Dinos Deck #770399 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ultimate Conductor Tyranno (3500 ATK boss) and Extra-Deck Link/Xyz/Fusion boards built from Dinosaur starters; Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction and Underworld Goddess as high-ATK closers once the Extra Deck is summoned
• Turn 1 (going first): Fossil Dig or Animadorned Archosaur to find a Dinosaur starter (Miscellaneousaurus, Souleating Oviraptor, Babycerasaurus), then extend into a Level 4 Dinosaur for an Xyz (Evolzar) or Link (Knightmare Phoenix, S:P Little Knight) summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Little interaction: the deck has no hand traps or floodgates, so going second relies on Extra-Deck negates (Evolzar Dolkka, Evolzar Laggia, Evolzar Lars, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Underworld Goddess) after the opponent has built a board
• Recovery: Dinosaur graveyard recursion: Babycerasaurus when destroyed, Miscellaneousaurus banishing Dinosaurs from the GY, Giant Rex banished with ATK gain, and Double Evolution Pill to reuse the GY
• After siding: No side deck is registered (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan; the format's side slots are unused

Why it scores here

The deck opens a Dinosaur starter reliably: each of Miscellaneousaurus, Souleating Oviraptor, Babycerasaurus and Diabellstar runs three copies, and nine searcher-text cards give P(at least one searcher in an opening 5) of about 0.86 (Inferred). It converts that starter into Level 4 and Dinosaur-material Extra-Deck summons, and its recursion from the Graveyard (Babycerasaurus, Miscellaneousaurus, Giant Rex, Double Evolution Pill) gives it a second route after a single removal. The Extra Deck contributes several negation-capable Xyz and Link monsters, which is its main interaction; it has no hand traps, so it is weaker going second. Combo ceiling and median are scored from text only because no recorded boards exist. The score comes from consistency, recursion and Extra-Deck coverage on the system, not from Dinos being a popular archetype, and not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59.8, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Evolution sub-engine dilution (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*59.8 + 0.20*58 = 59.4, then modifiers -2 = 57.4, rounded to 57

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-copy Dinosaur starters with nine searchers give high access to a live engine (Inferred)
• Graveyard recursion gives more than one route after removal (Inferred)
• Strong Extra-Deck closers and negates cover both Xyz and Link lines (Verified stats, Inferred use)

Weaknesses

• No hand traps or floodgates, so the going-second board is weak (Observed)
• No side deck, so no post-side adjustment is possible (Verified)
• Four 1-copy Evolution cards make the deck less consistent than its starters suggest (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Opening hand without any Dinosaur starter or searcher, which the hypergeometric estimate puts at roughly 0.14 for a single 3-copy starter (Inferred)
• Going second against an established board with no hand trap in hand (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 30 cards and Extra Deck 9 cards are within the Duel Links size rules (20-30 main, 0-9 extra); All copy counts are within legal limits; no restricted cards; Card stats and text as given in the evidence pack
• Observed: Composition: 19 monsters, 10 Spells, 1 Trap; 11 Level 0 non-monsters; Usage stats show 100% inclusion for several core cards not in this list
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter access (P=0.43 for one 3-copy starter; P=0.86 for a searcher); Interaction strength of Extra-Deck negates; Going-second weakness due to no hand traps; Combo ceiling and median from card text only
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13); Post-side plan (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 absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN: going-first/second, matchup and brick/starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Usage-stat join is inconsistent: Extra-Deck cards Linkuriboh, Evolzar Dolkka, Underworld Goddess and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon show in_this_deck=false although they are in the Extra Deck list; core_cards_present (10/25) therefore undercounts, and a corrected count from the card list is 16/25 Deck title is null; deck name not available