Chimera Deck #773636 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Graveyard-centric, Fusion
• Format: duel-links

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Chimera bosses (Berfomet the Mythical King of Phantom Beasts / Chimera the Illusion Beast) and out-grind the opponent with quick-play Chimera Fusion plus graveyard recursion.; Horus bodies (Imsety / Hapi revived by King's Sarcophagus) into Number 90: Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord, or a Vision Resonator line into Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying, then close with Chimera the Illusion Beast's multi-attack.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Gazelle the King of Mythical Claws or Mirror Swordknight to fetch Chimera Fusion, fuse into Berfomet the Mythical King of Phantom Beasts, and keep a second Chimera Fusion in hand for the opponent's Main Phase; set King's Sarcophagus if drawn.
• Turn 2 (going second): Tribute a problem monster with Radian the Multidimensional Kaiju, use Chimera Fusion with hand/field material to build a boss, then push with Chimera the Illusion Beast; D.D. Crow and Ghost Ogre cover the opponent's setup.
• Recovery: Re-use Chimera Fusion's graveyard effect while a card named 'Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast' is on field or in grave, revive Imsety/Hapi from the graveyard with King's Sarcophagus, and rebuy bodies through Berfomet the Mythical King of Phantom Beasts.
• After siding: None built — the export contains a 0-card Side Deck, so there is no defined best-of-3 adaptation.

Why it scores here

This Duel Links Chimera build has a real engine: Mirror Swordknight, Gazelle the King of Mythical Claws, Big-Winged Berfomet and Cornfield Coatl all search toward Chimera Fusion, so roughly 96% of five-card hands see at least one engine piece, and it converts that into a Berfomet the Mythical King of Phantom Beasts body with a second Quick-Play Chimera Fusion held for the opponent's turn. Grind is genuinely good — graveyard Fusion recycling, name-changing bosses and a small Horus package that revives Imsety and Hapi from the graveyard keep the deck in long games, and Chimera the Illusion Beast at 3100 ATK with multi-attack plus two Kaiju gives it real closing reach. What holds the score down is construction rather than the engine: The Gaze of Timaeus and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon are uncastable because no 'Dark Magician' or 'Dark Magician Girl' exists anywhere in the 30 cards, and Crimson Gaia has no 'Red Dragon Archfiend' to search, so several slots are dead weight in a format with 30 slots and one Normal Summon. Interaction is thin (three hand traps and a single Trap) and there is no Side Deck at all, so the deck has no built-in best-of-3 adaptation. No recorded combo boards exist for this list, so floor, median and ceiling were read from card text, and the score reflects the system's consistency, grind and dead-slot burden — it is not an average of the individual card scores, and the archetype's popularity earned it no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: Dead card package (-3); Engine conflict / Fusion lock (-2); Horus value engine (2); No post-side plan (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.62 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.12 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense search suite into Chimera Fusion (Mirror Swordknight, Gazelle, Big-Winged Berfomet, Cornfield Coatl, Nightmare Apprentice) — ~96% of five-card hands contain an engine piece.
• Strong graveyard loop: Chimera Fusion's GY activation plus multiple bosses that count as 'Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast' keep the engine live after the first board is broken.
• Horus mini-engine revives Imsety/Hapi from the graveyard under King's Sarcophagus, supplying free bodies and Rank 8 access to Number 90: Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord.
• Chimera the Illusion Beast (3100 ATK, multi-attack) plus two Kaiju give the deck real closing and going-second reach.
• Quick-Play Chimera Fusion lets the deck produce interaction on the opponent's Main Phase.

Weaknesses

• Dead slots: The Gaze of Timaeus and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon are uncastable with no 'Dark Magician' in the list, and Crimson Gaia has no 'Red Dragon Archfiend' to search.
• Big-Winged Berfomet's Fusion-only Extra Deck lock conflicts with the Xyz, Synchro and Link cards in the Extra Deck.
• Thin interaction for a 30-card format: three hand traps and a single Trap card.
• No Side Deck and no post-side plan, so there is no best-of-3 adaptation.
• Many one-of tech cards (Vision Resonator, Nightmare Magician, Farfa, Fiendish Golem) raise hand variance and compete for the Normal Summon.

Critical choke points

• The single Normal Summon on Gazelle the King of Mythical Claws or Big-Winged Berfomet — negating that search usually ends the turn.
• Big-Winged Berfomet's 'Fusion monsters only' Extra Deck lock shuts off Number 90, Chengying and Underworld Goddess for that turn.
• Drawing The Gaze of Timaeus or Crimson Gaia, which cannot advance any line in this list.
• Dependence on one Quick-Play Fusion plus a body, with no way to rebuild if both are stripped.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Main 30/30, Extra 9/9, Side 0, no restricted cards under BanDuelLink — status Legal.; Card text resolved for all 27 distinct cards (19 main, 8 extra).; No card named 'Dark Magician' or 'Dark Magician Girl' appears in the 30-card list, making The Gaze of Timaeus and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon uncastable.; Side Deck contains 0 cards.
• Observed: Archetype CardUsageStat rows: Mirror Swordknight 100% (3 copies), Chimera Fusion 100% (3), Nightmare Apprentice 100% (1), Big-Winged Berfomet 57% (2), Cornfield Coatl 57% (2), Gazelle the King of Mythical Claws 57% (2).; Copy histogram: 10 one-ofs, 7 two-ofs, 2 three-ofs across the 30-card Main Deck.
• Inferred: P(≥1 Chimera engine piece in a five-card hand) ≈ 0.96 from a 12–13 card engine; functional-starter rate ≈ 0.85 because Chimera Fusion needs a legal material body.; Interaction density is thin: three hand traps plus one Trap in 30 cards.; Berfomet's Fusion-only lock reduces the value of the Number 90 / Chengying / Underworld Goddess slots.; Two of nine Extra Deck slots are effectively unreachable in this configuration.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null — no dated metagame sample or win-rate telemetry is supplied.; Matchup spread, going-first/going-second win rates and brick rates are unknown for this list.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied for this list — 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, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates); those signals remain Inferred or Unknown. usage_statistics report Chimera the King of Phantom Beasts, Number 90 and Berfomet the Mythical King of Phantom Beasts as not in the deck while the resolved card list places them in the Extra Deck — treat per-card inclusion flags as approximate. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied.