Snake-Eye Deck #752067 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Board conversion through Snake-Eyes Flamberge Dragon (3000 ATK, 2 copies), Diabellstar the Black Witch (2500 ATK) and Link beats from Promethean Princess, Topologic Trisbaena and Salamangreat Sunlight Wolf; Sinful Spoils recursion (WANTED: Seeker, Original Sinful Spoils - Snake-Eye) grinding the board back after interaction
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Snake-Eye Ash or Snake-Eyes Poplar (6 starter copies in total), search or summon a Level 1 FIRE monster, then extend with Snake-Eye Oak or Birch into a Flamberge or Diabellstar board while holding Forbidden Droplet and Silvera for the opponent's first play
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Nibiru x2, Ghost Belle x2, Effect Veiler x2, Droll & Lock Bird) to stop the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through the Snake-Eye GY and banish effects into a Flamberge or Link board
• Recovery: Snake-Eye Ash and Oak recover banished or GY Level 1 FIRE monsters; Original Sinful Spoils and WANTED: Seeker bring back Sinful Spoils and Diabellstar from the GY
• After siding: None: Duel Links has no sideboard in use here (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan to credit

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Snake-Eye starter: six copies of Ash and Poplar give about a 70% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand and about 77% going second (hypergeometric, Inferred), and ten Level 1 FIRE monsters give several ways to continue the engine. It converts into board pressure through Flamberge Dragon, Diabellstar and FIRE Link monsters, with interaction spread across seven hand traps and several negations, so it can answer a first play without a fixed combo. Its weak points are the lack of recorded boards, which leaves the ceiling and median as text-only reads, and a low exact-name purity of 33%, with eight Extra Deck Link monsters outside the archetype. The score comes from consistency, interaction and resilience on the system, not from the Snake-Eye archetype's popularity, and not from averaging card scores. The one external signal, a Vietnamese guide calling Snake-Eye Tier 1 as of 18/9/2026, is an unverified claim with no tournament link, so it does not move the score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 65, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Archetype purity dilution (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.7 · 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

• Six three-copy-or-two-copy starter options give about 70-77% starter access (Inferred)
• Seven hand traps plus negation text give layered interaction for both turn orders (Inferred)
• Multiple independent Level 1 FIRE starters and Sinful Spoils recursion keep lines open after disruption (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median cannot be measured (data gap)
• Exact-name purity is 33.3% with eight off-archetype Link Extra Deck cards (Verified list)
• Nine tech and hand-trap slots that can be dead in a hand (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Only six Ash and Poplar copies carry the opening starter role; a hand without them relies on Oak, Birch or Kurikara (Inferred)
• Diabellstar and Sinful Spoils lines depend on a Snake-Eye or Sinful Spoils piece already in hand or GY (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal list: 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side within Duel Links size rules; Copy histogram 8/8/2 and the Main/Extra card counts match the card list; Lyrilusc is Limited at 1 copy, which is legal; Hand-trap count of 7 and 10 Level 1 FIRE monsters match the card list
• Observed: Usage statistics show Snake-Eye core cards at 50-100% inclusion
• Inferred: Starter access ≈ 0.70 going first and ≈ 0.77 going second; Interaction density and recursion resilience read from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates from hand quality and interaction
• Provisional: Format fit (D13) and Meta Power rely on a guide's Tier 1 claim with no dated meta sample or 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 match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) usage_statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with the card list for Extra Deck cards (Promethean Princess, Knightmare Phoenix, Masquerena, Underworld Goddess, Linkuriboh, Lyrilusc); core_present_pct is unreliable Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied the single guide claims Tier 1 status as of 18/9/2026 and is not verified