Dragonmaid Deck #754205 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Out-grind with recurring Dragonmaid bodies and convert the Fusion toolbox (Sheou negate, House 3000 beatdown, Mirrorjade banish) into incremental card advantage and lethal ATK.; Forbidden Droplet plus Super Polymerization swing a stuck board, then push with House/Sheou/Lorpar/Cehrmba for an OTK.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Parlor to send a Dragonmaid to the GY, or Chamber to fetch a Spell/Trap; set Tidying and/or hold Droplet/Nibiru/Droll to layer disruption.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droplet/Super Poly/Nibiru to crack the board, then recur with Hospitality/Bystials and close with big Dragon ATK.
• Recovery: Tidying's GY tag, Sheou's Standby revival, Branded Regained's banish-draw loop, and Dragonmaid battle-phase tag-outs rebuild the board.
• After siding: No side deck in this Duel Links list; adaptation is limited to main-deck swaps.

Why it scores here

This Dragonmaid build earns its score from a genuinely dense interaction package — Sheou's negate, Mirrorjade's banish, three copies of Forbidden Droplet, Dragonmaid Tidying, the Bystial banishes, plus Nibiru and Droll & Lock Bird — layered onto a real grind engine that recurs through Dragonmaid tag-outs, Tidying's GY effect and Sheou's Standby revival. What holds it back is consistency: the archetype is bridged with Bystial/Branded/Albaz sub-engines but the core redundancy is thinned (Chamber, House, Hospitality and Magnamhut all at one copy), so opening a coherent line is not guaranteed and the floor is a modest set-and-pass. Because no combo boards are recorded, the ceiling (Sheou + House + Mirrorjade) is text-inferred rather than measured, and the fusion-only Extra Deck with no Synchro/Link coverage limits route flexibility. Meta-share and popularity did not earn any points here, and the score is a system read of consistency, interaction, grind and resilience — not an average of individual card scores. This lands as a solid mid-tier midrange deck in a Duel Links context, not a format-warping one.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.85. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 57. Modifiers: Engine conflict / hybrid tax (-2); Thinned core redundancy (-1); Fusion-only Extra Deck coverage gap (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.63 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.47 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.15 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High interaction density: Sheou negate, Mirrorjade banish, Droplet x3, Tidying, Bystial banishes, Nibiru and Droll.
• Strong resource recursion (tag-outs, Tidying GY effect, Branded Regained, Sheou Standby) supports a grind game.
• Fusion toolbox covers removal, negation and heavy beaters (House 3000, Sheou 3500).
• Bystial/Branded/Albaz bridge gives flexible bodies and graveyard disruption.
• Big ATK bodies enable OTK reach as noted in the archetype guide.

Weaknesses

• Mixed engines with thin 1-of redundancy reduce opening consistency and raise brick risk.
• No combo evidence to validate floor, median or ceiling output.
• Fusion-only Extra Deck with no Synchro/Link/Xyz coverage limits route flexibility.
• Several core cards run below typical copies (Chamber 1, House 1, Hospitality 1, Magnamhut 1).
• No side deck; limited post-side resilience.

Critical choke points

• The Normal Summon on Parlor/Chamber — if negated or removed the main line stalls.
• Fusion payoff depends on Changeover/Cartesia/Albaz; disruption to those leaves no end-board boss.
• Graveyard dependence of Bystials can be punished by graveyard hate.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality Legal: 30 Main / 9 Extra / 0 Side within Duel Links caps.; Super Polymerization Limited (1), Bystial Druiswurm and Magnamhut Semi-Limited, all within legal copies.; Card text and ATK/DEF stats for all listed cards.; Extra Deck is nine Fusion monsters with no Synchro/Link/Xyz.
• Observed: Composition counts: 19 distinct Main cards, 9 distinct Extra, copy histogram 10/7/2.; Usage stats list 25 archetype rows with core_cards_present 11/25 (note: several 'absent' extras such as House/Sheou/Lady's are in fact in the Extra Deck).
• Inferred: Starter probability ≈0.63 and full-brick ≈0.15 from hypergeometric estimates.; Interaction density and grind read from card text.; Dimension scores and structural blend derived from the system, not card averages.
• Provisional: Meta Power null — no dated metagame sample.; Matchup/format fit is provisional without tournament data.
• 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 no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics core presence appears inconsistent with the resolved Extra Deck card list