Destiny Heros Deck #765171 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion, Link and Xyz boss summons from the Extra Deck (Vision HERO Adoration, Destiny HERO - Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer, Xtra HERO Dread Decimator, Super Starslayer TY-PHON, Underworld Goddess) backed by the Destiny HERO board; Recursive Destiny HERO pressure through Malicious, Dreamer and Plasma, with Forbidden Droplet and Mask of Restrict as disruption
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Destiny HERO starter (Malicious, Plasma, Denier, Dreamer) plus a search or Fusion/Link route, then keep a hand trap (Droll, Veiler, Nibiru) up for the opponent's first Main Phase
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand traps (P>=1 in hand 6 about 0.91 for the nine hand-trap copies) to break the opponent's opening, then convert through the Extra Deck boss
• Recovery: Recover from the GY through Dreamer, Malicious and Xtra HERO Cross Crusader effects that revive or re-summon HERO monsters
• After siding: Not applicable: the Duel Links format supplies no side deck (Side Deck size 0)

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably: the archetype core is 23 copies of the 30-card main deck, so the probability of at least one archetype starter in a 5-card opening hand is effectively 1.0 (Inferred from the hypergeometric table). Its Midrange shape comes from many interaction and disruption cards: nine hand traps (Droll, Veiler, Nibiru at three copies each), Forbidden Droplet, and Plasma's negate, which lift the end-board and going-second scores. Recursion (Malicious, Dreamer, Denier, Cross Crusader) and Extra Deck access supply the resilience and closing power. The score is held back by the lack of recorded boards (no combo evidence, so floor and median are text-only), by a tribute-engine conflict with Mask of Restrict, and by the missing Duel Links post-side plan. Popularity and the guides' tier-1 claims earned no points, and no card scores were averaged into the result.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, no blend weights applied. Structural ≈ 65.5, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 70, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 64. Modifiers: engine_conflict_mask_of_restrict (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*65.5 + 0.20*64 - 3 = 62.2, rounded to 62

Probability & combo summary

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

Strengths

• Archetype core is near-certain to appear in the opening hand
• Nine hand traps give layered going-second interaction
• Recursion and Extra Deck access give multi-turn resilience
• Deck is 30/9/0, the Duel Links legal maximum for Main and a legal Extra

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so floor and median output are unmeasured
• Mask of Restrict conflicts with the Tribute summon engine
• Nine hand traps and 12 tech cards raise dead-draw risk
• No Duel Links side deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Mask of Restrict blocks Tribute and would need to be removed or never drawn alongside Plasma and Nibiru
• Fusion Destiny and Fusion Substitute are the sole Polymerization-style access for the Fusion bosses

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in duel-links: 30 main, 9 extra, 0 side, no violations; Mask of Restrict is Limited with one copy run (legal); Card text and stats for all listed cards
• Observed: Usage statistics show the archetype core is run at 100% for several cards (Vyon, Plasma, Faris, Stratos, Malicious, Increase, Fusion Destiny)
• Inferred: At least one archetype starter in an opening hand is near-certain; Going-second hand-trap coverage about 0.91; Mask of Restrict conflicts with Tribute summons; Interaction and recursion strengths from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13 neutral); Guide claim that the deck is tier 1 in Duel Links; a human claim, not a measured result
• 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 absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Usage statistics mark Cross Crusader, Dread Decimator, Underworld Goddess, Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer and Vision HERO Adoration as in this deck=false, but they appear in the deck's extra list with copies 1 or 2. The usage-to-deck ID matching looks wrong, so missing core cards is unreliable Duel Links has no side deck, so D12 and the post-side plan are not applicable Deck title is null in the export