Memento Deck #773966 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Mementomictlan Tecuhtlica - Creation King or Mementotlan Twin Dragon, then close with Mementoal Tecuhtlica - Combined Creation, Akihiron-enabled direct attacks, or Nightingale.; Grind with Memento recursion and use the board-breaker package (Book of Eclipse, Hey, Trunade!, Kaiju, Forbidden Droplet) to convert into an OTK turn.
• Turn 1 (going first): Establish a Memento Fusion boss with recursion and set Fracture Dance or hold Mace/S:P as interaction; avoid overcommitting into board breakers.
• Turn 2 (going second): Clear face-up monsters and backrow with Book of Eclipse, Hey, Trunade!, Kaiju and Forbidden Droplet, then Fusion Summon and attack for lethal with Combined Creation, Akihiron or Nightingale.
• Recovery: Rebuild through Ghattic, Mementomictlan, Bone Party's GY effect and Creation King/Twin Dragon searches; Combined Creation can shuffle five Memento names back from hand/GY.
• After siding: No Side Deck is present and Duel Links is effectively best-of-1; adaptation is limited to the main-deck board-breaker density and going-second choices.

Why it scores here

This Memento list is a legal 30-card Duel Links build with a large archetype core and eight board-breaker slots, so it reliably finds some Memento card but less reliably assembles a live monster-plus-Fusion line. Its ceiling is real: Creation King/Twin Dragon plus Combined Creation or direct attackers can close games, and Book of Eclipse, Hey, Trunade!, Kaiju and Forbidden Droplet give it a genuine going-second plan. The floor is weaker: no hand traps, only one Trap, and several one-of garnets mean the average opening is more midrange than lockdown, and the first Fusion or Bone Party line is a clear choke point. It scores here because consistency, median output, interaction, resilience, turn-order balance and cost were assessed as a system; Memento's usage share and individual card texts did not by themselves earn points, and no card-score average was used.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 70% Blind-Second / OTK + 30% Midrange. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 61, Going Second ≈ 71, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 59. Modifiers: hard-garnet burden (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; modifier: hard-garnet burden -1)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.7 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.67 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.25 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High Memento-name density (about 22 main-deck copies) and broad search/recursion make the engine easy to find.
• Strong going-second package: three Book of Eclipse, two Forbidden Droplet, two Kaiju, one Hey, Trunade!, plus Underworld Goddess/Phoenix/S:P.
• Real closing power from Combined Creation, Creation King, Twin Dragon, Chimera, Akihiron and Nightingale.
• Recovery tools in Ghattic, Mementomictlan, Bone Party's GY effect and Creation King/Twin Dragon searches support grind.
• The Extra Deck covers Fusion bosses, generic Link removal and an Xyz direct attacker in only nine slots.

Weaknesses

• No hand traps and only one Trap card; turn-one interaction is thin and easy to play through.
• The first Fusion or Bone Party line is a choke point; if stopped, many hands lack a second independent engine line.
• Ten one-copy cards, including early-dead Combined Creation and Horned Dragon, raise brick and garnet variance.
• Book of Eclipse gives the opponent draws in the End Phase and can be awkward going first.
• No Side Deck and no tournament data mean post-side and matchup claims are unproven.

Critical choke points

• Resolving Mementotlan Fusion or Bone Party with the right Memento materials.
• Access to a second Memento body after the first destruction effect is disrupted.
• Drawing Combined Creation or Horned Dragon before the GY is set up.
• No hand traps means the deck cannot interact on the opponent's first turn without a set Fracture Dance or field recursion.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Legal: 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side, within Duel Links caps; no copy-limit violations.; Lyrilusc - Assembled Nightingale is Limited and run at 1; Hey, Trunade! is Semi-Limited and run at 1.; Resolved card texts confirm Mementotlan Fusion/Bone Party as Fusion/search engines and Book of Eclipse, Droplet, Kaiju and Trunade as board breakers.; Usage statistics show Memento core cards are widely included (e.g. Akihiron and Mementomictlan at 100%, Tatsunootoshigo at 92.5%, Bone Party at 87.5%).
• Observed: No recorded combo boards appear in the evidence pack: combos_evidence.total_combos = 0.
• Inferred: Starter density is roughly 70% when requiring a Memento monster plus Fusion/Bone Party or a direct starter; any Memento card is near-certain but not all are live.; Brick and garnet burden from one-of Combined Creation and Horned Dragon lowers opening-hand quality.; The deck is built as a going-second OTK/midrange hybrid: about eight board-breaker slots and multiple 3000+ ATK closers.; The typical end board lacks hand traps and has limited layered interaction, so D7 is below the deck's offensive scores.; Memento recursion supports grind, but the first Fusion/Bone Party line remains a clear choke point.
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit are provisional because no dated metagame sample or tournament link was supplied.; Duel Links side-deck relevance is low or absent, so D12 is neutral-to-low.
• 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 are absent. No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick, starter or OTK rates; those signals are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. usage_statistics core/missing flags conflict with the resolved Extra Deck (e.g. Twin Dragon, S:P and Nightingale are flagged missing but are present); the resolved card list was used. No character Skill data is present in the export, which matters for Duel Links evaluation.