Chimera Deck #764877 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion or Xyz boss on board (Chimera the King of Phantom Beasts, Guardian Chimera, Number 90, Beatrice, Abominable Unchained Soul) carried by a Chimera Fusion or Berfomet fusion route; Berfomet the Mythical King of Phantom Beasts (x3) as a repeatable Fusion boss from Fusion-Summon chains
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Gazelle or Berfomet to search a Chimera Fusion or a Level 5 Fiend, then Chimera Fusion into a Fusion boss; Dark Ruler No More or Forbidden Droplet held for the opponent's response
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with Forbidden Droplet or Dark Ruler No More to clear the opponent's effect monsters, then rebuild the board through the Gazelle/Berfomet/Coatl search chain
• Recovery: Chimera Fusion and Master Tao / Soul Scissors / Naelshaddoll Ariel recursion from the GY; Abominable Unchained Soul special summons from hand after a card is destroyed
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no Side Deck (side_count 0)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its engine: six searchers at three copies each (Gazelle, Berfomet, Coatl, Swordknight, Nightmare Apprentice, Chimera Fusion) give P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opening) of about 0.96, and P(at least one Chimera Fusion in a 5-card opening) is about 0.43 (Inferred, from the hypergeometric table). Conversion to pressure is credible on text alone, since three Fusion bosses and four Xyz bosses reach 2100 to 3300 ATK, but there are no recorded boards, so the ceiling (D3) and median (D4) are both structural reads with no measured floor. Interruption resilience is good because several level 4 and fusion-capable starters provide independent routes. The score is not earned by Chimera's past popularity or the guide's note that the archetype has cooled, and the individual card scores were not averaged; the deck was scored as a system. Negation spells (Forbidden Droplet and Dark Ruler No More, six copies combined) keep interaction present but dead without a board, which holds back going-first brick management.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange profile used unblended; Combo recorded as secondary strategy, not weighted. Structural ≈ 60.7, Going First ≈ 63, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Sub-archetype dilution (-2); Redundant searcher engine (2); Negation density (1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*60.7 + 0.20*60 + 1 ≈ 62

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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

• Six searchers at three copies each keep the engine live in most openings
• Boss density: three fusion bosses and four Xyz bosses with 2100-3300 ATK
• Layered interaction: Dark Ruler No More, Forbidden Droplet, Number 90 and Evilswarm
• Several independent level 4 starters give redundancy after a single disruption

Weaknesses

• No hand traps and no floodgates, so the deck has no interaction on the opponent's turn
• Negation spells are dead without a board, which hurts going-first hands
• Sub-archetype mix (Forbidden, Gagaga, Shaddoll, Burning Abyss, Lswarm) dilutes engine coherence
• Several 1-copy utility cards (Gagaga Girl, Gagaga Magician, Soul Scissors, Naelshaddoll Ariel) add slot cost without a clear shared route

Critical choke points

• Chimera Fusion (3 copies) is the main fusion enabler; without it the Extra Deck bosses are hard to reach from hand
• Fusion bosses need a Beast or Fiend in material, so the opening must contain a level 4 Beast or level 5 Fiend starter

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Duel Links: 30 main and 9 extra; Beatrice (Limited) run at 1 copy; Card stats and text excerpts for all 26 distinct cards; Usage statistics show Chimera core cards at 100% inclusion
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities for searchers and Chimera Fusion (hypergeometric); Interaction and recursion density from card text; Pilotability from combo step count in card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Side Deck score (no Side Deck 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 match record are absent usage_statistics mismatch: all seven 'missing_core' cards (Beatrice, Number 90, Berfomet fusion, Chimera KoPB, Guardian Chimera, Castel, Evilswarm) are in the Extra Deck with copies_in_deck 0, so core_present_pct 68.2 is an artifact of Main-only matching and was not used; the real core presence is 22 of 22 no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no title on the deck (title null)