Orcust Deck #453151 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

20 Main, 9 Extra, incl. Scrap Recycler x3, Orcust Cymbal Skeleton x2, Orcust Harp Horror x2 - Skill: Precious Cards of the Dark. Created Mar 15, 2025 by YGO Mod.

Created by: YGO Mod (20517634)

Created On: 03/15/2025

Official AI Deck Power Analysis

ComboConfidence: Medium

63± 6/ 100

Power Score

Structural 64

Reliability 62

Going First 66

Going Second 60

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 63/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

Overall score	Value
Structural Deck Power	64
Going First	66
Going Second	60
Meta Power	provisional
Tournament Reliability	62

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

Legality

Main 20 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

Win condition: Link and Xyz pressure from Orcustrion (3000), Longirsu (2500) and Dingirsu (2600) built off Orcust graveyard summons; Knightmare Unicorn and Knightmare Phoenix co-link pressure with draw and removal
Turn 1 (going first): Summon Brass Bombard or Scrap Recycler, use Orcust GY effects (Cymbal Skeleton, Harp Horror) to chain special summons into a link or Xyz, then use Forbidden Droplet or Orcustrated Babel to keep the board
Turn 2 (going second): Use Forbidden Droplet and Terrors of the Overroot on the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Orcustrated Return and GY Orcust effects
Recovery: Multiple independent GY-activated Orcust effects (Cymbal Skeleton, Harp Horror, Brass Bombard, Orcust Knightmare, World Wand) let the deck re-summon after a single removal or negate
After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links is single-game and the deck runs no side deck

Why it scores here

The deck opens a live Orcust engine reliably: the 11-copy archetype core gives about a 0.99 chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred hypergeometric), and several GY-activated effects (Cymbal Skeleton, Harp Horror, Brass Bombard, Knightmare, World Wand) give independent routes to re-summon. Its ceiling comes from a strong Extra Deck of Link and Xyz bosses (Orcustrion 3000, Dingirsu 2600, Longirsu 2500), which score on the system's conversion rather than on any card average. Interaction is modest but real, with two Forbidden Droplet, two Mystical Space Typhoon, Terrors of the Overroot and the Orcustrion negate. Popularity and the archetype's usage share were used only to confirm a standard list, not to add points. No combo boards, median output or matchup data exist, so the floor, median and meta reads are Inferred or Provisional and the band is kept at ±6.

Dimension scores

#	Dimension	Score	Evidence
D1	Engine Accessibility & Consistency	74	P(at least one archetype-core card in opening 5) ≈ 0.99 across 11 copies; multiple hand and GY starters (Inferred)
D2	Opening-Hand Quality & Brick Management	62	20-card main with 7 spells and only 12 monster types; several monsters work only from the GY, so some hands stall (Inferred)
D3	Combo Conversion & Ceiling	64	Link and Xyz boss routes (Orcustrion, Dingirsu, Longirsu) are strong, but no recorded boards to confirm conversion (Inferred)
D4	Combo Floor & Median Output	55	No recorded combo boards, so the median output is not measurable; scored at a neutral prior (Provisional)
D5	Interruption Resilience & Route Redundancy	66	Five GY-activated effects and Linkuriboh recursion give separate re-entry routes after one removal (Inferred)
D6	Resource Economy, Recovery & Grind	68	Orcustrated Return draws 2 and Knightmare Phoenix and Unicorn draw on link; banish recycling supports the Extra Deck (Inferred)
D7	End-Board & Interaction Quality	66	Two Forbidden Droplet, two MST, Terrors and the Orcustrion negate; layering is limited to one or two answers per turn (Inferred)
D8	Going-Second & Board-Breaking Power	58	Going-second board breaking relies on Droplet and Terrors; no going-second split exists in the data (Inferred)
D9	Offensive Pressure & Closing Power	72	End-board potential of 2600 to 3000 ATK link and Xyz bosses with direct pressure from Longirsu and Orcustrion (Verified stat, Inferred closing)
D10	Main Deck Efficiency & Flexibility	62	Legal 20-card main, 12 distinct cards, 2-copy core, 14 of 29 non-Extra copies off the exact archetype name, so some engine dilution (Verified composition, Inferred efficiency)
D11	Extra Deck Efficiency & Coverage	68	9 Extra Deck cards: 7 Link and 2 Xyz, covering a mix of boss and utility Links, with two Galatea and two Dingirsu (Verified composition)
D12	Side Deck Adaptability	45	Duel Links is single-game and the deck runs 0 side cards; no post-side data exists (Provisional)
D13	Matchup Coverage & Format Fit	50	Archetype usage stats are present, but no tournament link or dated meta sample; matchup fit is unmeasured (Provisional)
D14	Pilotability & Error Tolerance	52	Multi-step GY chains with link and Xyz summon sequencing and several per-turn limits raise decision load (Inferred)

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: off-archetype dilution (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*64.3 + 0.20*62 - 1 ≈ 62.8 → 63

Probability & combo summary

Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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

11-copy archetype core gives near-certain access to a starter
Strong Link and Xyz boss pool (Orcustrion 3000, Dingirsu 2600, Longirsu 2500)
Several independent GY-activated re-summon effects
Legal and compact 20-card main with copy counts within limits

Weaknesses

No recorded combo boards, so ceiling and median are unverified
Engine dilution from off-archetype copies (Scrap, Forbidden, Dark Magician, Kuriboh)
Interaction is limited to a few negates and removal (two Droplet, two MST)
No side deck and no post-side plan in Duel Links

Critical choke points

Getting an Orcust monster into the GY for the engine (depends on discards and sends)
Single Orcustrion negate and link-boss commitment for the board

Recommended changes

Priority	Remove	Add	Reason
1	Apprentice Illusion Magician	A second Orcust Knightmare or Galatea	Off-archetype Dark Magician brick risk; the Orcust engine lacks a plain Orcust starter in some hands
2	Terrors of the Overroot	Orcust Harp Horror (third copy)	The trap is a narrow answer; a third copy of a GY starter adds re-entry consistency

Evidence & confidence

Verified: Main 20, Extra 9, 0 side; all copy counts within limits and Unlimited on the duel-links ban field; Archetype usage shows 15 core cards at 100% or 71% inclusion; Hypergeometric draw odds for the 11-copy core and single-copy cards
Inferred: Starter access ~0.99 and a moderate brick rate from GY-dependent effects; Interaction breadth and layering from card text (Droplet, MST, Terrors, Orcustrion negate); Link and Xyz conversion potential from boss ATK and text
Provisional: Meta and matchup fit (no dated sample or tournament data); Going-second and post-side reads (no win-rate telemetry)
Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample usage_statistics flags Longirsu, Orcustrion, Galatea and Dingirsu as in_this_deck=false and lists them in missing_core, but the cards array includes all four (Galatea and Dingirsu x2 each); the usage join is inconsistent and was not relied on for the core count duel-links side range is 0-9 but the deck runs 0 side cards, so post-side adaptability is unmeasured

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