Chimera Deck #773976 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 29 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Berfomet the Mythical King of Phantom Beasts / Chimera the King of Phantom Beasts / Guardian Chimera, converting searched material into a recurring board that out-grinds the opponent while Mirror Swordknight and Cornfield Coatl provide quick-effect interaction.; Post-breaker OTK: Book of Eclipse or Forbidden Droplet clears the board, then Guardian Chimera (3300), Chaos Angel (3500) or Chimera the Illusion Beast (3100, multi-attack) closes the game.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Gazelle the King of Mythical Claws or Big-Winged Berfomet to search Chimera Fusion, fuse into Berfomet the Mythical King of Phantom Beasts (name becomes Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast) to trigger its GY search, hold Mirror Swordknight for a Quick Effect tribute-fetch and back the board with a set Book of Eclipse, Forbidden Droplet or Fiendish Golem.
• Turn 2 (going second): Lead with Book of Eclipse, Forbidden Droplet or Santa Claws to strip the established board, then resolve Chimera Fusion into Guardian Chimera for draws plus destruction, or swing over with Chimera the Illusion Beast's multi-attack.
• Recovery: Chimera Fusion's GY effect re-fuses while Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast is on the field or in the GY; Gazelle's Fusion-material GY search, Master Tao the Chanter's Illusion revival and the second Berfomet the Mythical King of Phantom Beasts keep the engine running into later turns.
• After siding: Duel Links has no side deck (side_count 0), so adaptation is limited to Main Deck tech choices already present (Book of Eclipse, Forbidden Droplet, Skull Meister) and to which Extra Deck Fusion is prioritised.

Why it scores here

The score comes from the system, not from the individual cards: 15 distinct Main Deck cards resolve into roughly 12 engine-access pieces, so a 29-card Duel Links deck finds a Chimera starter in about 95% of five-card hands and almost never full-bricks. What it converts to is a Fusion boss (Berfomet the Mythical King of Phantom Beasts, Chimera the King of Phantom Beasts or Guardian Chimera) backed by one or two quick-effect Illusion interactions and a set Book of Eclipse or Forbidden Droplet - a midrange board with a real GY loop rather than a high combo ceiling. Going second it is better than the format average thanks to Book of Eclipse x3, Forbidden Droplet x2 and Santa Claws x2, which break boards before the Fusion engine commits. What holds it down is construction, not the engine: four off-plan cards (Crimson Gaia, Vision Resonator, Fiendish Golem, The End of Anubis) burn about 14% of the Main Deck, The End of Anubis actively negates the deck's own graveyard effects, and four of nine Extra Deck slots (three Synchro, one Link-5) are effectively unreachable with a single Tuner on Duel Links' three-zone field. Chimera's historical Duel Links popularity and meta presence earned no points here, no card scores were averaged, and the floor/median/ceiling are text-inferred because the export contains zero recorded combo boards.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.60 Midrange / 0.40 Combo. Structural ≈ 63.6, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 65, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: Off-plan main-deck package (-2); Wasted Extra Deck slots (-2); Compact redundant engine (1); Going-second breaker density (1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional/null)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Compact, highly redundant Chimera engine: 15 distinct Main Deck cards produce roughly 12 engine-access pieces in a 29-card deck.
• Near-guaranteed engine access: P(>=1 starter in a five-card hand) ~0.95 with only ~5% genuine no-starter hands.
• Real recursion across turns via Gazelle's Fusion-material GY search, Chimera Fusion's GY Fusion effect and Master Tao the Chanter's Illusion revival.
• Strong Duel Links going-second package in Book of Eclipse x3, Forbidden Droplet x2 and Santa Claws x2.
• Guardian Chimera converts hand material into draws plus targeted destruction, giving the deck a genuine grind payoff rather than a one-shot board.
• Credible closing power: Guardian Chimera 3300 ATK, Chaos Angel 3500 ATK and Chimera the Illusion Beast 3100 ATK with multi-attack.

Weaknesses

• Four off-plan Main Deck cards (Crimson Gaia, Vision Resonator, Fiendish Golem, The End of Anubis) consume roughly 14% of the deck without advancing the Fusion plan.
• The End of Anubis negates all GY-activated and GY-targeting effects, which includes the deck's own Gazelle search, Chimera Fusion GY Fusion and Master Tao revival.
• Four of nine Extra Deck slots (Accel Synchro Stardust Dragon, Chaos Angel, Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying, Underworld Goddess of the Closed World) need board states a one-Tuner, three-zone Duel Links field rarely produces.
• Chimera Fusion must include a Beast or Fiend material, so all-Illusion openers (Cornfield Coatl plus Mirror Swordknight) cannot fuse.
• No Xyz access at all despite Number 90: Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord sitting at 71% inclusion in the archetype usage stats.
• Zero recorded combo boards and no tournament link, so floor, median and matchup fit remain text-inferred or provisional.

Critical choke points

• Chimera Fusion resolving or being searched - it is the only Fusion enabler in the deck.
• A Beast or Fiend body to pair with Chimera Fusion; pure Illusion openers stall the turn.
• Big-Winged Berfomet's restriction (Fusion Monsters only for the rest of the turn) shuts off any Synchro or Link line it enables.
• Vision Resonator is the deck's only Tuner and needs a Level 5+ DARK monster on field to Special Summon itself, making every Synchro plan a single-card choke point.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Main 29 / Extra 9 / Side 0, all inside the Duel Links caps (20-30 Main, 0-9 Extra), zero violations, no restricted cards.; Card text confirms the Chimera Fusion loop across Gazelle the King of Mythical Claws, Mirror Swordknight, Cornfield Coatl, Big-Winged Berfomet and Chimera Fusion.; Every listed card is Unlimited under the BanDuelLink field with legal_copies = 3.; usage_statistics: Nightmare Apprentice, Mirror Swordknight and Chimera Fusion at 100% inclusion; 9 of 16 core-threshold cards present (core_present_pct 56.2).
• Observed: combos_evidence.total_combos = 0 and scored_combos = 0 - the export contains no parseable boards, so no measured floor, median or ceiling exists.; Card usage aggregation (16 stat rows) is the only measured frequency data attached; YGOVN holds no game-level win rates for this deck.
• Inferred: P(>=1 of ~12 engine-access cards in a five-card hand from a 29-card deck) ~0.95; full no-starter hand ~0.05.; Roughly 55% of five-card openers include at least one of the four off-plan cards (Crimson Gaia, Vision Resonator, Fiendish Golem, The End of Anubis).; Underworld Goddess (Link-5) and the three Synchro monsters are effectively unreachable with one Tuner and Duel Links' three-zone field.; Chimera Fusion requires a Beast or Fiend material, so Cornfield Coatl plus Mirror Swordknight cannot be fused.
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no tournament link, no dated metagame sample; the attached guide's statement that Chimera has been a strong Duel Links meta force is context only.; Archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent from the export.
• 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