Scareclaw Deck #751688 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Scareclaw Tri-Heart and Light-Heart on the Extra Monster Zone, after Defense Position setup, and attack with 3000 ATK link monsters; Synchro and link end-boards (Chengying, Chaos Angel, Underworld Goddess) once the Main Deck engine has set up
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Level 3 or 4 Scareclaw monster, hand-summon a second Scareclaw beside it, use Reichheart or Reichphobia to fetch the next piece, then Link Summon Tri-Heart
• Turn 2 (going second): Stop the opponent's setup with Droll and Lock Bird, Forbidden Droplet, DD Crow or Ghost Belle, then rebuild the link board from the Graveyard
• Recovery: Scareclaw Arrival from the Graveyard to Defense Position, Reichheart search for a Scareclaw Spell or Trap, and Reichphobia search for the next starter
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no side deck and this list runs zero side cards

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: nine hand-summonable Scareclaw starters across four names give roughly an 86% chance of at least one in a going-first opening five, and a single Normal-Summoned Scareclaw bootstraps the rest. It converts that plan into pressure through a Link Extra Deck (two Tri-Heart and two Light-Heart) that reaches 3000-ATK end-boards, and the only recorded line reaches a power index of 98 with four Extra Deck summons. Interaction is layered across Droplet, Droll, DD Crow, Ghost Belle, Sclash, Straddle and Underworld Goddess, and recovery comes from Arrival, Reichheart and Reichphobia. The score is held back by thin evidence (one recorded board, so the median is unmeasured), a single shared engine, and only about 49% exact-archetype purity; popularity and meta share earned no points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63.7, Going First ≈ 69, Going Second ≈ 69, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62.8. Modifiers: Off-archetype Extra Deck flex (-2); Single shared engine (-2); Conditional dead cards (-1); Engine compactness (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(63.7) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(62.8) = 63.5, then context modifiers (-3) = 60.5, rounded to 61; Meta Power provisional (no dated meta sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.14 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex 98, median 98, board-per-starter 2
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Nine hand-summonable Scareclaw starters across four names, all Normal-Summonable, give roughly an 86% chance of a starter in a going-first opening five
• Link Extra Deck core (Tri-Heart x2, Light-Heart x2) provides 3000-ATK end-boards and Extra Deck access without a single point of failure
• Layered interaction: Droplet x3, Droll x2, DD Crow x2, Ghost Belle, Sclash, Straddle and Underworld Goddess
• Recovery through Arrival (Graveyard recursion), Reichheart and Reichphobia searches

Weaknesses

• Only one recorded combo line exists, so the ceiling of 98 is not backed by a measured median or floor
• Single shared engine: recorded lines show one starter route
• Exact-archetype purity is 48.7%, with 20 off-archetype copies including Forbidden, Book of, DD, Kaiju and Knightmare
• Several conditional cards (Arrival, Sclash, Straddle, Forbidden Droplet, Book of Eclipse) need board presence to do anything

Critical choke points

• The first Scareclaw monster on the field: every hand-summon depends on an adjacent Scareclaw, so removing or negating it stops the hand-summon line
• Extra Deck link routing through the Extra Monster Zone and Main Monster Zone starters
• Tri-Heart's three-material Link Summon, which requires three face-up monsters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Duel Links: 30 Main (20 to 30), 9 Extra (0 to 9), 0 Side, all cards Unlimited under BanDuelLink; Card text for the starters, Droplet, Droll, DD Crow, Ghost Belle, Tri-Heart and Reichheart; Exact-name purity 48.7% with 19 exact and 20 off-archetype copies; All 9 Extra Deck slots are used (7 Link, 2 Synchro)
• Observed: One recorded line: power 98, 2 starters, 4 Extra Deck summons, 2 boss monsters, 3 end monsters; Recorded lines average 6 Graveyard cards and net card advantage of +5
• Inferred: About 0.86 chance of at least one hand-summonable starter in a going-first five, and about 0.91 going second; Brick and dead-in-hand risk is moderate from conditional cards; Interaction layering from card text and the recorded interaction density of 3; Going-first and going-second power are structural blends, not measured split results
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no matchup or tournament data); Side-deck adaptability (Duel Links has no side deck)
• Data gaps: Only one recorded combo line exists, so the median and floor are not measured No going-first or going-second split is recorded for any line No tournament link: archetype meta share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists for this deck (matchup, going-first or going-second, brick or starter rates) The usage check for Extra Deck cards reports Tri-Heart, Light-Heart, Underworld Goddess, Chengying and Knightmare Phoenix as absent even though the list runs them, so the missing-core read is unreliable for Extra Deck cards; only Monster Reborn and Rescue Cat are confirmed missing main-deck core cards The deck title is null; the evaluation uses the archetype name only Duel Links has no side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed