Blackwings Deck #773986 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro-summon Blackwing bosses (Black-Winged Assault Dragon, Blackwing Full Armor Master, Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss) and convert them into battle-damage wins with layered negation.; Grind via Black Feather Whirlwind / Zephyros / Twin Shadow recursion while hand traps (Droll, D.D. Crow, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle) grind the opponent's engine down.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Blackwing Normal Summon into Black Whirlwind search or Sudri token line, extend with Vata/Oroshi, Synchro into Nothung/Boreastorm then Lv10 boss, keep a hand trap or Black Shadow Squall as interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand backed by ~10 hand traps; use Chinook to negate-and-shrink a threat, Raikiri/Silverwind to destroy, then Synchro into high-ATK bosses to close.
• Recovery: Rebuild from GY/banish with Black Feather Whirlwind, Zephyros and Twin Shadow; recycle Blackwing names to re-Synchro after a board wipe.
• After siding: No Side Deck built, so no constructed post-side transformation; adapts only via in-archetype flex slots.

Why it scores here

This Blackwings Duel Links list scores in the low 60s because the system it is built on is a real but moderately diluted Synchro-combo engine: a broad starter package (Sudri and Shamal at three copies each, plus Simoon, Vata and the searchable Black Whirlwind) reliably opens a playable line, yet roughly a third of the 30-card Main Deck is non-engine hand traps and situational 1-ofs, so median hands fall short of the deck's true ceiling. The ceiling itself is high — multi-card Synchro chains can reach Black-Winged Assault Dragon, Full Armor Master or Hot Red Abyss for several layers of negation and 3000+ ATK closers — but with no recorded boards, floor and median output had to be inferred from card text rather than measured, which caps the combo-conversion and consistency marks. Interaction is layered (Hot Red Abyss, Chinook, Black Shadow Squall, Full Armor Master immunity) but not dense, and going-second relies more on hand-trap attrition than on dedicated board-breakers, so the second-turn score sits just under the first-turn score. Popularity and the near-standard archetype core did not earn points here — the score reflects engine consistency, median output, interaction breadth and resilience on the system, not an average of individual card scores. The small penalty applied reflects the burden of several dead-on-draw situational 1-ofs.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 60% Combo / 40% Midrange. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: Situational 1-of garnet burden (-2); Compact searchable engine (1); No Side Deck (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · key two-card combo ≈ — · 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

• Broad, searchable Blackwing starter package (Sudri, Shamal, Simoon, Vata, Black Whirlwind) makes a playable opener likely
• High-ATK Synchro closers (Assault Dragon 3200, Hot Red Abyss 3200, Full Armor Master 3000) give real finishing power
• Layered interaction across monster-effect negation (Hot Red Abyss, Chinook), a counter trap (Black Shadow Squall) and an unaffected boss (Full Armor Master)
• Strong GY recursion (Black Feather Whirlwind, Zephyros, Twin Shadow) supports grind and board rebuilds
• ~10 hand traps improve going-second attrition and interaction density

Weaknesses

• No recorded combo boards, so floor/median output is only text-inferred
• ~1/3 of a 30-card Main is non-engine hand traps, diluting starter density
• Several situational 1-ofs (Auster, Zephyros, Twin Shadow, Black Shadow Squall) can be dead on draw
• Limited dedicated going-second board-breakers — relies on hand traps and single-target removal
• No Side Deck, so no constructed post-side adaptation
• Many lines funnel through a single Normal Summon, a disruption choke point

Critical choke points

• Normal Summon on a lone Blackwing is the engine's ignition; negating or stopping it strands extenders in hand
• Black Whirlwind / Black Feather Whirlwind are single copies — losing them removes the search/recursion backbone
• Blackwing Synchro bosses are extra-deck-fragile if the Extra Deck is depleted across a long grind

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 30 Main / 9 Extra / 0 Side, within Duel Links size rules, no violations; Card text and ATK/DEF/Level for all listed cards (Assault Dragon 3200, Hot Red Abyss 3200, Full Armor Master 3000); Banlist: all cards Unlimited under BanDuelLink
• Observed: Extra Deck composition: 9 Synchro monsters spanning Lv6-10; Composition breakdown: 28 DARK copies, 24 Winged Beast, hand trap role count 9
• Inferred: ~0.76 P(>=1 searcher-text card in opening 5) from hypergeometric table; Ceiling boards (Assault Dragon / Full Armor Master / Hot Red Abyss) from guide text and card-text reading; Median output and brick rate derived from composition, not measured boards; Going-first/second power and tournament reliability computed from dimension blend
• Provisional: Matchup coverage and format fit (D13) — no dated metagame sample; Meta Power is null / Provisional
• 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) 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 Extra Deck cards