Snake-Eye Deck #765979 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Snake-Eye engine (Flamberge Dragon, Poplar, Oak, Ash, Birch) converts into a large Fire or Link board, closed out by 3000-ATK boss monsters in the Extra Deck; Diabellstar and Sinful Spoils recursion, with Zealantis or Promethean Princess as Extra-Deck follow-up
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Snake-Eye starter (Poplar, Oak or Ash) and chain a second Level 1 FIRE searcher, then set Divine Temple or Startling Stare as backup interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird and Forbidden Droplet to disrupt the opponent's search or extension, then rebuild through Snake-Eye and Diabellstar recursion
• Recovery: Banish or send Level 1 FIRE and Diabellstar monsters from the GY through Sinful Spoils and Original Sinful Spoils to re-enter the engine
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck cards

Why it scores here

The score is built on the deck as a system: the Snake-Eye engine has about ten searcher or summon effects, so a Level 1 FIRE starter is live in roughly 43% of opening hands on the three-copy starters and about 89% of hands contain at least one searcher. Interaction is layered across Forbidden Droplet, Droll & Lock Bird, Sinful Spoils of Betrayal, Startling Stare and Hey, Trunade!, which supports stable resilience through a single disruption. Extra Deck closers reach 2500 to 3000 ATK, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based inference and capped by the data gap. The deck scores 60 despite the archetype's popularity: popularity and usage share earned no points, and card scores were never averaged. Side Deck is empty and the list runs only 12 exact Snake-Eye copies of 39, so post-side and purity points stay low.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary (0.8), Stun secondary (0.2) for the interaction-heavy engine; scored with the Combo weights. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 65, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: no post-side plan (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); (0.80*61.3 + 0.20*58) - 1 = 59.6 → 60

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

• Ten searcher or summon effects make the engine reliably accessible
• Layered interaction (Droll, Droplet, Silvera, Stare, Trunade)
• Extra Deck has multiple link closers at 2500 to 3000 ATK

Weaknesses

• Only 12 of 39 copies are exact Snake-Eye, so engine coherence is diluted
• Hey, Trunade! and Kurikara are low-impact slots
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Dependence on a Level 1 FIRE starter (Poplar, Oak, Ash, Birch) to start the engine
• Single-copy Lyrilusc and Kurikara reduce flexibility

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 is Legal under duel-links size rules; Forbidden Droplet, Droll & Lock Bird, Diabellstar, Poplar copy counts; Extra Deck composition: 8 Link and 1 XYZ; Archetype purity: 12 exact Snake-Eye of 39 copies
• Inferred: Starter and searcher hypergeometric accessibility; Interaction and resilience read from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta and format fit (no dated sample); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• 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 — brick, starter and matchup rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with cards list: Knightmare Phoenix, I:P Masquerena, Underworld Goddess, Lyrilusc, Amblowhale, Promethean Princess, Linkuriboh and Zealantis are all in the Extra Deck yet flagged in_this_deck=false, so missing_core and core_present_pct were not used for scoring Side Deck empty, so post-side scoring is provisional