Snake-Eye Deck #765549 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Snake-Eye engine (FIRE monsters sent to Spell/Trap zone, then re-summoned) followed by Link and Xyz boards (Promethean Princess, Amblowhale, Zealantis, Underworld Goddess) and Snake-Eyes Flamberge Dragon.; Sinful Spoils recursion grinding the GY and banish zones through repeated Diabellstar and Sinful Spoils activations.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Snake-Eye starter (Ash, Birch, or Oak; P(at least one of the 22 archetype-core cards in hand of 5) ≈ 0.9996), search a Level 1 FIRE via Ash or Oak, and convert into a Link or Xyz board while holding Cosmic Cyclone or a hand trap for the opponent's first response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold a hand trap (Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit; P(at least one in 6 cards) = 0.83) to interrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Poplar or Sinful Spoils.
• Recovery: Recover from a single removal or negation by reviving FIRE monsters from the GY or banish zone through Snake-Eye Oak, Original Sinful Spoils, and Diabellstar recursion.
• After siding: No side deck in this Duel Links export (side 0); no post-side plan is available, so the deck relies on the main-deck hand traps and removal for matchup adjustments.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Snake-Eye starter: 22 archetype-core cards give a near-certain opening (P ≈ 0.9996 for at least one core card in a 5-card hand, Inferred), and the 10 searcher-text cards add a further draw route. Its interaction is the strongest part of the system: 7 hand traps and 11 removal-text cards give P ≈ 0.83 of at least one hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand (Inferred). Its recursion through Sinful Spoils, Snake-Eye Oak, and the GY/banish engine supports grinding after a single disruption. Its ceiling and median cannot be measured because no recorded boards exist, so combo scores rest on card text only (Inferred). Popularity and the guide's Tier 1 claim did not earn points because they are unverified and not a win rate, and the score was built from the system rather than an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Stun secondary (interaction weighted). Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: no side deck / post-side plan (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*65 + 0.20*62 = 64.4, minus 2 for no side deck = 62.4, 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

• Near-certain archetype starter access in the opening hand
• Strong interaction: 7 hand traps plus removal and negation text
• Recursion via Sinful Spoils and Snake-Eye revival
• Diverse Link and Xyz closing bosses in the Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are unmeasured
• Exact-name archetype purity is only 28%, so a large share of the list is generic
• No side deck in this export
• Usage data conflicts with the Extra Deck list (see data gaps)

Critical choke points

• Snake-Eye starter Ash/Oak/Birch: at most 1–2 copies each, so a single starter may be missing
• Diabellstar and Sinful Spoils chains depend on the GY being populated
• Hand-trap dependence on going second

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status, 30 main / 9 extra / 0 side against Duel Links size rules; Copy histogram (7 one-of, 4 two-of, 5 three-of); Card text and stats for all 25 distinct cards; Usage stats: 23 rows, 12 core cards present
• Observed: Usage inclusion rates (e.g. Flamberge 100%, Diabellstar 95%)
• Inferred: Starter access ≈ 0.9996 and hand-trap ≈ 0.83 (hypergeometric); Interaction quality and recursion routes from card text; Going-first and going-second splits
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated sample); Matchup and format fit
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Usage data says Knightmare Phoenix, I:P Masquerena, Underworld Goddess, Lyrilusc, Amblowhale, and Promethean Princess have in this deck=false, but the same card_ids appear in cards[] with zone=extra; likely a usage-stat matching or main-only inclusion bug, not used to score No side deck in this export (side 0); the post-side plan cannot be evaluated