Horus Deck #762825 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Xyz/Link
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 29 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Level 8 Horus monsters (Imsety, Qebehsenuef, Hapi, Duamutef, Horus the Black Flame Deity) re-summoned from the GY through King's Sarcophagus, feeding a 3000-ATK board and Xyz/Link finishers.; Level 8 Xyz finishers (Number 90, Number 68) and Link-line pressure built from the Horus monsters used as material.
• Turn 1 (going first): Start from one of the five engine copies (3 King's Sarcophagus, 2 Walls of the Imperial Tomb). Walls searches a Horus monster and becomes Sarcophagus in the Field Zone; use Sarcophagus to send Horus monsters to the GY, then Special Summon Imsety or another Horus from the GY and build toward a Level 8 Xyz or Link.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold the hand traps (D.D. Crow x3, Droll & Lock Bird x2, Nibiru x2, Canopic Protector x3) to disrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild the Sarcophagus engine on your own turn.
• Recovery: Walls of the Imperial Tomb recovers a Horus monster from the Deck, Sarcophagus and Imsety recur Horus monsters from the GY, and Duamutef, Hapi and Qebehsenuef come back from the GY while Sarcophagus is face-up.
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no side deck (side_count 0).

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its engine: five copies of King's Sarcophagus (3) and Walls of the Imperial Tomb (2) give a 64% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred hypergeometric), and the Level 8 Horus monsters feed both Xyz and Link summons. Its resilience comes from seven hand traps (D.D. Crow, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) plus Canopic Protector and Powersink Stone, which give it several ways to answer a going-second board. Its weak points are three Lava Golems whose Special Summon requires the opponent to control monsters to tribute, and the lack of recorded boards or win-rate data, so the ceiling and median are text-based only. Archetype popularity and usage statistics confirm the list is a real, accessible build, but they earned no points here, and the score comes from consistency, recursion, and interaction on the system rather than from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 57, Going Second ≈ 61, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 57. Modifiers: unrecoverable choke point (-2); banlist exposure (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*58.36 + 0.20*57 - 2 = 56.1

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.64 · 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

• Five engine copies (Sarcophagus and Walls) give a 64% chance of a live engine in a 5-card opening hand.
• Level 8 Horus monsters are shared by Xyz and Link routes, so Extra Deck slots connect to the Main Deck engine.
• Seven hand traps and Powersink Stone give several answers to both first-turn boards and continued play.
• Strong GY recursion (Sarcophagus, Imsety, Walls) gives resource regeneration after a disruption.

Weaknesses

• Three Lava Golems require the opponent to control monsters to tribute, so they are dead cards when the opponent's field is empty.
• Only 18.4% exact-name Horus purity, with 31 off-archetype copies and no recorded combos to show how the list converts.
• Terminal Walls and Sarcophagus copies add a second dependency when the engine is disrupted.
• TY-PHON needs two Level 12 monsters, and the Main Deck has none, so its summon route is conditional.

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus must be face-up for GY Horus Special Summons; without it the Horus recursion stops.
• Walls of the Imperial Tomb is the only non-Sarcophagus engine piece and is limited to 2 copies.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status, Main 29 / Extra 9 / Side 0 within the Duel Links size rules, Coach King Giantrainer 1/1 Limited and Photon Jumper 1/2 Semi-Limited.; Card text and stat lines for the Horus engine and the Extra Deck monsters.; Archetype purity: 7 exact-name Horus copies out of 38 (18.4%).
• Inferred: P(at least one engine card in a 5-card opening hand) = 0.642; 6-card hand = 0.717 (hypergeometric, Main Deck only).; Lava Golem is a brick when the opponent controls no monsters.; Hand-trap and GY-recursion lines provide resilience and resource regeneration.
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample).; Median output (no recorded boards).
• Data gaps: No combos supplied (total_combos 0), so the ceiling, median, and going-first/second splits are text-only. No tournament link, no win-rate telemetry, and no dated metagame sample. Usage statistics mark Number 90, Number 68, Dingirsu, Dark Magician of Destruction, Underworld Goddess, Coach King, S:P Little Knight, and TY-PHON as not in this deck, but the cards array lists them in the Extra Deck. The in_this_deck flag appears to ignore the Extra Deck, so core_present_pct (55) is likely understated. The only guide (id 1490) has an empty snippet and no sections, so it adds no strategic evidence. Duel Links has no side deck, so D12 cannot be scored from data.