Memento Deck #765136 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Summon Mementomictlan Tecuhtlica - Creation King (3000 ATK) or Mementoal Tecuhtlica - Combined Creation (5000 ATK) through the Memento self-summon and fusion engine, then press with Mementotlan-Horned Dragon and Mementotlan Twin Dragon.; Mementotlan Twin Dragon and Mementotlan-Horned Dragon as board-presence payoffs once the GY holds several distinct Memento monsters.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Memento starter (Angwitch, Tatsunootoshigo, Dark Blade, Shleepy) or a searcher, use Mementotlan Fusion / Bone Party to build toward a Memento fusion, and keep Droll & Lock Bird or Effect Veiler up as interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use a hand trap (Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler) to slow the opponent's first play, then rebuild the board through the Memento GY recursion effects and Special Summon payoffs.
• Recovery: Recur distinct Memento monsters from the GY (Ghattic, Akihiron, Bone Party, Angwitch) to re-satisfy the Level and different-name requirements for Horned Dragon and the Combined Creation summon.
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no side deck in this export (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan to score.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as one connected Memento system: 23 of its 39 cards are exact-name Memento cards, 17 distinct Memento-core copies give a 99.1% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, and 10 searchers give 89% at least one searcher in hand. Its ceiling comes from text alone (Creation King, Combined Creation at 5000 ATK, Horned Dragon) because no recorded boards exist, so combo conversion is an Inferred read and was not averaged from card scores. Interaction is dense on paper (15 removal-text, 6 negation-text and 6 hand-trap cards), which lifts the endboard and resilience dimensions, while 6 hand traps and 16 off-archetype copies (including 2 Forbidden Droplet and the Predaplant Dragostapelia) cost some brick and efficiency points. Popularity and archetype usage stats were used only to confirm the core is the standard Memento list, not to add power. No side deck exists in Duel Links, and there is no meta or win-rate data, so Meta Power is null and matchup fit is Provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: off_archetype_dilution (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*65.4 + 0.20*60 - 2 = 62.3, rounded to 62

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.43 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense Memento self-summon and searcher engine with redundant starters
• Layered interaction from hand traps, negation text and removal text
• High-ATK Extra Deck finishers with a 3-copy fusion boss
• Legal list with no copy-limit or size violations

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only estimates
• Six hand traps create some dead-card risk on the controller's own turn
• 16 off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• No side deck in Duel Links, so there is no post-side adaptability

Critical choke points

• Creation King and Combined Creation depend on satisfying the different-name Memento requirement through hand and GY, which can fail after heavy interaction
• Horned Dragon's GY condition needs 3 distinct Memento names

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 30 Main / 9 Extra / 0 Side within size rules, all copies within 3-copy limit; Card text excerpts for all listed cards; Archetype purity 23 exact / 16 off-archetype; Usage stats show Memento core inclusion at 100% for Akihiron, Horned Dragon and Mementomictlan
• Observed: Memento core inclusion rates from usage statistics (ecosystem-level, not this deck's results)
• Inferred: Core access: 0.991 at least one core card in 5 cards; 0.891 at least one searcher; Interaction density and resilience read from text; Going-first and going-second splits from card text and hand-trap counts
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13); Side-deck adaptability (D12), which is neutral with no side deck
• 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/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Data conflict: usage_statistics marks Mementotlan Twin Dragon, Mementomictlan Tecuhtlica - Creation King, Guardian Chimera, S:P Little Knight, I:P Masquerena and Underworld Goddess as in_this_deck=false, but the cards list includes them (copies 1-3). The cards list was treated as the source of truth; the usage flags should be checked Guide 1484 has no section content (snippet empty), so no strategic intent from guides