Memento Deck #770394 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 68/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Memento boss monsters (Mementoal Tecuhtlica - Combined Creation at 5000 ATK, Creation King, Chimera, Twin Dragon) after searching and recycling Memento monsters through the graveyard; Link Summons (Masquerena, Little Knight, Underworld Goddess) and Horned Dragon / Akihiron beatdown from the graveyard recursion loop
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Normal Summon a searcher (Angwitch, Ghattic or Tatsunootoshigo) to add or Special Summon the next Memento, then Bone Party or Fusion into a Creation King or Twin Dragon on turn 2
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird on the opponent's search, Forbidden Droplet and Dark Blade to clear face-up cards, then rebuild the board through Memento Special Summons from the graveyard
• Recovery: Graveyard recursion: Creation King banishes from the GY to add Mementomictlan, Ghattic adds a Memento from the GY, and Akihiron and Horned Dragon revive from the GY when the board is cleared
• After siding: No side deck is run (0 side cards), so no post-side plan exists in this format export

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: it reliably opens a functional Memento plan because 11 searcher effects and 19 Memento-core copies make the starter draw probability high (about 0.92 for a searcher and above 0.99 for an archetype-core card in a 5-card hand, both proxy estimates). It converts that opening into board presence through graveyard recursion (Creation King, Ghattic, Akihiron, Horned Dragon) and Fusion or Link boss monsters with 2800 to 5000 ATK, which drives the Offensive and Floor scores. Interaction is broad (18 removal-text cards, 4 negation-text cards, 3 hand traps) but not layered against a going-second board, so the going-second score is held back. Popularity and the Memento usage statistics confirm this list is a standard build, but they did not add points on their own, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score. Dark Magician of Destruction and The Gaze of Timaeus are dead slots without a Dark Magician in the main deck, which lowers the Extra-Deck and conflict scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange profile; meta-neutral (D13 dropped and weights re-normalized for Structural). Structural ≈ 69, Going First ≈ 72, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 68. Modifiers: Engine compactness and coherent support (2); Engine conflicts and dead slots (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Final = 0.80*69 + 0.20*68 = 68.8, minus 1 modifier = 67.8, rounded to 68

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · 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 suite (11 copies) gives reliable T1 access to a Memento engine
• Graveyard recursion gives repeat value after interruption
• High-ATK Fusion and Link bosses for closing

Weaknesses

• Dark Magician of Destruction and The Gaze of Timaeus are dead without a Dark Magician
• Limited going-second board breaking beyond Droll and Forbidden Droplet
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Memento Fusion and Creation King require several Memento monsters in hand or GY; a board wipe before the Fusion removes the material

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal: 30 main (range 20-30), 9 extra (range 0-9), 0 side, no violations, all cards Unlimited; Card text and role-hint tags for all 30 main and 9 extra cards; Exact archetype purity 56.4% (22 of 39 non-extra copies... 22 of 30 main copies)
• Observed: Usage statistics show 12 of 21 core cards present by main-deck flags; extra-zone usage flags conflict with the card list
• Inferred: Starter and searcher probabilities from hypergeometric draw odds; Floor, median and ceiling from text only, with no recorded boards; Dead-slot assessment for Dark Magician of Destruction and The Gaze of Timaeus
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and side-deck adaptability (no tournament or 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 No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Usage statistics mark extra-zone core cards (Twin Dragon, Creation King, Chimera, Masquerena, Little Knight, Underworld Goddess) as not in deck, but the card list includes them; card list used as truth Deck title is null