Red-Eyes Deck #766543 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 45/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon Lord of the Red through Red-Eyes Transmigration (searched by Pre-Preparation of Rites / Preparation of Rites), then use its once-per-turn destruction and board pressure; Extra-Deck Link, Xyz and Fusion monsters, but most of their material and enabler cards are not in the Main Deck
• Turn 1 (going first): Search Transmigration with Pre-Preparation of Rites or Red-Eyes Insight, Ritual Summon Lord of the Red by tributing or banishing Red-Eyes monsters, then use Lord to destroy an opposing monster
• Turn 2 (going second): Use a searcher on the opponent's turn to set up Lord of the Red, with Lord's repeatable destruction as the main interaction. Dark Dragoon and Dark Paladin are not reliably live because the deck runs no Dark Magician
• Recovery: Recur Red-Eyes monsters from the GY with Red-Eyes Wyvern and Red-Eyes Spirit, and search again with Red-Eyes Insight or Preparation of Rites
• After siding: No Side Deck is run, and Duel Links has no side-deck step in this evaluation, so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably: 13 searcher-text cards give about a 0.96 chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand, and Pre-Preparation of Rites can fetch both Red-Eyes Transmigration and a Ritual Monster, which gives a real two-card bootstrap. Conversion is capped by the list itself: there are no recorded boards to measure a ceiling or median, the Ritual route depends on Red-Eyes monsters for material and Ritual Spells that are missing for Sauravis and Illusion of Chaos, and roughly 38.5% of the main deck is exact-name Red-Eyes. The Extra Deck is the largest weakness: Dark Dragoon, Dark Paladin and TY-PHON need Dark Magician or Level 12 material the deck does not run, and the Dark Magician-themed support cards are only partly live. Popularity was not credited: the usage-statistics data says Red-Eyes is a common archetype, but that did not add points. The score is the system result of consistency, Lord of the Red interaction and recovery, minus the engine conflicts; it was not built by averaging the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 54, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-4); dead enablers (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional)

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

• Three 3-copy searchers (Pre-Preparation of Rites, Preparation of Rites, Red-Eyes Insight) give high opening-hand access
• Lord of the Red provides repeatable once-per-turn destruction on both players' turns
• Red-Eyes Wyvern and Red-Eyes Spirit recover Red-Eyes monsters from the GY
• Legal size and copy limits, all cards Unlimited on BanDuelLink

Weaknesses

• Dark Magician theme support is in the Main Deck, but no Dark Magician is run
• Sauravis and Illusion of Chaos are dead without their Ritual Spells
• Extra Deck cards depend on Dark Magician, Buster Blader or Level 12 material that is absent
• No Red-Eyes Black Dragon in the Main Deck, although it is a 60%-inclusion core card

Critical choke points

• Red-Eyes material in the GY for Lord of the Red Ritual Summon
• Ritual Spell Red-Eyes Transmigration: three copies in 30 cards

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 30 Main and 9 Extra cards within duel-links size rules; all cards Unlimited; Archetype spread: Red-Eyes 15, generic 14, Dark Magician 6, others 5 copies; exact-name purity 38.5%; Hypergeometric draw table (3-copy cards 0.4335 going first, 0.5015 going second)
• Inferred: Lord of the Red interaction and recovery are the deck's main system strengths; Dark Dragoon, Dark Paladin and TY-PHON are not reliably live without Dark Magician or Level 12 material; Red-Eyes Insight and the Pre-Preparation/Preparation searchers give high access to Transmigration
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample; Side plan and post-side adaptability: no Side Deck and no post-side data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent One main-deck passcode (74677422, 2 copies) could not be resolved to a card and was counted as main with an unknown role usage_statistics in_this_deck flags appear to consider only the Main Deck, so Extra Deck core cards (Dark Dragoon, Masquerena, Artemis, Underworld Goddess, Little Knight, Dark Armed, TY-PHON, Dark Paladin) show in_this_deck false even though they are present No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied