Memento Deck #774406 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion-based boss pressure: Mementomictlan Tecuhtlica - Creation King (3000 ATK) and Mementotlan-Horned Dragon (2850 ATK), with Mementoal Tecuhtlica - Combined Creation (5000 ATK) as a single-copy finisher.; Graveyard recursion of Memento monsters (Ghattic, Akihiron, Horned Dragon, Bone Party) that rebuilds the board after removal.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Mementotlan Fusion or a Memento Special Summon enabler (Angwitch, Shleepy, Tatsunootoshigo, Bone Party), search a Memento with Angwitch or Ghattic, then Fusion Summon Creation King from the Extra Deck.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Forbidden Droplet to halve and negate the opponent's Effect Monsters, then Special Summon a Memento from the GY or hand to rebuild a board; Mementomictlan limits the opponent's Spell/Trap activations during battle.
• Recovery: Recover from the GY with Ghattic (add a Memento from the GY), Akihiron (add a banished or GY Memento), and Horned Dragon (Special Summon from hand with 3 different-name Memento in the GY).
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links is a single game with no side deck, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Memento starter: several Special Summon enablers (Angwitch, Shleepy, Tatsunootoshigo, Bone Party) and the Mementotlan Fusion spell, with about a 0.43 chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred). Its strength is at the system level: Graveyard recursion (Ghattic, Akihiron, Horned Dragon) lets it rebuild after removal, which carries the interruption-resilience and resource scores. The Extra Deck ends in large bosses (Creation King 3000 ATK, Horned Dragon 2850 ATK, Twin Dragon 2800 ATK) that give the closing power. Interaction is real but thin: three Forbidden Droplet, one Mementomictlan, one Cranium Burst and one Fracture Dance, with no hand traps. The score is not driven by Memento being a popular archetype (usage data only confirms the list is accessible) and not by averaging card scores. No combo boards were recorded, so the ceiling and median are text-based inference and the uncertainty band is wide.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59.5, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: off-archetype dilution (-2); dependence on one Extra-Deck boss (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional). Structural is meta-neutral: D13 dropped and the remaining Combo weights renormalized over 97 (5773/97 = 59.5).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.43 · 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

• Several independent Memento starters and Special Summon routes, so one disruption does not end the turn
• Graveyard recursion (Ghattic, Akihiron, Horned Dragon) rebuilds the board after removal
• High boss ATK values (Creation King 3000, Horned Dragon 2850, Combined Creation 5000)
• Legal in Duel Links: 30 Main and 9 Extra are within the format ranges, and the one Limited card (Lyrilusc) is at its cap of 1

Weaknesses

• No hand traps, so opponent's turn interaction is limited to Forbidden Droplet and Mementomictlan
• Six slots of off-plan Forbidden Droplet and Book of Eclipse dilute the engine
• Several Extra Deck splashes (Guardian Chimera, Knightmare Phoenix, S:P Little Knight, I:P Masquerena, Lyrilusc) do not connect to the Memento engine
• Opening a Fusion starter depends on 3 copies of Mementotlan Fusion

Critical choke points

• Mementotlan Fusion (3 copies, about 0.43 per opening hand) is the main Fusion starter
• Creation King needs 3 Memento monsters with different names, so a thin board can stall the Fusion

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Duel Links: 30 Main (range 20-30) and 9 Extra (range 0-9); Lyrilusc - Assembled Nightingale: Limited, 1 copy run, legal; Card text and stats for all 26 distinct cards from evidence; Archetype usage: Mementotlan Twin Dragon 96.7% and Creation King typical 2 copies (deck runs 3); Exact-name purity 61.5%
• Inferred: P(>=1 Mementotlan Fusion in 5 cards) = 0.43; engine accessibility is high because there are several Special Summon enablers; Going-second interaction is limited (no hand traps); Recursion gives interruption resilience; Boss-based closing power
• Provisional: Meta Power (null), matchup fit (D13), and side deck (D12 not applicable)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and matchup records are absent usage statistics in this deck flags are false for extra-deck cards that the cards list shows in the deck (Creation King, Twin Dragon, Guardian Chimera, Lyrilusc, Knightmare Phoenix, S:P Little Knight, I:P Masquerena), so core-card presence 61.9 is unreliable and was not used Duel Links has no side deck, so D12 and any post-side plan are not measurable No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, brick or starter rates