Egyptian God Deck #428016 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Egyptian God monsters (Obelisk the Tormentor 4000 ATK, Horus 3000 ATK) converted into board pressure; Link and Xyz beatsticks (Underworld Goddess, Black Luster Soldier, Garunix Eternity) once the board is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Search The True Sun God or Imsety/Horus support and attempt a Tribute Summon of an Egyptian God; hope to hit one of the three-copy starters in the opening 5
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Canopic Protector and Soul Energy MAX!!! as responses, then rebuild through Horus monsters revived from the GY by King's Sarcophagus, provided that Sarcophagus is in hand or the field
• Recovery: Recur Horus monsters from the GY via King's Sarcophagus and Walls of the Imperial Tomb; Imsety and Duamutef can self-revive while Sarcophagus is live
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists; the list cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its card scores. Its consistency is limited: the three-copy engine starters (King's Sarcophagus, Imsety, Walls of the Imperial Tomb) give roughly a one-in-three chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and the Egyptian God summons depend on Tribute requirements that create dead or conflicting hands. Its ceiling is high, because Obelisk and Horus can end a game in one turn, but its median output is much lower without the full chain. The deck runs a large share of off-archetype cards (46 of 56 main/extra copies are not exact Egyptian God names), which weakens engine cohesion. Interaction is broad (Breaking Ruin God, Skill Drain, Harpie's Feather Duster, There Can Be Only One), but it is not backed by a side deck. The Illegal status (2 copies of the Forbidden Apollousa) caps the final score for theoretical and structural read only; popularity and archetype identity earned no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 44, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(44) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 42.2; context modifiers -12 (banlist exposure) = 30.2; Illegal legality cap applied, final = 25 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.33 · 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

• Broad interaction suite (negation and removal text across 6 and 12 cards)
• High ceiling with Obelisk and Horus on the field
• Searcher density (19 cards) gives a high chance of finding a search effect in the opening hand

Weaknesses

• Illegal: 2 copies of the Forbidden Apollousa
• Engine cohesion is low: 46 of 56 main copies are off the exact archetype name
• No side deck
• Tribute-heavy summons and level-0 spell density create brick risk

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus (3 copies) gates the entire Horus recursion engine
• Egyptian God Tribute summon requirements
• Single-copy Extra Deck link/xyz enablers

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Apollousa is Forbidden and 2 copies are run (legal copies 0); Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 sizes are within master-duel size rules; Archetype purity: 10 exact-name copies vs 46 off-archetype
• Inferred: P(>=1 three-copy starter in hand 5) ≈ 0.33; Consistency and brick estimates from text plus probability; Ceiling and median ratings from card text (no recorded boards)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (d13)
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage statistics core list appears cross-archetype (Kashtira, Dark Magician, etc.), so 0/25 core presence is weak evidence for this Egyptian God build no side deck, so post-side performance cannot be scored