Red-Eyes Deck #765522 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon Lord of the Red (or Illusion of Chaos / Sauravis) to build a board that removes opposing monsters, then close with Dark Dragoon or Black Meteor Dragon; Fusion/Link/Xyz boss monsters (Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Paladin, Dark Armed) reached through Red-Eyes Fusion and the Link/Xyz Extra Deck slots
• Turn 1 (going first): Search Preparation of Rites or Pre-Preparation of Rites for a Ritual Spell, Ritual Summon Lord of the Red with Red-Eyes Transmigration, then use Lord's once-per-turn removal on the best opposing monster
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Lord of the Red and Dark Dragoon removal on the opponent's activations and monsters, with Sauravis or Illusion of Chaos negating the first key effect
• Recovery: Recover Red-Eyes monsters from the GY with Red-Eyes Wyvern, Red-Eyes Spirit and Red-Eyes Black Meteor Dragon, and re-search Red-Eyes Insight or Preparation of Rites
• After siding: No side deck exists in Duel Links, so there is no post-side plan; the deck adapts only through its single 30/9 construction

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens through its 13 search and text-driven starters: Insight, the two Preparation of Rites spells and Magician's Rod, which together make P(at least one searcher in an opening 5) about 0.96, so the engine is accessible even though any single Lord of the Red is live in only about 43% of opening hands. It converts that access into a Ritual Summon of Lord of the Red or Illusion of Chaos, and the three Lords supply repeatable removal against monsters and activations. Recovery comes from Red-Eyes monsters in the Graveyard being revived by Wyvern, Spirit and Black Meteor Dragon, and from re-searching Insight and Preparation. Closing power relies on Dark Dragoon and Dark Armed and a single Ritual boss line, while the deck has few cards that stop an opposing turn outright. This score was built from consistency, median output and interaction on the whole system; it did not come from averaging card scores, and the Red-Eyes popularity signal in the usage stats confirms only that the list is real and accessible, not that it is strong. No tournament or win-rate data exists, so Meta Power and matchup fit are provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange 80 / Toolbox 20, applied as the Midrange profile. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: No combo evidence (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*58 + 0.20*50 = 56.4, then modifiers -2 = 54.4, rounded to 54

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.43 · 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 density (13 text-search cards) keeps the engine accessible
• Three Lord of the Red removal effects give repeatable interaction
• Graveyard recursion gives multiple recovery routes

Weaknesses

• Only 11 monsters in the main deck; the engine depends on Ritual Spells rather than monster density
• Three-copy staple searchers can leave hands without a live Lord or Transmigration
• No hand traps and no side deck, so interaction is limited to on-field removal and negation

Critical choke points

• Red-Eyes Transmigration and a Ritual Spell must both be present to summon Lord of the Red
• Lord of the Red at 3 copies is the single starter with the most leverage; opening access is about 43%

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 30 and Extra 9 meet Duel Links size rules (20-30 / 0-9); No banlist violations; all 17 main and 8 extra distinct cards are Unlimited; Side count is 0 and Duel Links has no side deck; Archetype usage: 17 of 25 core cards present (68%)
• Observed: Usage stats show Red-Eyes Black Dragon at 75% inclusion with 2 copies
• Inferred: P(at least one Lord of the Red in opening 5) about 0.43; P(at least one searcher in opening 5) about 0.96; Removal and negation roles from card text; Ritual engine chain and recovery plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit, pending a dated metagame sample; Tournament reliability, since no tournament link exists
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Data inconsistency: usage_statistics marks Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Underworld Goddess, S:P Little Knight, Dark Armed, TY-PHON, Dark Paladin, I:P Masquerena and Artemis as not in this deck, but the cards list runs them in the Extra Deck; the usage check appears to match Main Deck only Deck title is null in the export