Orcust Deck #452610 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Tempo
• Format: duel-links

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Graveyard-triggered Orcust summons chaining into Extra Deck Link/Xyz/Synchro monsters, closing with 2500-2900 ATK boards (Sorciere de Fleur, Sauge de Fleur, Cosmo Queen, Dingirsu, Longirsu, Clear Wing).; World Legacy hand-based Special Summons and Normal Summon searches supporting the Orcust core, with a small set of Forbidden Droplet and Decode Talker interaction backups.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Scrap Recycler or discard Orcustrated Return/Trade-In to fuel the GY, then chain GY effects (Orcust Harp Horror, Orcust Cymbal Skeleton, Orcust Brass Bombard) into a Link Summon.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Forbidden Droplet x2 to halve and negate opponent Effect Monsters, then rebuild a board through Sorciere de Fleur or World Legacy hand Special Summons and Trade-In card flow.
• Recovery: Orcustrated Return and Trade-In draw 2 each, and Orcustrated Babel recovers from the GY, so a lost board can be rebuilt across turns if the hand has enough discard fodder.
• After siding: No side deck exists in Duel Links; the post-interruption plan is the same main deck with a re-ordered line.

Why it scores here

The Orcust list reliably opens a starter: the 11 archetype-core copies give about a 92% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and the searcher text group about 70%. Its conversion ceiling is credible because the GY-triggered Orcust monsters feed Link and Xyz summons (Galatea, Dingirsu, Longirsu), and the ATK spread of 2500 to 2900 closes games. Brick risk is the main weakness: Sorciere de Fleur needs an opponent GY monster, Trade-In needs a Level 8 to discard, and Cosmo Queen is a dead card without tributes. No combo boards were recorded, so the floor and median are inferred from text and not measured, and the score was not built by averaging individual card scores, nor by the popularity of the Orcust archetype. Duel Links has no side deck, so adaptability is scored low and provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 56.4, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Opponent-GY and Level-8 dependence (dead-card burden) (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*56.4 + 0.20*50 - 2 = 53

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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

• Core engine is accessible: about 92% chance of at least one archetype-core card in an opening hand.
• Strong ATK boards at 2500 to 2900 across Sorciere, Sauge, Cosmo Queen, Dingirsu, Longirsu and Clear Wing.
• Draw and recovery package: Orcustrated Return x3, Trade-In x3, and Orcustrated Babel.

Weaknesses

• Brick risk from Sorciere de Fleur (opponent-GY dependent), Trade-In (needs Level 8), and Cosmo Queen (Normal Monster).
• Only 38.5% exact archetype purity; 24 off-archetype copies dilute the GY engine.
• No hand traps and no floodgates; going-second interaction is limited to Forbidden Droplet x2 and Decode Talker.

Critical choke points

• Opening with no GY fuel for the Orcust GY-trigger chain leaves Harp Horror and Cymbal Skeleton unlit.
• Dingirsu and Galatea, both core-usage Extra Deck cards, are absent, so the Extra Deck lacks its main Orcust Link/Xyz payoffs.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 30 main / 9 extra / 0 side, all within Duel Links size rules; all copy counts within BanDuelLink limits.; Card text and ATK/DEF values from the resolved card list.; Archetype usage stats (core inclusion percentages) and exact-name archetype purity of 38.5%.
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter, core-group and searcher probabilities.; Starter, interaction and brick reads from card text, plus the consistency and interaction scores.; Going-first and going-second power estimates.
• Provisional: Meta Power (null; no dated metagame sample).; Matchup coverage and side adaptability (no matchup data; Duel Links has no side deck).
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null in the source record