Snake-Eye Deck #759406 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±6 · 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: Snake-Eyes Flamberge Dragon (3000 ATK) and Link boss monsters such as Underworld Goddess of the Closed World (3000 ATK) and Promethean Princess (2700 ATK), reached by chaining Level 1 FIRE searches and Special Summons from the Snake-Eye engine (Inferred from card text); Diabellstar the Black Witch and Sinful Spoils recursion for a second line of pressure and grind (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Snake-Eye starter (Ash, Poplar, Oak or Birch), search a Level 1 FIRE monster with its effect, and use the Spell/Trap placement effects to keep backrow-based Special Summons going toward Flamberge or a Link boss (Inferred; no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the four hand traps (Artifact Lancea x2, Droll & Lock Bird x2) and the backrow interaction (Startling Stare, Sinful Spoils of Betrayal - Silvera, Forbidden Droplet) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through the Snake-Eye engine (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recycle from the GY and banish: Original Sinful Spoils, WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils and the Snake-Eye monsters can be re-used from the GY, and Snake-Eyes Flamberge Dragon can be sent back to the field from the GY as a Continuous Spell (Inferred)
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no sideboard and the deck runs 0 side cards; the recovery plan is the only adaptation route

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: it reliably finds Snake-Eye engine pieces (9 searcher-text cards, P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) = 0.857) but its single most important starter, Snake-Eye Ash, appears in only 31% of opening hands (Inferred). Its strength is layered interaction and recovery rather than a fixed combo: four hand traps and several backrow negations or control effects cover the going-second turn, and GY/banish recursion (Original Sinful Spoils, WANTED, Flamberge) lets it keep rebuilding after a disruption. Closing power comes from a 9-card Extra Deck with several 2600-3000 ATK Link and Xyz bosses. The score does not come from Snake-Eye being a popular archetype or from averaging card scores; there are no recorded boards, so the floor and median are text-only estimates and the score carries a wider band. Meta is provisional because no dated metagame or tournament sample is available.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 67.6, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 70, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: engine conflict (second engine) (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*67.6 + 0.20*62 - 2 = 64.5, rounded to 64

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.31 · 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 Snake-Eye searcher and Special Summon network (9 searcher-text cards; 86% to find one in an opening hand)
• Layered interaction: 4 hand traps, Silvera, Startling Stare, Droplet, Mind Control and Lancea
• Recursion through GY and banish (Original Sinful Spoils, WANTED, Flamberge) allows rebuilding
• Strong Extra Deck closers: Flamberge (3000), Underworld Goddess (3000), Promethean Princess (2700), Amblowhale (2600)
• Legal in format; no banned or over-limit cards
• 7 of 9 Extra cards match the archetype core usage list

Weaknesses

• Key starter Snake-Eye Ash in only 31% of opening hands
• 28% exact-name purity and a second engine (Diabellstar and Sinful Spoils) that competes for the same hand slots
• Two Hey, Trunade! and two Mind Control are situational and do not advance the engine
• No recorded boards, so the floor and median are unknown

Critical choke points

• Snake-Eye Ash and the Level 1 FIRE search chain; if the first Level 1 FIRE monster is missing the line stalls
• Summoning Flamberge depends on the Snake-Eye Spell/Trap placement effects, which can be stopped by a single interruption

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Legal under Duel Links BanDuelLink; Lyrilusc (Limited) 1/1 and Hey, Trunade! (Semi-Limited) 2/2 are within limit; Card text and stats for all 30 main and 9 Extra cards; Usage statistics (inclusion % and typical copies) for the archetype core
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probabilities (hypergeometric) and the 0.857 searcher-group probability; Brick-rate and engine-conflict assessments; Turn-1 and turn-2 plans and recovery lines from card text; Going-first and going-second interaction estimates
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame or tournament sample); Side deck adaptability (no sideboard in Duel Links); Floor and median output (no recorded boards)
• 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 are absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup, game-level and brick/starter/OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Usage-stat inconsistency: core_cards and missing_core mark 7 Extra-Deck cards (Underworld Goddess, Promethean Princess, Amblowhale, Lyrilusc, Masquerena, Knightmare Phoenix, Linkuriboh) as not in this deck, but the cards array lists them in the Extra Deck; core_present_pct 60.9 undercounts (recomputed as 21 of 23 present, 91.3%)