Dinos Deck #773984 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ultimate Conductor Tyranno beatdown supported by Evolzar negation and board control; Evolzar Laggia/Dolkka negate pressure plus steady Dinosaur beatdown
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Souleating Oviraptor to search a Dinosaur, then pop Babycerasaurus with Oviraptor's ignition to Special Summon a Dinosaur from Deck, and overlay Level 4 Dinosaurs into Evolzar Laggia/Dolkka; hold Miscellaneousaurus in hand for Main-Phase protection and convert Double Evolution Pill into Ultimate Conductor Tyranno once the Graveyard is stocked.
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with a six-card hand, use Ultimate Conductor Tyranno's flip-down/destroy, Dogoran tribute, Underworld Goddess and Knightmare Unicorn to break the established board, then swing with 3500 ATK UCT and Evolzar beaters for lethal.
• Recovery: Babycerasaurus, Miscellaneousaurus, Giant Rex and Double Evolution Pill all recycle Dinosaurs from the Graveyard and banished zone, so the deck rebuilds its board across turns rather than folding after one exchange.
• After siding: Duel Links does not use a Side Deck; adaptation happens only through deck construction at list-building time, so no in-match siding plan exists.

Why it scores here

This Dinos list is a compact, self-sufficient engine: 3 Fossil Dig, 3 Souleating Oviraptor and 3 Babycerasaurus combine for roughly 0.87 odds of a live starter in the opening five, and Miscellaneousaurus plus a small hand-trap suite keep the deck functional when it is forced to react. Its ceiling — Oviraptor into a popped Babycerasaurus into an Evolzar negate, backed by Double Evolution Pill into Ultimate Conductor Tyranno — is real, but with zero recorded boards the median and floor are text-only estimates rather than measured output. Interaction is layered through Evolzar Laggia/Dolkka, UCT's flip-down/destroy, Blizzard and hand traps, and grind is supported by Babycerasaurus, Miscellaneousaurus, Giant Rex and Pill recycling from the Graveyard, which is why the deck earns a Midrange profile with a Combo secondary rather than pure combo credit. The score reflects consistency, resilience and interaction on the system — the engine's cohesion, not the average of individual card strengths — and popularity or archetype representation contributed nothing to the number. Meta Power remains provisional because no dated metagame sample or tournament link was supplied.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 63. Modifiers: hard_garnet_burden (-2); engine compactness (1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.3 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.08 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Compact, dedicated Dino engine with roughly 0.87 odds of a live starter in the opening five.
• Layered interaction: Evolzar Laggia/Dolkka negations, UCT flip-down/destroy, Blizzard and four hand traps.
• Strong multi-turn grind via Babycerasaurus, Miscellaneousaurus, Giant Rex and Double Evolution Pill recursion.
• Real going-second board-breaking through UCT, Dogoran, Underworld Goddess and Knightmare Unicorn.
• Nine-slot Extra Deck covers both Xyz negation and Link removal/utility, so few slots are wasted.

Weaknesses

• No recorded combo data — floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference and could shift materially with real boards.
• Overtex Qoatlus and both Ultimate Conductor Tyranno are partial bricks without Graveyard/banish setup.
• No Side Deck in Duel Links, so no in-match adaptation to opposing strategies.
• Meta fit unresolved: no dated metagame sample or tournament link was supplied.
• Double Evolution Pill depends on having both a Dinosaur and a non-Dinosaur in hand/Graveyard, a sequencing tax.

Critical choke points

• Souleating Oviraptor is the primary engine access; negating or removing it early can strand a turn.
• Double Evolution Pill is dead until Graveyard/hand fodder exists, so drawing it first slows the UCT line.
• Evolzar Laggia and Dolkka are the main negation bodies, making them Extra Deck choke points once spent.
• Overtex Qoatlus requires 5 banished Dinosaurs and is effectively unusable in a short game.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 29 Main / 9 Extra / 0 Side with zero violations under the BanDuelLink field.; Abyss Dweller is Limited (1 copy run, limit 1) and Bystial Druiswurm is Semi-Limited (2 copies run, limit 2).; Card text, type, attribute, race and level for all distinct cards supplied in evidence.; Extra Deck composition: 5 Link and 4 Xyz monsters across 9 slots.; No Side Deck exists in this Duel Links list (Side Deck size = 0).
• Observed: Usage statistics returned 21 stat rows with 12 of 21 core cards present (57.1% core presence).; Role-tag counts: 4 hand traps, 8 searcher-text and 8 negation-text card instances.; The 8 searcher-text copies give ≈ 0.83 opening-hand presence (hypergeometric, hand 5).
• Inferred: P(>=1 starter in opening 5) ≈ 0.87 from 9 Oviraptor/Fossil Dig/Babycerasaurus copies.; Full-brick estimate ≈ 8% based on starter density and garnet count.; Combo floor/median/ceiling derived from card text rather than recorded boards.; Miscellaneousaurus protection and Graveyard recursion support interruption resilience and grind.
• Provisional: Matchup coverage and format fit — no dated metagame sample or tournament link was supplied.; Meta Power is null/provisional by rubric.
• 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. Usage-stat flags mark Linkuriboh, Evolzar Dolkka, Underworld Goddess and Knightmare Phoenix as not in this deck, but all four appear in the resolved Extra Deck list — likely a reference-matching artifact in the stat export.