Memento Deck #770407 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 63/100 (±8 · 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: Fusion/Link pressure from the Memento engine: Mementomictlan Tecuhtlica - Creation King (3000 ATK), Mementoal Tecuhtlica - Combined Creation (5000 ATK, Special Summoned by shuffling 5 other Memento monsters), and Mementotlan Twin Dragon (2800 ATK) as the finishers.; Mementotlan Akihiron lets Level 9+ Memento monsters attack directly for a turn; Lyrilusc - Assembled Nightingale and Knightmare links add flexible extra-deck pressure.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Memento monster (Tatsunootoshigo, Angwitch, Ghattic, Dark Blade) and use the searchers (Angwitch, Ghattic, Bone Party, Akihiron) to fetch the next Memento piece, then Fusion Summon Creation King or Twin Dragon from the Extra Deck.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Forbidden Droplet and Mementotlan Cranium Burst to break the opponent's effect monsters and redirect attacks, then reboot with Mementotlan Mace stealing a monster or a Fusion Summon of Creation King.
• Recovery: Recover through the graveyard: Ghattic re-adds Memento cards from the GY, Creation King banishes from the GY to search Mementomictlan, and Bone Party replaces a destroyed Memento from the Deck.
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no side deck and this list runs 0 side cards.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens on a Memento monster: 17 of its 30 Main Deck cards are monsters, and the 10 searcher-text copies give about an 89% chance of at least one searcher in a going-first 5-card hand (Inferred). Its ceiling is high because the Extra Deck converts Memento material into Creation King, Combined Creation and Twin Dragon, and the graveyard recursion (Ghattic, Creation King, Bone Party) lets it rebuild after a disruption. Interaction is real but not layered: Forbidden Droplet, Cranium Burst and Mace cover effects and control, with no hand traps to meet the opponent's turn. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction on the system as a whole, not from Memento being a popular archetype and not from averaging the individual card scores. No combo boards were supplied, so the floor and median are text-only inference and cap confidence at Medium.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange, with D13 dropped and the remaining weights renormalized over 95 (meta-neutral structural score). Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: engine compactness (2); engine conflicts (-2); banlist exposure (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional): 0.80*63.7 + 0.20*60 = 63.0; modifiers net 0

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.43 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Searcher density: 10 searcher-text copies with 0.89 chance of at least one in a going-first 5-card hand
• Extra Deck converts the Memento engine into 3000-5000 ATK finishers with full 9-slot use
• Graveyard recursion (Ghattic, Creation King, Bone Party) lets the deck rebuild after disruption
• Legal under BanDuelLink with 0 violations

Weaknesses

• No hand traps or floodgates, so the opponent's turn is largely unanswered
• Single 3-copy starter (Tatsunootoshigo) at 0.43 in a going-first 5-card hand
• Off-archetype copies (Droplet, Book of Eclipse, Mulcharmy, Goblin) and non-Memento extra links dilute the engine
• No combo data, so the floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Combined Creation requires 5 other differently named Memento monsters in hand and/or GY to be Special Summoned
• Creation King and Twin Dragon both need Memento material on board or in hand; a board wipe or hand disruption can leave the Extra Deck dead
• Tatsunootoshigo special summon condition (no face-up non-Memento monsters) fails if the opponent's or the player's own non-Memento monster is out

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under BanDuelLink, 30 Main / 9 Extra / 0 Side, 0 violations; Lyrilusc is Limited at 1 copy, legal; Card text for Creation King, Combined Creation, Twin Dragon, Ghattic, Bone Party, Akihiron, Droplet, Cranium Burst, Mace; Archetype usage: 11 of 21 core cards present by name, and Extra Deck cards are shown as absent (see data gaps)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter, monster and searcher probabilities; Consistency, brick and recursion ratings from card text; Interaction density from negation and removal text; Going-first and going-second splits
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability (no tournament data); Post-side plan (no side deck in Duel Links)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup, starter and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Usage stats mark Extra Deck cards (Creation King, Twin Dragon, Chimera, Lyrilusc, Masquerena, Goddess) as absent even though cards[] lists them in the Extra Deck, so core_present_pct 52.4% is probably understated Guide 1484 has an empty snippet and no sections, so no strategic intent could be read Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied