Snake-Eye Deck #765161 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 65/100 (±7 · 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: Link Summon a large Link threat (Underworld Goddess 3000, Promethean Princess 2700, Amblowhale 2600 and up, Zealantis 2500) after Snake-Eye monsters are placed as Continuous Spells and recycled through the GY (Inferred from card text); Flamberge Dragon 3000 and Diabellstar the Black Witch 2500 as ground pressure (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Level 1 FIRE starter (Poplar, Oak or Ash) to search or summon the next Snake-Eye piece, then convert into a Link Summon (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Droll and Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre or Forbidden Droplet against the opponent's first Normal or Special Summon, then rebuild from the GY using Oak, Ash or Wanted (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recycle Snake-Eye monsters and Sinful Spoils cards from the GY through Oak, Ash, Wanted and Original Sinful Spoils (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links decks carry no side deck in this evidence (Provisional)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a live engine: eight Level 1 FIRE starters (Poplar, Oak, Birch, Ash) give about an 82% chance of at least one starter in a 5-card opening hand, and a searcher is present in about 86% of hands. Conversion is carried by Extra Deck Link threats with strong stats and some board-level answers (Underworld Goddess, Zealantis), but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based inferences and carry low weight. Interaction is layered across Forbidden Droplet, Silvera, Startling Stare, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Cyclone, which supports resilience after disruption. Popularity and the guide's Tier 1 remark did not earn points; the score comes from the system's starter access, recursion and interaction, not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 67, Going First ≈ 72, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: off-archetype dispersion (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*67.11 + 0.20*60 - 1 = 64.7, rounded to 65

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · 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

• Eight Level 1 FIRE starters and a searcher in about 86% of hands give consistent engine access
• Layered interaction: Droplet, Silvera, Startling Stare, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Cyclone and Underworld Goddess
• High-stat Link threats in the Extra Deck with coverage from Link 1 to 5

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unverified
• About a third of the main deck is reactive and can brick without a board or opponent action
• Low archetype purity (33%) spreads the engine across three sub-archetypes
• No side deck, so post-side adaptability cannot be assessed

Critical choke points

• Level 1 FIRE starter count: losing Poplar, Oak and Ash to a single hand disruption leaves few plays
• Underworld Goddess and Zealantis are one-copy Extra Deck pieces, so their loss removes the main board answers

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Duel Links, 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side, all cards within copy limits; Lyrilusc Limited at 1 copy; Card stats and text for the 30 Main and 9 Extra cards; Composition counts (16 distinct main, 9 Extra, copy histogram)
• Observed: Guide 1430 (dated 18/9/2026) describes Snake-Eye as Tier 1 in Duel Links (a single guide's claim, not a measured result)
• Inferred: P(>=1 starter in 5) about 0.82 and P(>=1 searcher) = 0.857 (hypergeometric); Going-first and going-second plans and recovery routes derived from card text; Ratings for D1 to D9, D11 and D14 from text and composition
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 format fit, which need a dated metagame sample; Tournament Reliability relies on provisional side-deck and matchup inputs
• Data gaps: No recorded combos: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only (combos_evidence total_combos = 0) usage_statistics in_this_deck and missing_core flags disagree with the deck's cards list: all 9 Extra Deck core entries (Knightmare Phoenix, Masquerena, Underworld Goddess, Lyrilusc, Amblowhale, Promethean Princess, Linkuriboh, Zealantis, S:P Little Knight) appear in the Extra zone but are flagged absent, so core coverage is treated as all 23 present, not 14 of 23. Likely a matcher that skips the Extra zone; fix upstream No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates): these signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck in evidence, so D12 is Provisional