Orcust Deck #751897 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Orcust Link and Xyz boards (Girsu, Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos, Dingirsu, Enlilgirsu) plus Runick Extra Deck summons via Runick spells that skip the Battle Phase; Light and Darkness Ritual boss summons (Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos) when the ritual line is live
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Ragged Records of Rites, Runick Tip, Mind Shuffle) or an Orcust starter (Harp Horror, Girsu, Skull Archfiend), reach a Link, then Runick spell for Extra Monster Zone summon and removal
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Runick Freezing Curses or Orcust Crescendo to answer the opponent's first board, then extend through Orcust GY revivals and Galatea or Longirsu
• Recovery: Recycle Runick Quick-Play spells from the GY with Runick Fountain (illegal count, 1 legal copy) and use Orcustrated Return or Orcustrated Babel to draw and recur Orcust monsters
• After siding: No side deck (0 cards). No post-side plan is possible in a best-of-3 format.

Why it scores here

This Orcust list runs three engines at once (Orcust Link, Runick Quick-Play spells, and Light and Darkness Ritual) with only 24.6 percent exact-name archetype purity, so the starters are spread across sub-archetypes and not concentrated in one line. Starter access is moderate: P(at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.70 and P(at least one searcher) is about 0.82, but about 30 percent of opening hands have no core card, which is a real brick risk. The deck has 15 searcher-text cards and recursion through Orcustrated Return and Orcustrated Babel, so resource economy is decent, and its Extra Deck of 15 gives a high ceiling of Link and Xyz boss monsters. Interaction is strong on paper (34 removal-text cards, 6 negation-text cards) but there are no hand traps, so going-second board-breaking is weak. Popularity and archetype usage were not counted as power; the score comes from the consistency, interaction, and ceiling of the system, not from averaging card scores. The list is illegal (2 copies of Runick Fountain against a limit of 1), so this is a theoretical structural read and the final score is capped at 30.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo profile used; Midrange not blended into weights. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: Structural 53.0 with Combo weights; 0.80*53.0 + 0.20*45 = 51.4; engine-conflict modifier -3 gives 48.4 before the illegal cap; capped to 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural read only, Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.7 · 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

• Three overlapping engines give many starting routes (searcher-text 15 copies)
• Dense removal and negation text (34 removal, 6 negation) for a 15-card Extra Deck
• High end-board ATK from Link and Xyz bosses
• Recursion through Orcustrated Return and Orcustrated Babel

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Runick Fountain run 2 copies against a limit of 1
• No hand traps and no floodgates, so going-second interaction is thin
• No side deck (0 cards), so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Low archetype purity (24.6 percent) and 13 singleton slots dilute the engines

Critical choke points

• Quick-Play Runick spells all depend on the Extra Deck summon, so one Extra-Deck-to-field interruption can end the turn
• Archetype core brick risk: about 30 percent of 5-card hands miss the archetype core

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 54 cards, Extra 15 cards, Side 0 cards (legal size range); Runick Fountain run at 2 copies against a TCG limit of 1; deck status Illegal; Copy histogram: 13 singletons, 4 doubles, 11 triples; Extra Deck breakdown: Link 7, Fusion 5, Xyz 3; Archetype purity 24.6 percent (exact name)
• Inferred: P(at least one archetype-core card in 5-card hand) = 0.70; archetype core brick rate about 30 percent; Engine conflicts from three overlapping engines (Runick, Orcust, Light and Darkness Ritual); Ceiling and going-second strength from card text only (no boards)
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample; D13 matchup fit is a placeholder without a tournament link
• 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 and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck: post-side plan cannot be evaluated