ABC Deck #756922 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Fusion/Xyz/Link mechanic
• Format: duel-links

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck 3000-ATK bosses (Underworld Goddess of the Closed World, ABC-Dragon Buster, XYZ-Hyper Dragon Cannon) reached through a Union equip engine; Level 5 Union attackers (Union Driver, Union Pilot, 2100 ATK) and Xyz/Link pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Union Hangar or Union Activation (one copy each), establish a LIGHT Machine on the field, equip Union monsters, and use Unauthorized Reactivation to add more Union pressure (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with Effect Veiler or Forbidden Droplet to answer the opponent's first monster effect, then rebuild through Union equips and Extra Deck summons (Inferred)
• Recovery: GY and banish recursion: Union Scramble (x2) and Union Activation pull banished or GY Machines back, and ABC-Dragon Buster uses GY or banished fuel
• After siding: None: this format has no sideboard (side count 0)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a LIGHT Machine plus Union monster hand: P(at least one Union monster in 5 cards) is about 0.99 and the full-brick rate from having no Machine in hand is about 0.3%, so the engine is accessible on the system level. Conversion rests on the Union equip chain into three 3000-ATK Extra Deck bosses, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based inferences. Resilience comes from redundant lines (three Unauthorized Reactivation, two Union Scramble, Union Activation recursion) and two Effect Veiler plus two Forbidden Droplet for interaction, though going-second hand traps are thin. Score is 62 because of consistency, interaction and closing power on the system, not because ABC is a popular archetype, and the card scores were not averaged. Single-copy searchers and the Cyber Dragon Extra package pull the score down, and Meta and side-deck factors are provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: single-copy searcher choke (-2); engine conflict: Cyber Dragon Extra package (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · 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

• Union monsters are dense (18 of 30 main) and almost always present in opening hands
• Three 3000-ATK Extra Deck bosses plus two-copy Effect Veiler and Forbidden Droplet interaction
• Recursion through Union Scramble and Union Activation
• Legal list with no restricted cards and a compact 15-card main

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median are text-only
• Only two hand traps and no floodgate for going second
• Cyber Dragon Nova and Infinity have no Cyber Dragon targets in the Main Deck
• Exact-name archetype purity (36%) reads low for an engine built on the generic Union mechanic

Critical choke points

• Union Hangar and Union Activation (one copy each)
• A LIGHT Machine must already be on the field before Union monsters can equip

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 30 main, 9 extra, 0 side within Duel Links size rules; all cards Unlimited, no restricted cards; Composition: 18 Union monsters, 15 distinct main cards, Extra split 3 Fusion, 3 Xyz, 3 Link; Card text excerpts for Union Hangar, Union Activation, Union Scramble, Underworld Goddess, ABC-Dragon Buster and Cyber Dragon Nova
• Inferred: Consistency estimates from hypergeometric draw odds (e.g. P(Union in 5) ≈ 0.99, full brick ≈ 0.3%); Engine reads: Union equip chain, recursion, and interaction density from card text; Going-second interaction and board-breaking assessment; Core-card presence: the usage-stat flag misses Extra Deck cards, so the true presence is about 17 of 25 (68%), not the reported 48%
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample); Tier 2 placement from a guide snippet; Side-deck adaptability (no sideboard in this format)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first or second, matchup, brick or starter rates) in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample usage_statistics in_this_deck flags are false for all Extra Deck cards (ABC-Dragon Buster, XYZ-Hyper, Underworld, Platinum Gadget, Cyber Dragon Nova), so core_present_pct (48%) is understated Guide evidence is a single snippet with no sections Deck title is null Duel Links has no sideboard, so D12 is a neutral placeholder