Memento Deck #765519 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±8 · 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: Large Memento boss monsters from the Extra Deck: Mementoal Tecuhtlica - Combined Creation (5000 ATK, Special Summoned by shuffling 5 Memento monsters) and Mementomictlan Tecuhtlica - Creation King (3000 ATK, Fusion).; Mementotlan-Horned Dragon (2850 ATK), Special Summoned from hand when 3 different-name Memento monsters are in the GY, and Mementotlan Twin Dragon (2800 ATK).
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a 3-copy Memento starter (Mementotlan Dark Blade, Shleepy, Tatsunootoshigo, Bone Party or Mementotlan Fusion) that searches or recurses another Memento, then convert into a Fusion or Creation King.
• Turn 2 (going second): No hand traps are present, so going second depends on Mementotlan Fracture Dance and Mementotlan Cranium Burst as responses, Mace to steal a monster, and recovered Memento monsters from the GY.
• Recovery: Recur Memento monsters from the GY through Mementotlan Ghattic, Angwitch and Akihiron, and reach the 3-different-name GY condition for Horned Dragon.
• After siding: No side deck is run (side size 0 is legal), so no post-side plan exists.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Memento starter: 24 of 30 Main Deck cards are Memento-named, and the searcher-text group has a hypergeometric P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.96, so the engine is live on most openings (Inferred). Its recursion (Ghattic, Angwitch, Akihiron, Horned Dragon from the GY) lets it rebuild after interruption, which is the main reason for the resilience and grind scores. Interaction comes from text rather than hand traps (19 removal-text hits, Fracture Dance, Mace, Cranium Burst), so it earns credit at end-board but loses ground going second, where no hand trap exists. The high closing score comes from the 5000, 3000, 2850 and 2800 ATK Extra Deck bosses, and the score is not an average of card scores. Popularity was not rewarded: the usage statistics only confirm that the list is a recognisable Memento build, and there are no combo records, no tournament link and no side deck. The score is Medium confidence with a band of plus or minus 8.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange, with D13 dropped and the remaining weights renormalised over 95 points (meta-neutral). Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Usage deviation from archetype core (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural = 6181/95 = 65.1; 0.80*65.1 + 0.20*60 - 2 = 62.1)

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

• Searcher and recursion density gives a near-certain starter in the opening hand
• Extra Deck boss ceiling of 5000, 3000, 2850 and 2800 ATK
• Interaction through removal and steal text, with no reliance on a single card

Weaknesses

• No hand traps, so going-second disruption is thin
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Several 1-copy engine pieces make single-card draws costly

Critical choke points

• Going second with no starter in hand and no hand-trap answer to the opponent's first board
• The 3-different-name GY condition for Horned Dragon and the Combined Creation summon both need a GY that is filled first

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in duel-links: 30 Main cards (limit 20-30) and 9 Extra cards (limit 0-9), with no violations; Mementotlan Cranium Burst, Mementomictlan and other Memento cards are Unlimited; Lyrilusc - Assembled Nightingale is Limited with 1 copy run and 1 allowed; Exact-name archetype purity is 71.8% (28 of 39 Memento copies); Per-copy hypergeometric values (3 copies = 0.4335 in hand5) and the searcher-text group value 0.9566
• Observed: Usage statistics show the list is a recognisable Memento build, with 18 of 21 core cards in the card array (Inferred from the stat table, not from boards)
• Inferred: D1 to D11 and D14 scores, all based on card text and hypergeometric reasoning; Going-first 68 and going-second 58 estimates; Structural 65.1 and Final 62 after the -2 modifier
• Provisional: Meta Power is null and D13 is excluded from Structural; Tournament Reliability of 60 is estimated without match data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN: going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck flags disagree with the cards array for Mementomictlan Tecuhtlica - Creation King, Mementotlan Twin Dragon, I:P Masquerena, Predaplant Dragostapelia and Lyrilusc - Assembled Nightingale; the cards array was treated as authoritative Guide 1484 has an empty snippet and no sections, so no strategic intent could be read from guides Deck title is null, so the name is taken from the archetype only