Marincess Deck #762286 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 65/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Land a Link-4 Aqua Argonaut or Great Bubble Reef in the Extra Monster Zone, then win through its battle and effect lock plus Marincess Crown Tail and Wonder Heart pressure (Inferred).; Wonder Heart (Limited, 1 copy) or Worldsea Dragon Zealantis as a higher-ATK finisher once the Link engine is online (Inferred).
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Blue Tang or Springirl (both 3 copies) to start Link Summoning, reach a Link-2/Link-3 with Crystal Heart or Coral Triangle, then Link into Aqua Argonaut to lock the opponent's attacks (Inferred).
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Nibiru, Artifact Lancea, Ghost Belle) or Marincess Wave and Cascade to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild the Link-4 from the GY using Basilalima and Pascalus recursion (Inferred).
• Recovery: Banish Marincess monsters from the GY (Basilalima, Sea Horse, Mandarin) to re-summon starters and search Marincess Spells and Traps, so one cleared board does not end the turn (Inferred).
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan. Any adjustment must come from the 30-card main deck and the Extra Deck (Inferred).

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens on its archetype core: 20 Marincess-core copies give a near-certain opening presence (P >= 1 about 0.998 per the archetype group), and the 3-copy starters Springirl, Blue Tang, and Wave give about a 0.43 chance each of appearing in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred). It converts that into a Link-4 Aqua Argonaut lock, which scores well on ceiling and on endboard interaction, with several recursion routes (Basilalima, Pascalus, Sea Horse) that help it survive one interruption. Its weaknesses are the absence of any side deck, the lack of recorded boards to ground a median, and a limited going-second hand-trap count of three. The score comes from consistency, resilience, recursion, and interaction on the system, not from Marincess being a popular archetype and not from averaging card scores. No meta sample exists, so Meta Power stays provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange profile only; Combo secondary is disclosed as a strategy tag but not blended into weights. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 65. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Engine compactness (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional)

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

• Near-certain archetype core presence (P >= 1 about 0.998)
• Link-4 Aqua Argonaut lock and layered interaction (Wave, Cascade, three hand traps)
• GY recursion and searchers (Basilalima, Pascalus, Blue Tang, Crystal Heart) support recovery across turns
• Legal list at the Duel Links limits, with the Limited Wonder Heart at one copy

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• Only three hand-trap copies and a modest going-second board breaker
• Two-card Link bootstrap creates variance in the opening hand
• No recorded boards, so the median and floor cannot be grounded

Critical choke points

• Opening a WATER starter plus a second WATER monster for the first Link-2/Link-3 (Inferred)
• Reliance on Aqua Argonaut or Great Bubble Reef in the Extra Monster Zone for the lock and closing pressure (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Duel Links with 30 main, 9 extra, and 0 side; Wonder Heart is Limited with one legal copy and one copy run; Archetype purity 74.4% with four off-archetype copies; Nine Link monsters in the Extra Deck
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter and core probabilities; Going-second hand-trap coverage; Link-4 lock as the primary conversion route; Recovery through GY recursion
• Provisional: Meta and format fit (D13); Matchup coverage; Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: 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 exists in YGOVN: going-first/second, matchup, and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics marks all nine Extra-Deck Link monsters (for example Aqua Argonaut, Coral Anemone, Zealantis) as in_this_deck:false even though the cards array lists them in the Extra zone; the usage ref IDs appear mismatched, so only the cards array was used