Duel Links Meta Snapshot December 2025 Week #2

Published on December 8th, 2025 by
Bismut

Tournament Analysis

Hello! This Tournament Analysis article series aims to summarize the tournament-winning metagame based on data from a weeklong period (for both Speed and Rush formats).

Today's report is based on tournaments held from November 01, 2025 to December 08, 2025

  • Speed Format
  • Rush Format

Performance Metric

Remarks

Meta seems to be starting to stabilize, with Shinobird losing presence, probably due to Droll being in every deck in the current format.

Tournaments considered

Format Players 1st 2nd Top 4 Top 4
Meta Weekly #405 SE/No Side 16 Thunder Dragon Shinobird Blue Eyes Dino
Quantum Dailies #494 SE/No Side 54 Blue Eyes Speedroid Speedroid Beetrooper
Suisen Weekly #178 SE/No Side 41 Blue Eyes Blue Eyes Adamancipator Predaplant
Sky Striker Cup #70 SE/No Side 34 Chimera Mikanko Shinobird Swordsoul
Starry Cup #79 SE/No Side 51 Beetrooper Predaplant Blue Eyes Chimera
Starry Cup #80 SE/No Side 78 Shinobird Dino Adamancipator Predaplant
Starry Cup #81 SE/No Side 64 Shinobird Chimera Blue Eyes Beetrooper
Quantum Dailies #496 SE/No Side 53 Exosister Chimera Despia Blue Eyes
Duel Links Weekend League #13 SE/No Side 50 Blue Eyes Tindangle Floowandereeze Blue Eyes
Cloudy City Weekly #59 Swiss/No Side 60 Speedroid Swordsoul Predaplant Thunder Dragon
Quantum Dailies #495 SE/No Side 54 Chimera Vaylantz Predaplant Predaplant
Fraud Nexus Circuit #24 SE/No Side 69 Beetrooper Tindangle Chimera Shinobird
Duel Links Dynasty #39 SE/No Side 51 Swordsoul Blue Eyes Predaplant Chimera

Winning Deck Examples

1st Place in Meta Weekly #405 - Cris Olivier
1st Place in Quantum Dailies #494 - HΞΔVΞN
1st Place in Sky Striker Cup #70 - Nexa
1st Place in Starry Cup #79 - skillShot
1st Place in Starry Cup #80 - mays
1st Place in Quantum Dailies #496 - Sanji64
1st Place in Cloudy City Weekly #59 - Mastercards
1st Place in Duel Links Dynasty #39 - Diuan
Skill Virtuous Bonds
20 cards
Incredible Ecclesia, the Virtuous
Incredible Ecclesia, the Virtuous
Incredible Ecclesia, the Virtuous
Droll & Lock Bird
Droll & Lock Bird
Droll & Lock Bird
The Iris Swordsoul
Fallen of Albaz
Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan
Swordsoul of Taia
Swordsoul of Mo Ye
Swordsoul of Mo Ye
The Golden Swordsoul
The Golden Swordsoul
Dark Hole
Swordsoul Emergence
Swordsoul Emergence
Swordsoul Emergence
Swordsoul Blackout
Swordsoul Sacred Summit
Albion the Branded Dragon
Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying
Swordsoul Grandmaster - Chixiao
Draco Berserker of the Tenyi
Adamancipator Risen - Dragite
Buster Dragon
Dingirsu, the Orcust of the Evening Star
Baxia, Brightness of the Yang Zing
Swordsoul Sinister Sovereign - Qixing Longyuan

Prerequisites

  • A registered Konami ID linked to your master duel game
  • Must login to Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards DB using the same Konami ID
  • If the Yu-Gi-Oh! DB website asks to login with Game Card ID just click "I don't have a game card ID" and fill some basic information to proceed

Export Guide

- Via the MDM extension (Recommended): Download on Firefox, or Chromium Browsers
For Chromium browsers (Chrome/Edge/Opera/Brave...etc) just click "Add to chrome" on the store page and it'll work on most if not all chromium browsers.
After using the extension, go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it
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- Manually
  1. Click here to copy the export code
    2.
  2. Go to Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards DB and click My Deck => Add a Deck
  3. Once the deck page loads click Edit then do one of the following based on the platform your device is running:
    • (PC Only): Press F12 to open the DevTools window => Navigate to the Console tab in the window => Paste the export code => Hit Enter
    • OR (Other platforms/PC): In the address bar of the current tab remove the URL and type "javascript:" without the quotations then paste the export code, then if you're on mobile look for the *globe* icon and tap on it to run the code (Chrome only), for PC users just hit enter.
  4. The deck will save automatically
  5. Go to the Master Duel game => Main menu => Deck option => The Card database option at the top right corner => locate the deck you exported and copy it

Click here for a more detailed guide

Performance Metric

Remarks

Not a very good first week for new decks (Aqua, RB, Hero) but the meta seems more diverse now.

Tournaments considered

Format Players 1st 2nd Top 4 Top 4
Rush Duel Links Weekly #47 SE/No Side 28 Jointech Neos Aqua Red-Boot
Rush Duel Dynasty #29 SE/No Side 29 Hero Neos Sevens Road Jointech
Galaxy Rush #35 SE/No Side 31 Aqua Sevens Road Music Princess Music Princess
Quantum Rush #88 SE/No Side 34 Music Princess Jointech Red-Boot Jointech
Starry Rush #13 SE/No Side 20 Music Princess Music Princess Metarion Aqua

Winning Deck Examples

1st Place in Rush Duel Links Weekly #47 - Soliman
1st Place in Rush Duel Dynasty #29 - Yadensword
1st Place in Galaxy Rush #35 - Paco
1st Place in Quantum Rush #88 - Juninho

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