Memento Deck #774403 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Memento finishers: Mementomictlan Tecuhtlica - Creation King (x2), Mementoal Tecuhtlica - Combined Creation (5000 ATK, attacks all monsters while alone), Mementotlan-Horned Dragon (2850 ATK) and Mementotlan Twin Dragon (2800 ATK, banishes monsters destroyed in battle with Memento monsters).; Mementotlan Fusion (x3) and Memento searchers/recursion (Angwitch, Ghattic, Akihiron, Bone Party) feeding Fusion and Special Summon lines; off-archetype Extra Deck monsters (Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Knightmare Phoenix, Lyrilusc, I:P Masquerena, Underworld Goddess) as flex attackers and interaction.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Memento monster plus Mementotlan Fusion or a Memento searcher (Angwitch / Ghattic / Bone Party), then Fusion Summon from the Extra Deck using Memento material from hand or field. Starter reliability is inferred from the hypergeometric estimates, not observed boards.
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with a hand trap (Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler) or Forbidden Droplet to disrupt the opponent's board, then rebuild through Memento GY recursion and Fusion or Link-based follow-up. Interaction density is the main going-second tool.
• Recovery: Recursion from the GY: Ghattic adds a Memento card from the GY, Angwitch and Akihiron recycle Memento monsters, and Creation King can be banished from the GY to add Mementomictlan back to hand. Recovery is text-supported and inferred, not observed.
• After siding: Not applicable in the export: side deck is 0 cards and Duel Links evidence contains no side-deck or best-of-3 data.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens on a Memento-based starter: P(at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.89 and the three-copy Fusion spell is live in about 43% of going-first hands (Inferred hypergeometric estimates). Conversion is supported by a strong Extra Deck ceiling (Combined Creation, Creation King x2, Horned Dragon, Twin Dragon) and recursion routes that let it rebuild after disruption, though no recorded boards exist to confirm the median output. Interaction is broad for Duel Links (three Forbidden Droplet, Fracture Dance, Dragoon, Droll and Veiler) and supports going second, but six of nine Extra Deck slots are off-archetype and the list has no side deck, which caps adaptability and pilotability. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged; the score comes from the system's consistency, recursion, interaction and Extra Deck structure.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 67, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: Off-archetype Extra Deck slots (-2); Single-copy key spell (-1); GY recursion redundancy (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 0.80*66 + 0.20*62 = 65.2, then modifiers -1 = 64

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High text-level finisher density in the Extra Deck, led by Combined Creation and Creation King x2.
• Broad interaction: 3 Forbidden Droplet, Fracture Dance, Dragoon removal, two hand traps and Mace control-steal text.
• Multiple GY recursion routes reduce single-point failure during recovery.

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards or win-rate telemetry, so floor and median output are unmeasured.
• Six of nine Extra Deck slots are off-archetype, reducing engine coherence.
• Exact-name purity 48.7% with generic and tech slots (Droll, Effect Veiler, Hey Trunade!) that can dead-draw.
• No side deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Critical choke points

• Mementomictlan (1 copy) as the single searcher-spell for the Memento line.
• Creation King and Combined Creation as the only high-ceiling finishers in the Extra Deck, both needing Memento material on board or in GY.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Duel Links: main 30 (range 20-30), extra 9 (range 0-9), side 0; Limited Lyrilusc 1/1 and Semi-Limited Hey, Trunade! 2/2 within limits.; Card stats and text from the evidence cards array.; Usage-statistics core list and archetype-purity counts as reported.
• Inferred: Starter reliability from hypergeometric estimates (P(>=1 searcher in hand5) 0.89; 3-copy Fusion 0.43 going first).; Interaction density and recovery routes from card text.; Off-archetype Extra Deck coherence penalty.
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13 neutral, dropped from structural).; Side-deck adaptability (D12) given no side cards and no post-side data.
• 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 - brick/starter/OTK rates are Inferred usage_statistics.in_this_deck is false for Extra Deck cards that the cards array lists as present (Creation King x2, Twin Dragon, Lyrilusc, I:P Masquerena, Underworld Goddess, Knightmare Phoenix), so core_present_pct 61.9% is an artifact of ignoring the Extra zone; this evaluation uses the cards array Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck or post-side data for Duel Links