Cyber Dragon Deck #766544 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 31 / Extra 8 / Side 0 — status: Legal with warning.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion/Xyz/Link Summon a large attacker (Cyber End Dragon 4000 ATK piercing, Cyber Dragon Nova, Jizukiru 3300, Regulus 2800) from a Cyber Dragon engine built through searchers and recursion.; Repeated Cyber Dragon special summons from the GY (Core, Nachster, Herz, Repair Plant) to overwhelm the board with 2100-ATK bodies.
• Turn 1 (going first): Cyber Dragon Core or Cyber Repair Plant to search an engine piece, then Cyber Dragon or Jormungardr once the opponent has a monster, extending into a Fusion or Xyz. Relies on the opponent's board for the Cyber Dragon special summon condition.
• Turn 2 (going second): Forbidden Droplet or Book of Eclipse to blank the opponent's first board, then rebuild through GY recursion and Cyber Dragon Core/Nachster into a large Extra Deck monster.
• Recovery: Cyber Repair Plant and Cyber Emergency recover from the GY, Cyber Dragon Core and Nachster revive Cyber Dragons, and Cyberdark Realm adds a Cyberdark monster. Recursion is the main resilience line.
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links is a single game with no Side Deck (side_count 0).

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional engine: searcher text appears in about 96% of going-first hands (Inferred), and the three Cyber Repair Plants, Cyber Emergencies and Cyber Dragon Cores give redundant access to the Cyber Dragon line. Conversion is strong on paper, with 4000-ATK piercing and 3300-ATK Extra Deck threats, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based inferences and the median is scored conservatively. Interaction is layered across several negate effects (Forbidden Droplet, Jizukiru, Regulus, Heosvarog, Underworld) but has no hand traps, which limits going-second resilience. The score comes from consistency, recursion-based resilience and closing power on the system; popularity (Cyber Dragon is a core archetype with 22 copies) earned no points, and card scores were not averaged. The 31-card main deck is one card over the Duel Links limit, which costs a small modifier.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Main deck size over Duel Links limit (-2); Unresolved passcode (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*60.0 + 0.20*58 - 3 ≈ 56.6, rounded to 57

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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

• Dense searcher and recursion package (14 searcher-text cards; Repair Plant, Emergency, Core and Nachster recover the engine).
• Strong Extra Deck closers with piercing and high ATK (Cyber End Dragon, Nova, Jizukiru, Regulus).
• Layered negation across the deck (Forbidden Droplet, Jizukiru, Regulus, Heosvarog, Underworld).

Weaknesses

• No hand traps and no floodgate, so going-second interaction depends on setup.
• Cyber Dragon's summon condition requires an opposing monster, which weakens going-first access.
• Main deck is one card over the size limit, and one passcode is unresolved.

Critical choke points

• Cyber Dragon special summon condition (needs an opponent monster) on turn 1.
• Single-copy Extra Deck enablers (Polymerization, Power Bond) required for Fusion routes.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 31 / Extra 8 / Side 0 against Duel Links size rules (main 20–30, extra 0–9).; All distinct cards legal at 3 copies; no Forbidden or Limited cards in the list.; Archetype is Cyber Dragon with 3 copies of Cyber Dragon and 2 of Cyber Dragon Core in the list.
• Observed: Usage statistics: 22 archetype rows, with Cyber Dragon, Cyberdark Wurm and Cyber Repair Plant at 100% or near-100% inclusion.
• Inferred: Going-first searcher access of about 96% from the hypergeometric proxy.; Recursion-based resilience across at least 3 independent lines.; Negation density and going-second answer count from card text.; Closing power from the attack values and piercing text.
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no dated metagame or tournament link).; Side deck adaptability (Duel Links has 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 match record are absent. Passcode 10443957 could not be resolved to a card and was counted as main. usage_statistics flags Cyber Dragon Nova, Chimeratech Rampage Dragon, Heosvarog and Cyber End Dragon as missing from the deck, but all four are in the Extra Deck list. The in_this_deck and missing_core fields do not reconcile with the card list, so the core-coverage figure (61.9%) is likely understated. No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied.