Chimera Deck #773959 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Chimera bosses and control with Horus/Xyz or toolbox interruptions; Horus Rank 8, Underworld Goddess, Chengying, or Dark Magician of Destruction cheat-summon
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Mirror Swordknight, Gazelle, or Big-Winged Berfomet to search/fuse into a Chimera Fusion boss and add one layer of interaction such as Number 90 or Fiendish Golem.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Kaiju, D.D. Crow, Ghost Ogre, and Underworld Goddess to clear or blank threats, then convert into Chimera the Illusion Beast or another high-ATK boss.
• Recovery: Reuse Chimera Fusion from the GY while controlling Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast, and loop Imsety/Hapi with King's Sarcophagus or Walls of the Imperial Tomb.
• After siding: No Side Deck is present; adaptation is limited to the existing Extra Deck toolbox.

Why it scores here

This deck scores around 59 because its Chimera core is genuinely dense—13 Main Deck cards plus searchers—so it usually opens some fusion line, but the list is a hybrid pile with low archetype purity, many one-ofs, and several dead or conflicting cards. The realistic median is inferred as one Chimera fusion boss plus modest interaction, while the ceiling includes Number 90, Underworld Goddess, Chengying, and multi-attack Chimera the Illusion Beast; no combo records exist to verify either number. Resilience and grind are helped by Chimera Fusion's GY recursion and the Horus/King's Sarcophagus loop, but Big-Winged Berfomet's Fusion-only lock fights the Xyz/Synchro/Link toolbox and the Main Deck contains unsummonable Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon support. Going second it has Kaiju, D.D. Crow, Ghost Ogre, and Underworld Goddess, yet no Side Deck or dated metagame sample supports a higher contextual score. The score is not an average of card power, and Chimera's historical Duel Links presence did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 60% Midrange / 40% Combo. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 67, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: hard-garnet burden (-1); engine conflict (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + modifiers

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.55 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.1 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High Chimera starter density with 3 Mirror Swordknight and 3 Chimera Fusion plus multiple searchers.
• Multiple boss options: Chimera fusions, Number 90, Underworld Goddess, Chengying, and Dark Magician of Destruction.
• Strong recursion and grind via Chimera Fusion GY effect and the Horus/King's Sarcophagus loop.
• Good going-second tools in Kaiju, D.D. Crow, Ghost Ogre, Underworld Goddess, and multi-attack Chimera the Illusion Beast.

Weaknesses

• Low archetype purity and many one-of engines reduce hand quality and coherence.
• The Gaze of Timaeus has no Dark Magician target, and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon lacks Dark Magician in the Main Deck.
• Big-Winged Berfomet's Fusion-only lock conflicts with Horus Xyz, Chengying, and Underworld Goddess lines.
• No Side Deck and no post-side adaptation plan.
• No combo evidence exists, so floor, median, and ceiling remain text-only inferences.

Critical choke points

• Normal Summon Mirror Swordknight, Gazelle, or Big-Winged Berfomet is the main entry; stopping it can leave only Horus or hand traps.
• Chimera Fusion needs a Beast or Fiend material; without it the fusion engine stalls.
• Big-Winged Berfomet's Extra Deck lock can shut off Number 90, Chengying, and Underworld Goddess if used too early.
• The Gaze of Timaeus and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon are dead without Dark Magician.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Legal: 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side, no copy-limit violations.; All listed cards show Unlimited banlist status and legal copies >= copies_run.; Card text excerpts confirm Chimera Fusion, Mirror Swordknight, Gazelle, Big-Winged Berfomet, Number 90, Underworld Goddess, and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon effects.; usage statistics are available with 16 rows.; guide data includes one Chimera guide snippet.
• Observed: combo data.total combos = 0; no parseable boards supplied.; No Side Deck is present.
• Inferred: Effective starter density is high but many starters are conditional.; The Gaze of Timaeus has no Dark Magician target in the Main Deck.; Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon cannot be Fusion Summoned from the given Main Deck.; Big-Winged Berfomet's Fusion-only lock conflicts with Number 90, Chengying, and Underworld Goddess lines.; Median board is inferred as one fusion boss plus modest interaction.
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit are provisional; no dated metagame sample or tournament link is supplied.; Chimera's Duel Links meta history is guide context only and did not move the score.
• 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 are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. usage statistics in this deck flags conflict with the resolved card list for several cards, including Chimera the King of Phantom Beasts and Berfomet the Mythical King of Phantom Beasts.