Dragon Link Deck #771412 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro boss beatdown from Red Dragon Archfiend / Red Nova / Red Supernova style Synchros, with Resonator Tuners as the summon bridge; Light and Darkness Ritual line (Black Luster Soldier, Magician of Dark Chaos, Black Chaos) as a second boss route
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Resonator or Archfiend starter (Resonator Call, Vision Resonator, Crimson Gaia), summon a Tuner, then Synchro into a Red Dragon Archfiend or Scarred Dragon Archfiend; keep Mind Mirror Force, Gravity Collapse or Dominus Impulse up for the first opposing interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird) to break the opponent's first line, then rebuild through Resonator searches and GY recursion (Soul Resonator, Synkron Resonator, Chain Resonator)
• Recovery: Recover from GY via Synkron Resonator and Vision Resonator searches, Griffoh discard effects, Crimson Call, and Red Dragon Archfiend's Chains
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan (see D12)

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected Synchro system: the Resonator searchers (about 20 search-text cards, P at least one in opening 5 approximately 0.90, Inferred) and 15 Tuners give it a reliable route to a Synchro summon. Its ceiling comes from the Extra Deck boss set (Red Dragon Archfiend x2, Red Nova, Red Supernova, Red Hypernova Dragon), and its interaction density (Mind Mirror Force, Gravity Collapse x2, Dominus Impulse x2, Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird) is what earns most of the points. The median and floor are only estimated, because no recorded boards exist, so D3 and D4 carry Inferred labels and widen the uncertainty band. Points were not earned from the Dragon Link label (0 exact-name copies, and only 1 of 25 core usage cards present) or from averaging individual card scores. The deck has no side deck, which caps D12 and removes any post-side plan, and the two-shell build (Resonator/Archfiend plus Light and Darkness Ritual) dilutes engine coherence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 65.2, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 71, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: engine_dilution (-2); no Side Deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*65.2 + 0.20*52 - 4 = 58.6, rounded to 59

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥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

• Deep Synchro boss set (4000 to 4500 ATK ceilings) with 15 Synchros in the Extra Deck
• Dense interaction and six hand traps for both going-first and going-second responses
• Resonator searcher and Tuner chain gives redundant starter access

Weaknesses

• Two engine shells (Resonator/Archfiend and Light and Darkness Ritual) dilute the core
• No side deck (0 cards), so the matchup plan cannot adapt between games
• Off-archetype density is high (71 of 77 copies do not match the exact archetype name), so 'Dragon Link' is not a reliable identity for this list

Critical choke points

• Red Dragon Archfiend x2 as the main boss: a single unrecovered removal or negation line leaves the Synchro shell without its top boss
• Tuner availability: 15 Tuners in 34 monsters means a Tuner-light hand cannot start a Synchro

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 56 Main and 15 Extra within size rules; all four restricted cards within legal copies; Card stats for Extra bosses and Resonator Tuners; Copy histogram and type spread from composition
• Inferred: Starter access P approximately 0.90 from searcher group; Going-second hand trap P 0.51; Interaction density scored from text hints (regex scaffold); Ceiling and floor read from card text, since no boards exist
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup/format fit (no tournament 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 for going-first/second, matchup, or brick/starter rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null; archetype label 'Dragon Link' does not match the card list (0 exact-name copies), and the usage core is 1 of 25 present no side deck supplied (side 0)