Horus the Black Flame Dragon Deck #756775 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Sun God / Ra boss monsters (The Winged Dragon of Ra, Sun God fusions) converting a board through Tribute-based Special Summons and direct beatdown; Exodia pieces as a conditional one-card finisher; Horus Special Summons from King's Sarcophagus recursion
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Sun God or Millennium starter (Helpoemer, Golem, Sengenjin, Heart of the Blue-Eyes) and build toward a Ra or Horus boss while holding Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold six cards with hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence) to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild through searchers
• Recovery: Recur Horus and Sun God monsters from the GY through King's Sarcophagus and the Horus Special Summon effects, then rebuild with the Millennium searchers
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck opens functional hands often because its searcher density is very high (34 searcher-text cards, P of at least one searcher in an opening 5 is about 0.99, Inferred from the hypergeometric draw table). Its interaction is the strongest part of the system: 11 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards with roughly 0.72 odds of at least one hand trap in a going-second 6, which lifts the interaction and resilience dimensions. Conversion is the weakest link: the Sun God, Ra, Horus, Millennium and Exodia engines share few cards, purity against any single archetype is 0% of copies, and there are no recorded boards to measure a median or ceiling, so the scores rest on card text and structure. The score is not an average of card scores and does not reward the popularity of Horus; the list is also Illegal (four copy-limit violations including two Forbidden cards), so the final score is capped and labelled structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, no secondary weighting applied. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-6); Engine conflicts (-4); No side deck (-3); Hard-garnet and choke burden (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(56) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) = 54, then context modifiers -15 = 39, then capped to 35 because the list is Illegal (structural-only, theoretical)

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

• Very high searcher density gives reliable access to starters
• Eleven hand traps and thirteen negation-text cards give layered interaction on the opponent's turn
• Redundant recursion from the GY through King's Sarcophagus and Horus effects

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: four copy-limit violations including two Forbidden cards
• Five archetypes compete for slots with 0% exact-archetype purity
• No side deck and no recorded boards to validate any line

Critical choke points

• Five Exodia pieces must all be drawn for the Exodia finisher, which is a hard garnet burden
• Ra summons depend on Tribute and the Winged Dragon of Ra being in hand or GY
• Forbidden cards must be removed before the list can be played at all

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0 (size rule for tcg: main 40-60, extra 0-15); Four copy-limit violations: Ash Blossom 3/2, Droll 2/1, Dugares 1/0 (Forbidden), Bagooska 1/0 (Forbidden); Archetype spread: 75 off-archetype copies; 0% exact-name purity; Card text, types and banlist status from evidence cards list
• Inferred: Searcher and archetype-core hit rates from hypergeometric estimates; Interaction density and hand-trap value from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates from the structure above
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Format fit (D13) and matchup coverage (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: Legality is Illegal, so the score is structural-only and capped No combos_evidence boards (combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only) No tournament link, so meta-share and match record are absent No win-rate or brick-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN No side deck registered usage_statistics lists S:P Little Knight and Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord as not in this deck (in_this_deck false), but the cards list shows one copy of each in the Extra Deck; the core-card comparison is inconsistent and was not relied on