Orcust Deck #751627 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Orcust Link and Extra Deck boards (Enlilgirsu, Dingirsu, Dark Magician of Destruction, Longirsu) built from Orcust GY recursion, with Azamina and Diabellstar secondary threats; Azamina Mu Rcielago and Azamina Ilia Silvia pressure once a Fusion line lands, with Diabellstar as a side route
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Harp Horror, Cymbal Skeleton or Girsu starter and extend into a Link; hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Dominus Impulse for the first opposing Special Summon or activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand to present hand traps (Ash, Impermanence, Droll, Maxx C, Dominus Impulse) against the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Orcust GY effects
• Recovery: Recover through Orcust GY effects (Harp Horror, Cymbal Skeleton, Orcustrated Babel, Orcust Crescendo) and Azamina/Sinful Spoils recursion; Inferred from card text, not from recorded boards
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel is single-game with no Side Deck (side_count 0); post-side plan is N/A

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional Orcust starter about one time in three from a 5-card hand for any single 3-copy starter (hypergeometric P≈0.34, Inferred), and its Orcust core group is almost always present (P≈0.999, Inferred). Its strongest system trait is interaction: nine hand traps and about twelve negation or removal effects give roughly an 81% chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand (Inferred), which is what drives the going-second and endboard-interaction scores. Conversion and median output are scored Inferred from card text only because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling (Extra-Deck Links and Fusions) and the floor are both uncertain. Exact-name archetype purity is only 25.5%, and the deck spreads across Dominus, Sinful Spoils, Azamina, Diabellstar, Mekk-Knight and World Legacy, which lowers engine coherence and brick resilience. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 57. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-3); going-second interaction density (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Dense hand-trap and negation suite (9 hand traps, about 12 negation/removal effects)
• Layered endboard interaction with Dominus Spark/Impulse, Impermanence and Crescendo
• Strong Extra-Deck closers at 2,600–2,800 ATK
• Orcust GY recursion gives resource recovery

Weaknesses

• Low exact-name purity (25.5%) and many off-archetype engines
• Single 3-copy starters are only about 34% likely in a 5-card hand
• Hand-trap-heavy hands can be dead without a starter
• No recorded combos or win-rate data to confirm the ceiling

Critical choke points

• Starter access: no single starter exceeds about 34% in an opening 5-card hand
• Extra-Deck Link materials: several Links depend on a small set of Orcust Link and Machine materials

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status with 40 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side; all restricted cards at legal copies (Limited 1, Semi-Limited Droll 2); Card text and stats for all 37 distinct cards; Archetype purity 25.5% and copy histogram {1:13, 2:3, 3:7}
• Inferred: Starter hypergeometric odds (Harp Horror, Cymbal, Girsu ≈ 0.34 each); Going-second hand-trap probability ≈ 0.81; Interaction density and endboard quality scores from card text; Ceiling and floor estimates from Extra-Deck link text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Side adaptability (single-game format)
• 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 signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics core presence appears to check only the Main Deck: all nine Extra-Deck core cards (e.g. Dingirsu, Enlilgirsu, Galatea-I, Knightmare Phoenix, Dark Magician of Destruction) are listed in cards with zone extra but flagged in_this_deck:false, so core_present_pct 64% likely understates true presence (25/25) deck title is null in the export