Destiny Heros Deck #773439 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 63/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 24 / Extra 8 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Link summons into high-ATK bosses (Destiny HERO - Dusktopia 3000 ATK, Elemental HERO Shining Neos Wingman 3100 ATK, Underworld Goddess of the Closed World 3000 ATK) that negate or outclass the opposing board; Grinding through recursion (Malicious, Dreamer, Liquid Soldier, Denier, Cross Crusader) and Plasma/Underworld negation to out-value the opponent over several turns
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a hand-starter (Vision HERO Vyon, Vision HERO Faris, Elemental HERO Stratos, Elemental HERO Liquid Soldier or Destiny HERO - Denier), search or Polymerization a Fusion, then build toward a Destiny boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Belle and Forbidden Droplet to interrupt the first summon or search, then convert the surviving hand into a Fusion or Link boss
• Recovery: Banish or send Malicious and Dreamer from GY for board presence, Liquid Soldier from GY, Denier to top-deck a Destiny HERO, and Cross Crusader to recover from GY
• After siding: None: the list runs 0 side cards in a format that allows up to 9, so there is no tested post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: five distinct single-copy hand-starters (Vyon, Faris, Stratos, Liquid Soldier, Denier) give about a 73% chance of at least one live starter in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred, hypergeometric), and the three Malicious copies add recursion once they are in the GY. It converts that plan through the Fusion and Link extra deck into 3000+ ATK bosses, and the Plasma and Underworld Goddess negations give it real interaction on the board. Its floor and median output are not measured, because the evidence has no combos and no win data, so the conversion scores are structural reads from card text. Resilience comes from two Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Belle and Forbidden Droplet, plus GY recursion that lets it rebuild after a single interruption. Popularity did not earn points: the guides call the archetype strong but the evaluation does not rely on that claim, and the score was not built by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 70/30. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: engine redundancy (2); dead summon route (-2); self-conflict (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*66.0 + 0.20*56 - 1 = 63

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.73 · 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

• Five distinct hand-starters plus three Malicious for GY-driven access
• Strong Fusion and Link boss density at 3000+ ATK
• Redundant recursion through Malicious, Dreamer, Liquid Soldier and Denier
• Hand traps and negation text give layered interaction

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Dreadmaster has no in-list summon route
• Mask of Restrict conflicts with the 3-tribute Plasma line
• Heavy single-copy dependence on Polymerization, Fusion Destiny and Dusktopia

Critical choke points

• Polymerization and Fusion Destiny are single copies that gate the Fusion route
• Vyon's search for Polymerization is a single point of failure for the Fusion line
• Dusktopia is a single copy and the main ceiling boss

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in duel-links: 24 main, 8 extra, 0 side; Mask of Restrict Limited at 1 copy; Card stats and text for every listed card; Archetype spread Destiny 11, Elemental 9, Vision 3, generic 5
• Inferred: P(>=1 of 5 hand-starter singles in hand5) ≈ 0.73; Dreadmaster is a dead card without Clock Tower Prison; Recursion and negation values from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; Matchup and format fit D13 = 50; Side and post-side scores
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is 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/starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage statistics in this deck flags conflict with the cards list for Extra-Deck cards (Xtra HERO Wonder Driver, Destiny HERO - Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer, Underworld Goddess and Xtra HERO Cross Crusader are listed as absent but appear in the cards list), so core-card presence 56 is unreliable archetype core probability (p_open 1.0) is trivially 1 for a 19-copy group and is not used