Stardust / Synchron Deck #773639 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro-climb into a multi-negate Dragon Synchro board (Shooting Quasar / Crimson Dragon / Red Supernova Dragon) and close with high-ATK beatdown.; Grind with Centur-Ion Auxila / Primera Primus and Stardust Dragon recursion while chipping with Droplet-backed attacks.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open On Your Mark / Stardust Synchron / Centur-Ion Primera to set up a Tuner, Synchro climb to Crimson Dragon to fetch and summon a Dragon Synchro, and hold Droplet / Droll as interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Strip interaction with Forbidden Droplet, use Droll to choke searches, clear board with Satellite Warrior / Trishula Zero, then convert with a 4000-ATK closer.
• Recovery: Shining Star Dragon summons a Dragon Synchro from the GY, Synchro Rumble re-summons a Tuner or Level 7/8 Dragon Synchro, and Converging Wishes recycles a Stardust Dragon in the grind.
• After siding: No Side Deck in this Duel Links export; adaptation is limited to in-deck flex choices rather than a true transform plan.

Why it scores here

This Stardust / Synchron list is scored as a connected Synchro-combo system, not as an average of its cards. It reliably opens a Tuner-based line through a five-card searcher group (P(≥1 in 5) ≈ 0.765) and 3x On Your Mark, and its Extra Deck covers the archetype's real payoffs (Shooting Quasar, Crimson Dragon, Red Supernova, Satellite Warrior, Trishula Zero), giving it a genuinely high ceiling. However, no recorded boards exist, so floor and median are text-inferred: with 8 of 13 distinct Main Deck cards as 1-ofs and a very thin Centur-Ion sub-engine, the typical hand produces a single Synchro boss plus Droplet/Droll rather than a full multi-negate wall, and a single disruption on the empty-board On Your Mark or a key 1-of is a real choke point. Interaction layering (Crimson Dragon negate/resummon, Centur-Ion True Awakening counter trap, Stardust Dragon) and 4000-ATK closers are genuine strengths, but the absence of a Side Deck limits post-game adaptation. The score reflects consistency plus median output plus interaction on the system; popularity and archetype representation earned nothing here, and individual card scores were never averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 63, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 57. Modifiers: Hard-garnet burden (-2); Unrecoverable choke point (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.77 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.18 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High textual ceiling: Shooting Quasar, Crimson Dragon, Red Supernova, Satellite Warrior and Trishula Zero cover multi-negate and board-wipe lines.
• Real layered interaction: Crimson Dragon negate/resummon, Centur-Ion True Awakening counter trap and Stardust Dragon protection.
• 3x Forbidden Droplet + 3x Droll & Lock Bird give a genuine going-second and anti-search plan.
• Strong recursion tools: Shining Star Dragon, Synchro Rumble and Converging Wishes rebuild from the GY.
• Compact 22-card Main Deck that reaches archetype-standard Extra Deck payoffs.

Weaknesses

• No recorded combo data — floor, median and ceiling are all text-only inference.
• Eight of thirteen distinct Main Deck cards are 1-ofs, raising draw variance and lowering the median.
• Thin Centur-Ion sub-engine without redundancy; pieces can be dead without the rest.
• On Your Mark requires an empty board to search, creating a fragile single choke point.
• No Side Deck, so no true post-side transformation plan in this export.

Critical choke points

• On Your Mark, Get Set, DUEL! needing an empty board to search a Synchron.
• Single copies of Stardust Synchron, Stardust Trail's Tribute trigger and Centur-Ion Atrii as extenders.
• Crimson Dragon (Limited to 1) as the bridge to the biggest Dragon Synchro payoffs.
• Dependence on GY setup (5 Dragon Synchros for Converging Wishes, Synchro count for Satellite Warrior).

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Legal, Main 22 / Extra 9 / Side 0, no violations in duel-links size rules.; Crimson Dragon is Limited (legal copies 1) and run at 1 copy.; Card text excerpts for all listed cards.
• Observed: usage statistics inclusion percentages: Stardust Trail 100%, Crimson Dragon 100%, Stardust Synchron / Synchro Rumble / Converging Wishes ~90.9%, Forbidden Droplet ~72.7%, Droll ~63.6%.; Usage in this deck flags are unreliable: they mark Crimson Dragon, Quasar, Ruddy Rose, Stardust Dragon, Satellite Warrior, Trishula Zero and Red Supernova as not-in-deck even though the resolved card list includes them at 1 copy each in the Extra Deck.
• Inferred: Starter/searcher draw probability P(≥1 in 5) ≈ 0.765 from the 5-copy searcher group.; Brick estimate ~18% from eight 1-ofs and situational traps.; Ceiling and median read from card text only (combo data total 0).; Interaction layering and resilience conclusions from card text and copy counts.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null/provisional; no dated metagame sample or tournament link is supplied.; Matchup and format-fit claims are provisional.
• 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 exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. usage statistics in this deck flags conflict with the resolved Extra Deck card list; the card list was trusted.