Memento Deck #773643 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 65/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Blind-Second / OTK, Fusion
• Format: duel-links

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion-based midrange beatdown: Mementomictlan Tecuhtlica - Creation King (3000 ATK) and Mementotlan Twin Dragon (2800 ATK) backed by searches and in-engine pops, closing with Mementoal Tecuhtlica - Combined Creation (5000 ATK) or direct attacks from Akihiron's Level 9+ enabling effect.; Board-breaking turn: Book of Eclipse / Forbidden Droplet / Kumongous / Hey, Trunade clear the way, then Fusion monsters plus Assembled Nightingale direct attacks convert into 4000 LP lethal.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Mementotlan Angwitch or Dark Blade to search or Special Summon from Deck, use Mementotlan Bone Party / Mementotlan Fusion to land Creation King or Twin Dragon, set Fracture Dance, and keep one recursion piece (Ghattic, Mementomictlan) as follow-up.
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with the 8-card non-engine breaker package (Book of Eclipse x3, Forbidden Droplet x2, Kumongous x2, Hey, Trunade) to strip the opposing board, then rebuild with Bone Party / Fusion resolving into the same Fusion line and push for lethal.
• Recovery: Recycle via Mementomictlan's Special Summon on destruction, Ghattic's self-revive when sent by a Memento effect, Akihiron's retrieval of a banished/GY Memento card, and Tecuhtlica's 5-name shuffle to redeploy a 5000 ATK body.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (Side Deck size 0) and Duel Links ladder play in this export gives no side data; adaptation would come from swapping redundant Book of Eclipse copies for in-archetype interaction such as Mementotlan Cranium Burst.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its card scores: 22 of 30 main slots are Memento cards with 11 searcher-text cards, so some engine card is opened in ~99.7% of five-card hands, while true one-card starters (Angwitch + Dark Blade, 4 copies) are only ~54% and the wider engine-entry set (adding Tatsunootoshigo) is ~76%. That converts into a real Fusion midrange board (Creation King 3000 ATK dumping three Memento cards on Summon, Twin Dragon 2800, Guardian Chimera 3300, plus Tecuhtlica 5000) inside a 4000 LP, three-zone format where that stat line closes games quickly. Its clearest structural weakness is the other side of the coin: zero hand traps, one trap card total and no side deck mean going-first interaction rests entirely on monster effects in front of the opponent's turn, and two Kumongous plus Hey, Trunade are near-dead cards in that seat. Going second the deck is much better than its archetype reputation suggests, with 8 of 30 slots dedicated to board-breaking (Book of Eclipse x3, Forbidden Droplet x2, Kumongous x2, Hey, Trunade) plus in-engine pops. No recorded combo boards exist for this list, so the floor and median are text-only inference and confidence stays Medium; Memento's archetype usage and 12-of-21 core presence confirm the list is real and accessible, but that popularity earned no points here.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.7. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 70, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: hard-garnet burden (-2); engine compactness and redundancy (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.54 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.36 · 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

• Engine redundancy: 21-22 Memento cards plus 11 searcher-text cards give a ~99.7% chance of opening some engine card in five cards.
• Near-optimal Extra Deck: all 9 slots are the archetype-standard core (Creation King x2, Twin Dragon, Guardian Chimera, I:P, S:P, Knightmare Phoenix, Underworld Goddess, Assembled Nightingale), covering removal, protection, draw and damage.
• Fast closing power in a 4000 LP format: 3000/2800/3300 ATK Fusions, a 5000 ATK Tecuhtlica that attacks every monster, and Akihiron unlocking direct attacks for Level 9+ Mementos.
• Unusually heavy going-second package for a 30-card Duel Links deck: 8 board-affecting non-engine slots (Book of Eclipse x3, Droplet x2, Kumongous x2, Hey, Trunade) on top of in-engine pops.
• Real recovery loops: Mementomictlan revives on destruction, Ghattic self-revives when sent by a Memento effect, Akihiron retrieves a banished/GY card, Tecuhtlica shuffles five names back.

