Stardust / Synchron Deck #766575 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 22 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro Summon high-ATK Dragon Synchros (Shooting Quasar Dragon, Red Supernova Dragon, Crimson Dragon, Centur-Ion Auxila) and convert board presence into multi-attack or 3000+ ATK pressure; Stardust Dragon and Trishula as protected or recursive Synchro bodies that keep the board during the opponent's turn
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Tribute or Special Summon a starter (Stardust Trail, Stardust Synchron, Shining Star Dragon) into a Level 4 Tuner, then Synchro Summon a Level 8 to 12 Dragon from the Extra Deck
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Droll and Lock Bird or Forbidden Droplet to answer the first extension, then rebuild through Stardust Trail or Shining Star Dragon from hand and GY
• Recovery: Recover Tuners and Level 7 or 8 Dragon Synchros from the GY through Synchro Rumble, Stardust Synchron, Synchro Overtop and Stardust Trail
• After siding: No side deck is run, so there is no post-side plan; the deck relies on the same 22-card main for every game

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens on a seven-copy starter set (3 Stardust Trail, 1 Stardust Synchron, 2 Shining Star Dragon, 1 Centur-Ion Atrii); the hypergeometric estimate for at least one starter in a 5-card opening is about 0.89 (Inferred). Conversion relies on nine Synchro Monsters in the Extra Deck, which fills all 9 slots, so the deck converts mid-game boards into 3000 to 4000 ATK bodies and multi-attacks (Inferred from card text, with no recorded boards to confirm it). Interaction is the strongest system trait: 9 removal-text and 5 negation-text cards, plus Synchro Chase and Stardust Dragon's negate, give layered answers without relying on a single card. The deck is penalised for its weak system cohesion (0% exact-name archetype purity across Centur-Ion, Stardust, Mulcharmy, Rose and Ice Barrier pieces), high brick and garnet burden from situational spells, a complete lack of side deck, and high pilot complexity. Popularity and the Vietnamese guide's claim that the deck is a meta force did not earn points, and the score was not produced by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60.4, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Hard garnet burden (-2); Engine conflicts (-3); Compact interaction bonus (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*60.4 + 0.20*50 = 58.3, modifiers -5 -> 53

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · 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

• Seven-copy starter set with a 3-copy Stardust Trail
• Nine Extra Deck Synchros at the full cap, spanning levels 8 to 12
• Layered interaction: removal and negation text across 14 cards
• Legal in Duel Links with only Crimson Dragon Limited, and run at 1 copy

Weaknesses

• Zero exact-name archetype purity; engines from several sub-archetypes compete for the same slots
• No side deck
• Several single-copy situational spells (Converging Wishes needs 5 different Dragon Synchros in GY)
• No recorded combos to confirm real conversion or median output

Critical choke points

• Tuner availability: only 4 Tuner Monsters in main (Shining Star x2, Stardust Synchron, Centur-Ion Atrii) gate every Synchro Summon
• Stardust Synchron is a single copy and is the only Tribute-GY engine piece

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Duel Links: 22 main, 9 extra, 0 side; Crimson Dragon Limited at 1 of 1; Archetype composition: 0% exact-name purity, 31 off-archetype copies; Extra Deck: 9 Synchro, all at cap; Role tags: removal_text 9, negation_text 5, searcher_text 4
• Inferred: Starter union ~0.89 in opening 5 (hypergeometric, 7 starter copies); Interaction layering from card text; Combo ceiling from Extra Deck stats and card text; Brick and garnet burden from situational spells; Pilot complexity from GY and field conditions
• Provisional: Meta power and format fit (no dated sample); Going-first and going-second splits (no win-rate telemetry)
• 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 no side deck: post-side adaptability unmeasured usage_statistics marks Extra Deck cards (Crimson Dragon, Shooting Quasar, Stardust Dragon, Satellite Warrior, Ruddy Rose, Red Supernova) as in_this_deck=false although they are present in cards[], so core_present_pct 43.8 is understated (about 13 of 16 by name) and the missing_core list is unreliable archetype_core_group 0.983 (Inferred) is inflated by an 11-copy group spanning several sub-archetypes; not used for the score no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred guide 1417 is a Vietnamese strategy guide with no section structure; its meta-strength claim is unverified