Snake-Eye Deck #761675 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±9 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Tempo
• Format: duel-links

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Snake-Eye starters (Poplar, Ash, Birch, Flamberge Dragon, Oak) place monsters into the Spell/Trap Zone and Special Summon Snake-Eye follow-ups, then close with a Link or Xyz boss from the Extra Deck.; Diabellstar and Sinful Spoils searchers and recursion feed the same FIRE/Level-1 board, with Extra Deck Link monsters as the closer.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Snake-Eye Poplar or Ash, search or Special Summon a second FIRE starter, and use Divine Temple or Oak to build a Link route while holding Forbidden Droplet for the opponent's response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Forbidden Droplet and Nibiru as interaction, use Birch or Flamberge Dragon as a Quick Effect answer to the opponent's board, and rebuild through the Spell/Trap Zone.
• Recovery: Recover through the recursion effects on Snake-Eye monsters and Sinful Spoils cards sent to the GY, then re-search a starter with WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils.
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no side deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from its system: four FIRE Level-1 starters (Poplar x3, Ash x2, Birch x2, Oak x1) give several independent routes into the Spell/Trap Zone engine, and the hypergeometric estimate of about 0.43 for at least one Poplar in a 5-card opening hand is a meaningful but not reliable opening. Interaction is the strongest area, with three Forbidden Droplet, Nibiru, Sinful Spoils of Betrayal and Rciela, plus Link and Xyz boss monsters. Consistency is held back by 27 off-archetype copies, only 31% exact-name Snake-Eye purity, and a 52% presence of the archetype's core cards, so the deck is not a clean single-engine build. No recorded combo boards exist, so all conversion and median-output dimensions are text-based inferences. The score was not raised by Snake-Eye's popularity or the guide's Tier 1 remark, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(61) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(58) + ContextModifiers(-2) = 58; Meta Power provisional (no dated meta sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.43 · 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

• Four FIRE Level-1 starters with recursion give redundant routes into the Snake-Eye engine
• Three Forbidden Droplet plus Nibiru, Sinful Spoils of Betrayal and Rciela give layered interaction
• Strong Extra Deck closers, with Flamberge Dragon, Goddess and TY-PHON at 2900-3000 ATK
• Legal list with copy limits respected (Limited and Semi-Limited cards at legal maximum)

Weaknesses

• 27 of 30 main copies are off exact-name Snake-Eye, which weakens engine coherence
• Only 52% of archetype-core cards from usage stats are present
• No recorded combo boards, so conversion and median output are unmeasured
• Many Extra Deck slots depend on specific Link materials

Critical choke points

• Opening hand needs one of the 12 Snake-Eye starters, with about 0.43 odds for Poplar alone in a 5-card hand

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal: 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side, Limited and Semi-Limited cards at legal copies; Exact-name Snake-Eye purity is 30.8%; Usage core presence is 52.2% (12 of 23); Guide snippet describes Snake-Eye as Tier 1 as of 18/9/2026
• Observed: Usage stats show the archetype-standard core and the list's deviations
• Inferred: Starter access and consistency are estimated from hypergeometric odds; Interaction density is read from card text; Going-first and going-second strength are estimated from text and roles
• Provisional: Meta Power is null with no dated metagame sample; Matchup fit and side-deck adaptability are provisional
• 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 and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Duel Links has no side deck, so D12 and post-side plans are not applicable