Horus Deck #762950 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Revive Horus monsters from the GY with King's Sarcophagus (or Walls of the Imperial Tomb as its field-zone form) into 2400-3000 ATK boards, then close with Extra Deck Xyz/Link threats such as Super Starslayer TY-PHON, World Gears and Coach King Giantrainer.; Extra Deck pressure from Xyz and Link monsters (Super Starslayer TY-PHON, Dingirsu, Sanaphond, World Gears) once a field-zone enabler is live.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with King's Sarcophagus or Walls of the Imperial Tomb, search a Horus monster with Imsety or Walls, and revive Horus monsters from the GY once a Sarcophagus is face-up.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird, D.D. Crow or Nibiru (about 83% to hold at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand) to disrupt the opponent's first board, then revive Horus monsters through the Sarcophagus.
• Recovery: Rebuild from the GY: Sarcophagus, Imsety, Hapi, Duamutef and Qebehsenuef all revive from the GY, and Walls re-searches a Horus monster from the Deck.
• After siding: No side deck in Duel Links; the deck has no post-side plan, so any adjustment is limited to the Extra Deck choice before the match.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan only when one of its five field-zone enablers (3 King's Sarcophagus, 2 Walls of the Imperial Tomb) is in hand; this gives about 63% at least one enabler in a 5-card opening hand (going first) and about 70% in a 6-card hand (going second), both Inferred from hypergeometric math. Once live, Horus monsters revive from the GY and convert into 2400-3000 ATK bodies and Xyz/Link finishers, and the hand-trap package (7 copies) gives about 83% odds of holding one when going second. The score comes from consistency, interruption resilience, interaction density and closing power on the system as a whole, not from Horus being a popular archetype and not from averaging individual card scores. No recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences and are capped accordingly, and no post-side or matchup data exists, so those dimensions stay low-confidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 56.6, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 54. Modifiers: Unrecoverable choke point (-3); Engine compactness (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Final = 0.80*56.6 + 0.20*54 - 1 (modifiers) = 55.1 -> 55

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.63 · 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

• Revive engine built on King's Sarcophagus with 5 field-zone enablers.
• Layered interaction: 7 hand traps, Powersink Stone, Canopic Protector and negation/removal text.
• Strong Extra Deck closers: 3500 ATK World Gears, 2900 ATK TY-PHON, 2800 ATK Giantrainer.
• Compact 16-distinct-card Main Deck; all 19 archetype-standard core cards are present when Extra Deck is counted.

Weaknesses

• Low exact-name purity (20.5%) with 31 off-archetype copies.
• No sideboard and no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median cannot be measured.
• Single-enabler dependency: a dead field zone means the revive engine stops.
• Lava Golem (3 copies) needs opponent monsters to Tribute and is conditional.

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus / Walls of the Imperial Tomb in the field zone: all Horus GY revives depend on one of 5 copies being live.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in duel-links: 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side within size limits; all restricted cards within legal copies.; Composition: 20 monsters, 6 spells, 4 traps; 16 distinct Main Deck cards; exact-name Horus purity 20.5%.; Core cards: all 19 archetype-standard core cards are present when Extra Deck is counted; the export's 57.9% core_present_pct counts Main Deck only, so the 8 'missing core' cards are actually in the Extra Deck.; Card stats and text as listed in the evidence (e.g. Horus 3000 ATK, World Gears 3500 ATK).
• Inferred: P(at least one enabler in 5-card opening hand) = 0.63 (going first) and 0.70 (going second) (hypergeometric).; Hand-trap odds of 0.83 going second (matches export).; Revive engine ceiling and interruption resilience from card text only.; Interaction quality from card text.
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample).; Matchup fit and tournament reliability (no tournament link).; Side adaptability (no side deck exists in Duel Links).
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median, ceiling and board_per_starter are text-only inference. usage_statistics in_this_deck flags only the Main Deck: 8 Extra Deck core cards are marked 0 copies but are present in the cards list. Core coverage is 19/19 when Extra Deck is counted. No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent. No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. Guide 1490 has no usable snippet (empty section).