Memento Deck #773642 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Grind the opponent out with recursion, destruction-triggered floats, and Memento Fusion bosses (Creation King / Twin Dragon / Tecuhtlica) that convert destroyed Memento names into card advantage and a large beatdown board.; Mementoal Tecuhtlica - Combined Creation (5000 ATK, multi-attack) plus Mementotlan Akihiron's direct-attack enabler for an OTK swing.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Memento name (Tatsunootoshigo self-SS or Angwitch normal summon), chain destruction effects (Bone Party / own-effect pops) into a Memento Fusion boss plus one carry-over interaction card (Droplet / Impermanence / Fracture Dance).
• Turn 2 (going second): Lead with Forbidden Droplet or Book of Eclipse to strip an established board, resolve a Fusion summon through the cleared board using Mementomictlan Fusion's GY-material clause, then close with large ATK bosses or Underworld Goddess / S:P removal.
• Recovery: Rebuild from the GY: Mementomictlan revives a lower-Level Memento, Ghattic self-recurs when sent by a Memento effect, Akihiron and Mace add back names, and Creation King / Tecuhtlica can be re-Summoned from the GY.
• After siding: No Side Deck is configured (Side Deck size 0); in a Duel Links ranked context the plan is the same main-deck plan, optionally re-tuning backrow counts between matches.

Why it scores here

This Memento list is a compact midrange engine: a searcher-text group of about 11 copies gives roughly 0.92 odds of a live Memento name in the opening five, and the archetype's destruction-triggered floats keep lines alive after a single interruption, which is what actually earns the consistency and resilience points. Its ceiling (Creation King, Twin Dragon, Tecuhtlica, Guardian Chimera) is real, but with zero recorded boards the median hand still resolves to roughly one boss plus one interaction card, so the score reflects the floor and median rather than the best line. Interaction is layered but not dense — three Forbidden Droplet, two Impermanence, one Fracture Dance and boss pop effects — while the going-second package (Droplet, Book of Eclipse, Underworld Goddess, Phoenix, S:P) is genuinely functional. The score is capped by a real brick burden from several 1-of high-Level monsters, an empty Side Deck, and no dated metagame sample, so Meta Power stays provisional. Popularity and the 100%-inclusion archetype cards did NOT earn points here, and no individual card scores were averaged — the 64 comes from system-level consistency, recursion, and median output measured against format reality and cost.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 69, Going Second ≈ 70, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 63. Modifiers: hard-garnet burden (-2); engine compactness (1); no post-side plan (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.06 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Very high access to a live Memento name (searcher group P(≥1 in 5) ≈ 0.92) in a compact 30-card shell.
• Strong recursion engine: Mementomictlan, Ghattic, Akihiron, Mace and Creation King all rebuild from the GY.
• Layered going-second package in Forbidden Droplet, Book of Eclipse, Underworld Goddess and Knightmare Phoenix.
• Meaningful closing power with 5000 ATK Tecuhtlica, 3300 Guardian Chimera and direct-attack enabling via Akihiron.
• Full nine-slot Extra Deck serving both Fusion bosses and generic link removal.

Weaknesses

• High-Level 1-of garnets (Tecuhtlica, Horned Dragon, Akihiron) create real opening-hand brick risk.
• Median output is modest — most hands resolve to one boss plus one interaction card.
• Book of Eclipse gifts the opponent draws in the End Phase, a real cost against grindy decks.
• No Side Deck and no sided-game data, so adaptability is unproven.
• No recorded combo boards anywhere in the evidence, forcing text-only inference of floor and ceiling.

Critical choke points

• The first Memento destruction effect — if the trigger is negated or the destroyed name is banished, the whole Fusion/float chain stalls.
• Creation King's Fusion Summon cost (3 Memento monsters) — removing the materials before resolution blanks the main payoff.
• Reliance on Graveyard contents for Fusion and recursion — graveyard hate or banishing effects sharply reduce recovery.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Legal: 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side, no size or copy-limit violations.; Lyrilusc - Assembled Nightingale is Limited at 1 copy and the deck runs exactly 1.; All 26 distinct cards in the resolved list carry card text excerpts.
• Observed: Resolved Extra Deck contains 8 distinct cards covering Fusion (4), Link (4) and Xyz (1).; Usage statistics show 12 of 21 archetype-core entries present, but the in this deck flags conflict with the resolved card array (Twin Dragon, Creation King, Chimera, I:P, S:P, Nightingale, Underworld Goddess are all physically in the Extra Deck).
• Inferred: P(≥1 Memento searcher in opening 5) ≈ 0.92 from the searcher-text group of 11 copies.; Median board inferred as one boss plus one interaction card given zero recorded combos.; Recursion and interruption-resilience ratings derived from destruction-trigger and GY-return card text.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null — no dated metagame sample or tournament link was supplied.; Matchup fit and format positioning cannot be measured without a dated environment sample.
• 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) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. usage statistics in this deck flags contradict the resolved cards array for seven Extra Deck cards; the resolved list was treated as ground truth.