Memento Deck #773640 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Mementomictlan Tecuhtlica - Creation King (3000 ATK, sends 3 Memento cards from Deck/Extra on Summon) and convert it into damage, with Mementoal Tecuhtlica - Combined Creation (5000 ATK, attacks every monster once) as the finisher.; Grind with Mementomictlan recursion plus Cranium Burst / Predaplant Dragostapelia negation and Forbidden Droplet, then close with Mementotlan Twin Dragon or Horned Dragon swings.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Angwitch or Dark Blade (or resolve Bone Party on a Memento in hand) to assemble three Memento names into Creation King, set Mementotlan Cranium Burst, and keep a Memento body plus Mementomictlan for follow-up recursion.
• Turn 2 (going second): Force interaction with Forbidden Droplet and Book of Eclipse (Mulcharmy Fuwalos as a draw engine), then Fusion Summon with Mementotlan Fusion using hand/field material - or GY material once a Memento was destroyed by card effect - into Creation King; Akihiron + Creation King converts into direct attacks for lethal.
• Recovery: Mementomictlan Special Summons from hand/GY when a monster is destroyed, Ghattic and Akihiron add Memento cards back, Creation King banishes itself from the GY to fetch Mementomictlan, and Mementotlan Fusion re-fuses from GY names.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (0 cards) and Duel Links is largely best-of-1, so adaptation is limited to Extra Deck slot choices; the list is otherwise fixed.

Why it scores here

This Memento list is scored as a connected system, not as an average of card scores. In a 30-card Duel Links deck it opens a Memento body almost every game (P(>=1 archetype card in 5) ~ 0.998, and roughly 0.89 for one of the ten true starter / self-Special-Summon cards), and Bone Party, Angwitch, Dark Blade and Tatsunootoshigo all funnel into the same payoff: Mementomictlan Tecuhtlica - Creation King backed by Combined Creation and Cranium Burst. What keeps the score near 60 rather than higher is conversion under pressure - the engine spends the Normal Summon and destroys its own monsters, so a single negation on Angwitch/Dark Blade or removal of the Bone Party target can end the turn, and there are zero recorded combo boards to confirm the median output. The deck does carry a real closing package (Combined Creation at 5000 ATK attacking every monster once, Akihiron granting Level 9+ Memento monsters direct attacks) and a genuine going-second package of 3 Forbidden Droplet, 2 Book of Eclipse and 3 Mulcharmy Fuwalos, so it is not a single-plan deck. No popularity, usage share or archetype representation earned any points here, and no card-level scores were averaged; the empty combo evidence and the absent dated metagame sample are why confidence is Medium and the band is wide.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Non-engine going-second package (2); Hard-garnet burden (-2); Single payoff dependency (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + modifiers

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.68 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Highly redundant engine in a 30-card format: P(>=1 Memento-family card in the opening 5) ~ 0.998 and four different 3-of enablers (Bone Party, Mementotlan Fusion, Tatsunootoshigo, plus Angwitch/Dark Blade as Normal Summons).
• Clear, shared payoff: Creation King is reachable from several different openers instead of one narrow two-card line.
• Real closing power for Duel Links - Combined Creation at 5000 ATK multi-attacks, and Akihiron turns Creation King's Level 9 body into direct attacks.
• Genuine recursion loop: Mementomictlan revives on destruction, Ghattic/Akihiron add back from GY, Creation King banishes itself to fetch the field spell.
• Eight non-engine cards (3 Droplet, 3 Fuwalos, 2 Book of Eclipse) give the deck interaction it could not generate in-engine.

Weaknesses

• Zero hand traps flagged: the deck cannot stop an opponent's turn-1 setup and must answer boards on its own turn.
• Engine destroys its own monsters and depends on the Normal Summon (Angwitch/Dark Blade) or on having a Memento in hand for Bone Party - a single well-placed negation is often turn-ending.
• Only one Mementotlan Cranium Burst, so the in-engine disruption package is thin and unrepeatable.
• Nine one-of main-deck cards reduce access to specific names needed for Combined Creation's five-name shuffle and Horned Dragon's three-name condition.
• No recorded combo boards at all, so ceiling/median/floor rest on card-text inference rather than measured output.
• Extra Deck includes low-synergy slots (Assembled Nightingale needs two Level-1s; I:P Masquerena has no strong Link target) that dilute the coverage.

Critical choke points

• The Normal Summon on Angwitch or Dark Blade being negated or removed leaves only Tatsunootoshigo / Bone Party as extension, and both still need a Memento already in hand.
• Bone Party requires an existing Memento in hand or on field to destroy; drawing it alongside only non-engine cards makes it dead.
• Creation King is the entire payoff - denying the three-material Fusion (or removing it before it converts) collapses the turn with no comparable backup board.
• Mementomictlan at one copy means the recursion engine is often unavailable when it matters most.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 30 Main / 9 Extra / 0 Side, within Duel Links caps; no violations.; Lyrilusc - Assembled Nightingale is Limited to 1 and the deck runs exactly 1 copy.; Card text for every Memento card, Forbidden Droplet, Book of Eclipse, Mulcharmy Fuwalos and the Extra Deck monsters.; Usage-stat inclusion percentages: Twin Dragon 100%, Akihiron/Mementomictlan 100%, Horned Dragon 97.5%, Goblin 95%, Mace 92.5%, Fracture Dance 57.5%, Underworld Goddess 80%.
• Observed: combos_evidence reports 0 total and 0 scored boards ('no parseable boards').; Precomputed hypergeometric table: 3 copies = 0.4335 (hand 5) / 0.5015 (hand 6); 2 copies = 0.3103 / 0.3655; 1 copy = 0.1667 / 0.2.; Archetype core group of 20 copies yields P(>=1 in hand 5) = 0.9982.; usage_statistics core-present flag reports 12/21 core cards, but its per-card in_this_deck flags contradict the resolved list (Twin Dragon, Creation King, Guardian Chimera, I:P, S:P, Nightingale and Phoenix are all listed as absent while they are in the Extra Deck).
• Inferred: Functional starter set of ~10 cards gives P(>=1 in opening 5) ~ 0.89; no-functional-starter rate ~0.20.; Combo ceiling around Creation King plus Cranium Burst, floor around one Memento body, both derived from card text only.; Interruption resilience is limited because the engine converts hand cards into self-destruction and has one dominant Normal Summon.; Going-second viability rests on the 8-card non-engine package and on Mementotlan Fusion's GY-material clause.; Recursion loop strength from Mementomictlan, Ghattic, Akihiron and Creation King's banish-to-search.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null - no dated metagame sample was supplied.; Matchup coverage and format fit (D13) are provisional; tournament_context is unavailable.; Side Deck adaptability (D12) is provisional and largely moot in a best-of-1 Duel Links context.
• 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 exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) - those signals are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. usage_statistics per-card in_this_deck flags conflict with the resolved Extra Deck (seven cards marked absent are actually present), so the 'core_present_pct 57.1' figure was not used as a score input. The single attached guide (id 1484) returned an empty snippet with zero sections, so no human strategic intent could be extracted.