20,30], extra 9 within [0,9], side 0; only Limited card is Mask of Restrict at 1 copy; Composition: 19 distinct Main, 6 distinct Extra (5 Link, 4 Fusion); HERO-family share 24 of 30; Usage: archetype core inclusion statistics available (21 rows)
• Inferred: Hand-starter access: 63 percent going first, 77 percent going second (hypergeometric, singletons); Recursion and interaction density read from card text; Structural score from the Midrange weight profile
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup coverage and format fit (no tournament link); Side deck adaptability (not applicable in Duel Links)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combos_evidence has 0 parseable boards, so D3/D4 are text-only Inferred reads Usage-statistics in_this_deck flags are inconsistent with the card list: Xtra HERO Cross Crusader, Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer, Vision HERO Adoration and Underworld Goddess are present in the Extra Deck but flagged in_this_deck false, which suggests the core-match counted Main Deck cards only; the core_present_pct of 57.1 is therefore understated (about 16 of 21 core cards present on a corrected count) No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick/starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Duel Links has no side deck: D12 not measurable