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PvP Best Decks & Tier List [Mar 15]

This page notes decks in Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links and their rating to help players build their own decks.
update 15/03/2023

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Tier List [Mar 15]

  • Mekk-Knight and Salamangreat Code Talker are demoted as a Tier 3 Decklist.
  • Burning Abyss, Madolche, and Rose Dragon are removed from the Tier List.
  • Crusadia and Rokket/Borrel are removed from the High-Potential List.

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Tier list

Decks in Tier 1 and 2 are ones that are known to have achieved good success against other decks/players.

Meta decks

Meta decks are decks that are often commonly used by players in PvP. Meta decks will often change depending on newer cards or strategies, so we will keep updating this page often to keep everyone informed of newer decks.

Tier 0

Tier 0 decks are decks that completely dominate a meta and you either play the same deck or a deck that completely counters it (but loses to almost any other deck).

There are currently no Tier 0 decks

Tier 1

These decks are very well rounded. They have ways to deal with almost every deck and have very few weaknesses themselves.

The Phantom Knights

Tier
1
Cost
Expensive

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DeckCostTier

Phantom Knights
Expensive1

Tier 2

Tier 2 decks have a bit more weaknesses than tier 1 decks but your opponent needs to draw them early on.

Infernoid

Tier
2
Cost
Expensive

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DeckCostTier

Infernoid
Expensive2

Tier 3

These decks are very strong but have either one big, or a lot of weaknesses.

Code Talker

Tier
3
Cost
Expensive

Gouki

Tier
3
Cost
Expensive

Mekk-Knight

Tier
3
Cost
Expensive

Mekk-Knight Code Talker

Tier
3
Cost
Expensive

Salamangreat

Tier
3
Cost
Expensive

Salamangreat Code Talker

Tier
3
Cost
Expensive

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DeckCostTier

Code Talker
Expensive3

Gouki
Expensive3

Mekk-Knight
Expensive2

Mekk-Knight Code Talker
Expensive3

Salamangreat
Expensive3

Salamangreat Code Talker
Expensive2

High Potential

These decks are high potential as the Top Tier Decklist.

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DeckCostTier

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Anonymous
Blackwing has been tiered since December 2019 lol even longer than Darklord's now
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
BW has its ups and downs, even out of the tier for a while. It's not always tiered since December 2019.

It's unlike Darklord which is indeed always tiered until the deck gets nerfed and powercrept.
Anonymous
BE tier 3 at best, it struggles agaisnt Desperado, Water XYZ, no chance against turn 2 NK, Thunderdragons somewhat 50/50, many decks such as Onomat, Infernity (Trunade) or Dragunities can just OTK it.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
lol this kid, i obliterated NKs, water xyz, thunder dragons with my BE in my way to lvl 20 kc cup the first week the only time u lose is when u brick in start hand
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
^ so like 70% of the games?
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
By brick you mean don't get Karma cut in your starting hand? Sorry but this combo is all this deck has. You can get some wins with luck (going first, summon Spirit and set some traps) and hope your opponent doesn't have Trunade or some other surprise. In all other cases, just uh
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
^^^ lol this kid, saying she obliterated NKs, water xyz, thunder dragons with her BE in her way to lvl 20 kc cup the first week
Anonymous
No matter how strong your deck, if your luck is bad then your chance of losing is nearly 99,9%. I've ise lot of meta deck (shiranui, blue-eyes, invoked, neos, etc.). But in the end the reason i lost is because my opponent keep drawing the card they need.
Trust me, luck play bigger part in this game
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
I think he wants to say that once in a blue moon you can lose even to beaver warrior deck (bricks)
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Beaver Warrior too OP. Please limit along with Horned Imp.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Yea, everyone is trying to get 99% consistency. But when everyone is playing at 99% consistency, there will be no dueling card game, but just a coin toss who going first.
<< Anonymous
Epiates Reply
Makes sense, I've always ran fun decks vs tier 0/1, aromages, deskbot, scraps, dante. I won a lot despite having the "weaker" deck and we always based it on me having insane luck despite my decks always being consistent
Epiates
Probably get destroyed by any of these except blue eyes but my incomplete scrap dragon deck is 4/4 in KC. 4/5 in pvp since one match I got greedy and wasn't watching the time. 500 hp left 5200 damage on the field and he had no monsters but I had 1 second
Anonymous
I broke the meta!
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Maybe not tier 1, but yubel + nephthys are still a very very strong option.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
This deck is just getting more popular ^^ it's actually fun to play
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
HOLLY COW MAN THAT YUBEL AND NEPHTYS IS INSANE !!!
However, i've seen a even better versio must admit :P It had CARD OF THE SOUL to draw nephtys from deck to hand and also Barong :O
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
whats the name of the cards? cant even see it tbh
Candend
Blue-Eyes down to tier 3 again?
How? I think it's still strong. But I don't know exactly what happen because I'm not BE player. Lol.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
BE is sh!t now even when it is not brick.
Half of my opponents in the KC used various cards that prevented the summoning of light and high level monsters.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Anything can beat BE easily.
<< Anonymous(Candend)
Anonymous Reply
Well it is kinda inconsistent. Sometimes i even end up with 2 BE, one Card of C, and 2 trap that usually would be destroyed on the next turn.
I even clapped them in Ranked legend with vendread and dragunity which is technically weaker due to spirit dragon, but still win anyway since blue eyes brick that often.

Give BE trade-in and it might change things. Card of C doesn't really work that well
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Dragunity can easily OTK BE. The only threat is Karma cut but I have seen many players use Forbidden lance to dodge it
Anonymous
Noble knights being above BE seems weird especially since BE have double the amount of kog entries than NK
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
BECAUSE IS MUCH MORE POPULAR AND LESS PAY WALL

If konami introduce a new archetype in a mini box, everyone gonna play it. In comparison to NK or BE (Assuming that archetype is t2-t1 material) spend like 9-11k gem's for guarantee months/year of kog and/or good rank on tournaments is better. look at Shiranui, Fur Hire, etc.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Photon deck is here in a mini box.
<< Anonymous
Noble nuts Reply
Have you ever tried playing BE against full established NK board? Their floating effects, when you destroy their unit, they summon another in its place, re-equip all spell cards and destroy your card on your own turn.

You only have a chance if you disrupt their first summon and OTK them quickly
Candend
Onomat finally tier. But maybe there's bad news for onomat players after kc cup. IYKWIM.
<< Anonymous(Candend)
Anonymous Reply
Onomatoplay needs nerf. Thats for sure.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
It will require LP loss or usable after turn 3/5 after this if it is that much of a problem.

This skill may also stay as it is, to promote Xyz
Anonymous
BRick EyeS , always 2 BE starting hand , useless
Knight
Gouki in tier 2 and tier 3 kekw
<< Anonymous(Knight)
Anonymous Reply
I guess one is staples ft. gouki and the other one is balance ft. gouki
Anonymous
You don't decide a card to play, degayed decide it for you.
Anonymous
Noble Knight tier 1???
<< Anonymous
Yami Aster Reply
Here are also some other things that can help without medraut or merlin starting: Wait to activate the equip searcher when your opponent attacks. Add some canadia or floodgate to work with arf to pop your opponents monsters. Starting with borz can at least go through your deck quicker. Still, medraut and merlin are better to open with, though.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Sure they can combo off with 2 cards but the end result is a single xyz with 2 or 3 equips. The deck doesn’t have its own disruption or negation
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Balance is the reason it's the best deck like koaki used to be balance is op
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Kinda, the other day I played NK using other skills and boi I bricked often

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