Weaknesses

• Zero hand traps and only one trap card (Fracture Dance), so the going-first board is pure monster presence in a three-zone format and can be outed by a single well-timed removal or Book of Moon-style answer.
• Two Kumongous and Hey, Trunade are near-dead in the going-first seat, raising the effective brick count in game 1.
• Key engine pieces are singletons (Goblin, Ghattic, Shleepy, Akihiron, Horned Dragon, Mace, Tecuhtlica, Mementomictlan, Fracture Dance) and depend on the search chain resolving.
• No in-engine draw outside Guardian Chimera; every search is paid for with a monster, which caps grind value once the field is cleared.
• No side deck (Side Deck size 0) and no post-side evidence, so adaptation for a best-of-3 setting is unproven.

Critical choke points

• Mementotlan Angwitch's on-Summon search: negating or removing it before resolution leaves a 800 ATK body and no follow-up unless Tatsunootoshigo or Dark Blade is also in hand.
• The self-destruction chain (Dark Blade / Bone Party / Tatsunootoshigo destroy a Memento you control): removing the destruction target in response fizzles the search or summon.
• Mementotlan Fusion resolving during the Main Phase: negating the Fusion Spell strands the materials in hand/field with no Fusion body.
• No spell/trap interaction on the opponent's turn beyond a single Fracture Dance, so any continuous floodgate or backrow lock that survives turn 1 is hard to answer without drawing Book of Eclipse or Hey, Trunade.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 30/30 Main, 9/9 Extra, 0 Side within Duel Links size caps (main 20-30, extra 0-9, side 0-9); no violations reported.; Banlist: Lyrilusc - Assembled Nightingale is Limited in Duel Links and the deck runs exactly 1; Hey, Trunade! is Semi-Limited and the deck runs 1.; Card text of every Memento engine piece, Book of Eclipse, Forbidden Droplet, Kumongous, Hey, Trunade, and the Extra Deck monsters.; Composition: 16 Effect Monsters / 13 Spells / 1 Trap in the Main Deck; Extra Deck is 4 Fusion, 4 Link, 1 Xyz.; Role flags: 0 hand traps, 2 tech cards, 0 floodgates, 11 searcher-text cards.; Archetype purity: 21 exact-name Memento copies (53.8%), 8 non-archetype main cards.
• Observed: usage statistics: 25 stat rows; 12 of 21 core cards present in this list; typical copies for Tatsunootoshigo (3), Bone Party (3), Mementotlan Fusion (3), Creation King (2), Forbidden Droplet (3 vs 2 run).; combo data: 0 parseable boards recorded for this deck (no ceiling, median, board-per-starter or going-first/second split available).; guide data: 1 attached guide for Memento (id 1484) with no extracted sections.
• Inferred: Starter math: P(>=1 true one-card starter in 5) ~0.54; P(>=1 of the 7-copy engine-entry set) ~0.76; P(some Memento card) ~0.997.; Two-card line probability ~0.36 for Bone Party or Mementotlan Fusion plus another Memento card; full-brick estimate ~12%.; Going-first board quality is monster-only because the deck runs exactly 1 trap and 0 hand traps.; Recovery quality from Mementomictlan / Ghattic / Akihiron / Tecuhtlica recursion text.; Closing power from ATK lines (3000 / 2800 / 3300 / 5000) versus the 4000 LP Duel Links life total.
• Provisional: Matchup coverage and format fit: no tournament link, no archetype meta-share, no dated metagame sample.; Side-deck adaptability: Side Deck size is 0 and no post-side performance data exists.; Meta Power is reported as null.
• 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). Meta Power is provisional; no dated metagame sample was supplied. usage statistics 'in this deck' flags mark every Extra Deck card as absent even though the resolved card list contains 8 of them; the resolved list was trusted. Duel Links Skill is not exported, so any Skill-based consistency or turn-order advantage is unknown.