Orcust Deck #756573 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link/Xyz boards built from Orcust Link and Xyz monsters (Galatea, Dingirsu, Longirsu, Enlilgirsu) after a GY-recursion engine converts starters into board.; Synchro/Fusion one-offs (Chaos Angel, Garura, Mudragon) as extra pressure when the Link line is stopped.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a self-recursing body (Orcust Harp Horror, Cymbal Skeleton, Girsu) or Mulcharmy draw engine, use Foolish Burial or Orcustrated Return to fuel the GY, then build a Link monster from the field.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 9 hand traps (Ash Blossom x3, Infinite Impermanence x3, Droll & Lock Bird x2, Maxx C) to stop the opponent's first summon chain, then resolve the Orcust engine through the cleared board.
• Recovery: Orcustrated Return (draw 2), Mulcharmy draw effects, Foolish Burial/Goods and Garura's draw to rebuild hand after an interruption.
• After siding: None: the list runs 0 side cards in a format allowing up to 15, so no post-side adjustment is available.

Why it scores here

The deck was scored as a connected system: the Orcust self-recursion engine, the Link/Xyz extra-deck payoffs, and the nine hand traps function together, not as an average of card scores. Its reliable opening is a three-copy Orcust body (Harp Horror, P(>=1 in a 5-card opener) about 0.34) that feeds the GY and enables a Link line, and its draw engines (Mulcharmy, Orcustrated Return) support recovery. Interaction is the strongest area (D7 76, D8 72): six Dominus traps, Ash x3, Infinite Impermanence x3 and Droll x2 give layered protection on the going-second turn. Closing power is moderate because the boss monsters depend on Link/Xyz material being alive after interaction, and the deck has no side deck, so it cannot adapt after siding. Popularity and archetype-usage stats confirm the list is real and accessible but did not raise the score, and no combo boards were supplied, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary with Stun secondary for the hand-trap-heavy going-second plan; the Stun component was applied through the Combo weight profile only (no separate blend applied).. Structural ≈ 60.6, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Engine dilution by splash (-1). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*60.6 + 0.20*55 + (-3) = 56.5, rounded to 56 (Meta provisional)

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

• Layered interaction: Dominus Spark/Impulse, Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Maxx C
• Self-recursive Orcust bodies that re-enable the engine after interruption
• Full 15-card Extra Deck with Link-based payoffs and draw-based recovery

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adjustment
• Low exact-name archetype purity (31%) with splash across Dominus, Mulcharmy, Mekk-Knight and World Legacy
• Multi-step Link/Xyz lines raise pilot error risk

Critical choke points

• The Orcust starter (3 copies, about 0.34 in a 5-card opener) must be live before the Link line can be built
• Link/Xyz bosses depend on material surviving the opponent's interaction

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status with 40 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side on Master Duel size rules; All copy limits satisfied (Foolish Burial, Maxx C, Reinforcement Limited 1; Droll and Super Polymerization Semi-Limited 2); Card text for hand traps, Dominus traps and Orcust engine cards; Archetype purity 31% and copy histogram
• Inferred: Starter and brick estimates from hypergeometric draw tables; Going-first and going-second power from dimension blends; Link/Xyz route reads from card text
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Ceiling and median output (no recorded boards)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: ceiling and median are text-only inference No tournament link: meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second and matchup results unknown Usage-stat core presence ignores Extra Deck cards: Galatea-I, Dingirsu, Enlilgirsu, Longirsu, S:P Little Knight and I:P Masquerena are listed as in_this_deck=false although the Extra list contains them, so core_present_pct (60%) and missing_core are unreliable Deck title is null