Destiny Heros Deck #766001 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Board-ending Fusion/Link threats: Elemental HERO Shining Neos Wingman (3100 ATK), Destiny HERO - Dusktopia (3000 ATK), Elemental HERO Flame Wingman - Infernal Rage, and Xtra HERO Cross Crusader links that recycle HEROs from the GY.; Vision HERO / Elemental HERO attrition and the Plasma equip-and-negate line for pressure through single boss monsters.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on HERO searchers and starters (Vision HERO Vyon, Elemental HERO Stratos, Vision HERO Faris, Destiny HERO - Malicious from the GY) to reach Polymerization or Fusion Destiny and a Fusion Summon into a Shining Neos Wingman or Dusktopia board.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird, D.D. Crow, Effect Veiler and Cursed Seal of the Forbidden Spell to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Destiny HERO - Plasma and Cross Crusader links.
• Recovery: Recycle HEROs from the GY through Malicious, Denier, Vyon and Cross Crusader's Special Summon effect, then rebuild a Fusion or Link board from the Extra Deck.
• After siding: Not applicable: the list runs no Side Deck (side_count 0) and Duel Links is not evaluated here as a best-of-3 format.

Why it scores here

The deck's consistency comes from a dense HERO core: the archetype-core group gives P(at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.991, and several searchers (Vyon, Stratos, Cross Crusader) plus Polymerization and Fusion Destiny convert hand cards into a Fusion or Link board (Inferred). Interaction is real but layered across lines: five hand traps (P(≥1 in a 6-card going-second hand) ≈ 0.70), Plasma's negate-and-equip, and roughly 10 negation and 13 removal text hints (Inferred from text). Closing power comes from 3000–3100 ATK Fusions, with 9/9 Extra Deck slots used by Fusion and Link monsters that recycle HEROs. Floor and median output are unmeasured because no combos were supplied, and the guides' claims that the deck is 'top tier' and popular were not credited as power; the score comes from consistency, interaction and system coherence, not from averaging card scores. Off-engine slots (Forbidden Droplet, D.D. Crow, Contact, Egyptian God Sphere Mode, Dreadmaster needing Clock Tower Prison) and the lack of any post-side or matchup evidence hold the score near the middle of the range.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 63.2, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense HERO starter and searcher package with a 99% core-group opening rate (Inferred)
• Five hand traps and a negate-plus-equip Plasma give real going-second interaction (Inferred)
• Extra Deck fully used by Fusion and Link threats with GY recursion through Cross Crusader (Verified composition, Inferred function)

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck and no post-side plan (Verified composition)
• Several main-deck slots need conditions the list does not provide: Dreadmaster (Clock Tower Prison) and Winged Dragon Sphere Mode (3 Tributes) (Inferred from text)
• No recorded combo boards, so ceiling and median are unmeasured (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Opening with a Fusion starter: the route to Shining Neos Wingman or Dusktopia depends on Polymerization (1 copy) or Fusion Destiny (1 copy) plus a HERO starter (Inferred)
• Going-second turn 1 relies on hand traps that are dead if the opponent makes no matching action (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 30 Main / 9 Extra / 0 Side within Duel Links size rules; no violations or restricted cards; Copy histogram sums to 30; 20 distinct Main and 7 distinct Extra cards reconcile with the card list; Hypergeometric probabilities checked by hand (e.g. P(≥1 of 3 in hand 5) = 0.4335; P(≥1 of 5 in hand 6) = 0.7018); Exact archetype purity 0% and archetype spread from the composition block
• Observed: Usage stats show 100% inclusion for Vyon, Plasma, Faris, Stratos, Malicious, Vincent-era core cards and Fusion Destiny, all present here
• Inferred: Consistency from the core-group probability and starter/searcher text; Interaction quality from negation and removal text (Plasma, Droll, Crow, Veiler, Cursed Seal); Going-first and going-second splits from the hand-trap probabilities and text; Closing power from listed ATK values of Dusktopia, Shining Neos Wingman and Flame Wingman
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link or win-rate telemetry); Side-deck adaptability (no Side Deck)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent usage_statistics Extra-Deck rows (Underworld Goddess 98127546, Cross Crusader 58004362, Wonder Driver 1948619, Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer 60461804) report in_this_deck=false although the same card_ids appear in the cards list in the Extra zone; core_present_pct (60) is therefore understated and the reconciliation needs checking in preprocess.py Duel Links Skill (e.g. the Destiny Effect and Aester Phoenix skill mentioned by guides) is not in the evidence and is not scored 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