Vaalmonica Deck #770406 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon 2500-3000 ATK Link Monsters (Zebufera x2, Duralume x2, Varar, Underworld Goddess) once Resonance Counters are built in the Pendulum Zone; Xyz (Number 60: Dugares, Primathmech Laplacian) and Vaalmonica Creation's +1200 ATK for Vaalmonica Link Monsters at 6+ counters
• Turn 1 (going first): Place Angello Vaalmonica and Dimonno Vaalmonica in the Pendulum Zone (directly or via searchers such as Vaalmonica Versare, Scelta, Disarmonia, Invitare, the Agathokakological Voice, Selettrice) to start accumulating Resonance Counters, then Link Summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Answer the opponent's board with Effect Veiler x2, Nibiru, Dark Ruler No More, Forbidden Droplet or Vaalmonica Ereditare, then rebuild the Pendulum pair and Link Summon
• Recovery: Searchers (6 cards with searcher text) re-find a Pendulum monster or Vaalmonica Spell/Trap; Mulcharmy Fuwalos (x2) supplies cards when the opponent Special Summons
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side 0), so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan at a moderate rate: at least one of its five Pendulum monsters is in the going-first opening hand about 76% of the time, but both Angello and Dimonno together only about 20% of the time, so the engine depends on a pendulum pair that is often missing and on the six searchers to recover it. Conversion is strong on paper: once 3+ Resonance Counters exist, four Extra Deck Link slots and Varar unlock 2500-3000 ATK bodies, and the card text supports this ceiling. Interaction is dense (Effect Veiler x2, Nibiru, Dark Ruler No More, Forbidden Droplet, Vaalmonica Ereditare, Underworld Goddess), which lifts the going-second and endboard scores. The score is not driven by Vaalmonica being a popular archetype (19 of 31 copies are exact-name, but no tournament or meta share was supplied), and card scores were not averaged; the deck is scored as one system whose consistency and median output are unmeasured, since no recorded boards exist. Confidence is low because there are no combos, no tournament data, and no side deck.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59.5, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Resonance engine dependence (-3); Pendulum pair choke point (-2); Off-archetype dead weight (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers (-6) = 47.6 + 9.6 - 6 = 51.2 -> 51

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.76 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.2 · 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

• Legal in Duel Links: 22 main and 9 extra within limits, no violations
• Dense interaction: five negation-text cards and three hand traps
• High-ATK Link bosses (2500-3000) with text-based removal and negation
• Six searchers reduce the risk of a dead opening hand

Weaknesses

• Pendulum pair (Angello plus Dimonno) is needed for the engine; both are in hand only about 20% of the time
• Four Extra Deck slots depend on 3+ Resonance Counters
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded boards, so the median output is unknown

Critical choke points

• Getting Angello and Dimonno into the Pendulum Zone (or searching them) before the opponent's disruption
• Accumulating 3 Resonance Counters on Fairy or Fiend Pendulum monsters before Link Summoning Zebufera or Duralume

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status and deck sizes (22 main, 9 extra, 0 side) within Duel Links size rules; Hey, Trunade! is Semi-Limited, 1 copy of 2 allowed; Archetype purity 19 of 31 exact-name copies; 12 off-archetype; Card text excerpts for the Pendulum, Link and interaction cards
• Inferred: P(>=1 Pendulum monster in hand 5) ~0.76; P(both Pendulum monsters in hand 5) ~0.20; Consistency and brick estimates from composition and text; Interaction density and going-second strength from card text; Pendulum summon level range reasoning (general game rules)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup or brick rate usage_statistics.missing_core lists Zebufera, Duralume, Varar, I:P Masquerena and Number 60 as absent although they appear in the Extra Deck with copies; the usage join looks inconsistent and was not relied on for scoring core group p_open=1 uses 18 copies while exact-name purity counts 19; the core group is too broad to be meaningful no side deck registered, so no post-side data