Vaalmonica Deck #765176 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 20 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon high-ATK Vaalmonica Link monsters (Varar 3000, Underworld Goddess 3000, TY-PHON 2900, Duralume and Zebufera 2500) once Resonance Counters are built in the Pendulum Zone; Xyz pressure from Number 60 and TY-PHON, plus Vaalmonica Creation ATK boosts on Link monsters at 6+ counters
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Vaalmonica monster or Pendulum with Selettrice / Vaalmonica the Voice / Versare, set Angello and Dimonno in the Pendulum Zone, build counters, then Link Summon through the 3-counter gate
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Nibiru or Forbidden Droplet to answer an early board, then rebuild the Pendulum engine from the searchers and Invitare
• Recovery: Seven searcher-text cards and the Vaalmonica Pendulum recursion (Disarmonia, Ereditare shuffle-back) rebuild a Pendulum pair from GY or banish
• After siding: Not applicable: the Duel Links build carries no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan to score

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reasonably often: Angello Vaalmonica (3 copies) is in the opening 5 about 60% of the time, and at least one of seven searcher-text cards is in hand about 92% of the time, so the Pendulum engine is usually reachable by turn 2 (Inferred). Its weakness is that the engine is conditional: it needs both Angello and Dimonno (scales 3 and 5) in the Pendulum Zone, which is roughly 24% in a going-first hand and 33% going second before any search (Inferred), and the Link gates on Zebufera, Duralume and Varar need 3 Resonance Counters on the correct Pendulum monster type. Conversion and closing power are strong on paper, with several 2500-3000 ATK Links and Vaalmonica Creation boosts, but no recorded boards exist to confirm a median output, so the floor is scored lower than the ceiling. Interaction is adequate for a Duel Links build (Ereditare, Forbidden Droplet, Nibiru, Underworld Goddess, Varar, Duralume), and it is scored as text reads only. Popularity and the archetype's core-card stats did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Pendulum pair dependence (-3); Searcher redundancy (2); Resonance-counter Link gate (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-3)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.6 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.24 · 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

• Seven searcher-text cards give high redundancy for finding a Pendulum monster on turn 1-2
• Several 2500-3000 ATK Link and Xyz finishers with a Link-gated engine
• Compact 20-card main with 11 singletons and 15 distinct cards
• Multiple self-recovery and banish-recursion routes (Disarmonia, Ereditare)

Weaknesses

• Engine requires both Angello and Dimonno in the Pendulum Zone, about 24% in a going-first opening hand
• Link Summons gated by 3+ Resonance Counters on specific monster types
• Only one copy each of Nibiru and Forbidden Droplet; thin going-second answers
• Two Mulcharmy Fuwalos are off-archetype draw cards that do not advance the engine

Critical choke points

• Pendulum scale pair (Angello + Dimonno) must be set before the Link gate can be used
• Resonance counter accumulation needs Fiend or Fairy monsters in the other Pendulum Zone

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status, 20 main / 9 extra / 0 side inside the Duel Links size range; Copy histogram and archetype purity (69%); Card text for Angello, Dimonno, Varar, Underworld Goddess, Ereditare, Creation; Hypergeometric draw odds for copy counts 1-3 match the formulas
• Inferred: Engine consistency and pair probability (0.24 / 0.33); Searcher redundancy (P>=1 = 0.917); Interaction quality from negation text; Pilotability from decision-point count
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated sample); Going-second split and post-side plan (no data)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry for Duel Links Vaalmonica usage_statistics marks Extra Deck cards Zebufera, Duralume, Varar, Masquerena, TY-PHON, Underworld Goddess and Dugares as in_this_deck=false although the cards list has them in the Extra zone, so core_present_pct (63.2%) is unreliable archetype_core_group p_open=1.0 is a proxy group metric, not a real opening-hand measure, and is not used for scoring Single guide, Vietnamese snippet only, no section structure No deck title