Stardust / Synchron Deck #773962 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 49/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro-climb into a Dragon boss (Stardust Dragon into Crimson Dragon tag-out, or Centur-Ion Auxila) backed by Forbidden Droplet and hand traps.; Board wipe via Satellite Warrior / Trishula, Zero Dragon of the Ice Barrier, then close with 3200-4000 ATK Dragons; Converging Wishes as a late-game payoff.
• Turn 1 (going first): Resolve On Your Mark, Get Set, DUEL! for a Synchron, or open Stardust Trail plus a Tribute line, climb to a Level 8 Dragon Synchro and hold Droplet / Droll & Lock Bird plus a set Centur-Ion True Awakening.
• Turn 2 (going second): Break the established board with Forbidden Droplet and Droll & Lock Bird, then Synchro into Satellite Warrior or Trishula, Zero Dragon of the Ice Barrier to clear, and convert with high-ATK Dragons.
• Recovery: Rebuy the Graveyard with Shining Star Dragon, Synchro Rumble and Stardust Dragon's End Phase self-revive; Centur-Ion Atrii and Auxila keep cards flowing.
• After siding: No Side Deck is built (0 of 9 slots), so adaptation is limited to the main-deck tech already present in a best-of-one Duel Links format.

Why it scores here

The deck is a 22-card Duel Links Synchro build whose plan is to turn an On Your Mark / Stardust Trail opener or a Centur-Ion small engine into a Level 8-12 Dragon Synchro backed by Forbidden Droplet and Droll & Lock Bird. It runs close to the archetype-standard core once the Extra Deck is counted (14 of the 15 tracked core cards are actually present), but it does so across eight singleton slots, so hands are 'one live line plus conditional pieces' rather than a redundant engine. With zero recorded boards in the evidence pack, the ceiling and the median are text-only inferences: the best line reaches a 2500-4000 ATK Dragon with a negate, while the median turn is one Synchro plus a hand trap. Popularity and archetype meta-share earned no points here, no dated metagame sample was supplied so Meta Power stays provisional, and the total is a weighted structural calculation over consistency, resilience, interaction and cost rather than an average of the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.6. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 53, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 49. Modifiers: Conditional 1-of garnet burden (-2); Dependence on a Limited Extra Deck card (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.56 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.28 · 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

• Runs the archetype-standard core: 14 of the 15 tracked core cards are physically present once the Extra Deck is counted, so the ratio of engine cards matches proven tournament builds.
• High-ATK, high-impact boss suite (Shooting Quasar Dragon 4000, Red Supernova Dragon 4000, Ruddy Rose Dragon 3200, Satellite Warrior with ATK gain) gives genuine closing power when the board is assembled.
• Forbidden Droplet x3 (0.5584 to open in five, 0.6364 in six) is a format-grade board breaker that also functions as turn-1 interaction.
• Multiple Graveyard rebuy routes (Shining Star Dragon, Synchro Rumble, Stardust Dragon self-revive, Stardust Trail from Graveyard) give the deck a second and third wave rather than a single push.
• Droll & Lock Bird x3 gives pre-emptive combo-disruption coverage against search-heavy opponents.

Weaknesses

• Eight singleton slots concentrate risk: several cards (Converging Wishes, True Awakening, Synchro Rumble) cannot be used on turn 1 and become empty draws.
• The Centur-Ion splash occupies seven slots to field only two main-deck monsters, diluting the Synchron core without adding redundancy.
• Shooting Quasar Dragon's printed material requirement (1 Tuner Synchro + non-Tuner Synchros totalling Level 4) cannot be met by this Extra Deck, and Red Supernova Dragon wants 3 Tuners in a three-zone format, so at least one Extra slot may be functionally dead.
• Every line funnels through a single Normal Summon or a single On Your Mark resolution; one negated search often ends the turn with a near-empty board.
• No Side Deck at all, so there is no post-game adaptation plan.

Critical choke points

• On Your Mark, Get Set, DUEL! resolving (or the Normal Summon sticking) is the entry point for nearly every line; a single search negation leaves the hand stranded.
• Crimson Dragon is Limited to 1 and is the main bridge from a Level 8 Synchro into a Level 12 boss; once used or removed the ceiling collapses to Auxila.
• Stardust Synchron and Shining Star Dragon both require an existing body or an existing Dragon Synchro in the Graveyard, so a hand with only these is effectively dead.
• Centur-Ion True Awakening requires a face-up monster in the Spell & Trap Zone, which only the Centur-Ion trap-placement lines produce.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 22 Main / 9 Extra / 0 Side against Duel Links caps (main 20-30, extra 0-9, side 0-9); no violations, status Legal.; Crimson Dragon is Limited with legal copies 1 and the deck runs exactly 1.; Card text and role flags were available for all 22 Main Deck and 9 Extra Deck cards.; Seven cards listed under usage statistics.missing core cards (Crimson Dragon, Shooting Quasar Dragon, Ruddy Rose Dragon, Stardust Dragon, Satellite Warrior, Trishula Zero Dragon, Red Supernova Dragon) are physically present in the Extra Deck per the cards array; only Stardust Warrior is genuinely absent.
• Observed: combo data.total combos = 0 and scored combos = 0 - no recorded boards exist for this list.; usage statistics reports 15 tracked core cards with 7 flagged in-deck at the Main Deck level (46.7%), which understates core coverage because seven more core cards sit in the Extra Deck.; tournament data.available = false - archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent.
• Inferred: P(>=1 three-copy opener) = 0.5584 in a five-card hand; On Your Mark + Stardust Trail joint probability approximately 0.28.; Full-brick estimate approximately 10% from eight singleton slots plus several turn-1-dead conditional cards.; Shooting Quasar Dragon cannot be Synchro Summoned by this Extra Deck because the only Tuner Synchro is Level 8 and the non-Tuner Synchros would need to total Level 4.; Red Supernova Dragon requires three Tuners as material, which does not fit Duel Links' three Main Monster Zones for a normal Synchro Summon.; Median turn produces roughly one Level 8 Synchro plus a hand trap; the ceiling of a 4000 ATK negating Dragon is not the average outcome.
• Provisional: Meta Power stays null: no dated metagame sample was supplied, and the attached guide's claim that Stardust/Synchron is a top Duel Links force is context, not evidence of this list's power.; Matchup coverage and format fit cannot be measured without archetype share or match records.
• 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.in this deck appears to evaluate the Main Deck only, under-reporting Extra Deck core coverage (seven core cards are flagged 'missing' but are present in the Extra Deck).