Horus Deck #762966 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Revive Horus monsters (Imsety, Hapi, Qebehsenuef, Horus the Black Flame Deity) through King's Sarcophagus or Walls of the Imperial Tomb into 2400-3000 ATK boards.; Link-5 Underworld Goddess (3000 ATK, negates face-up opposing monsters) and Xyz Number 90 / Number 68 as extenders.
• Turn 1 (going first): Set Canopic Protector or Artifact Lancea, use Walls to search a Horus monster, then Normal Summon or set up a Sarcophagus-enabled revival.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Canopic Protector, Artifact Lancea or Artifact Moralltach to answer the opponent's first board, then revive Horus monsters from the GY through King's Sarcophagus.
• Recovery: Re-summon Horus monsters from the GY through King's Sarcophagus (up to four uses per turn) and recover Eldlich from the GY.
• After siding: None; side count is 0 and Duel Links has no sideboard step, so no post-side plan is evidenced.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: a King's Sarcophagus and Walls of the Imperial Tomb package (6 combined copies, both counted as Sarcophagus for revival) gives the Horus engine a reasonable chance to go live, with Walls adding a Horus search for redundancy. Interaction is spread across Canopic Protector, Artifact Lancea and Artifact Moralltach, which gives some resilience on either turn order. Floor and median output are scored well below the ceiling because no recorded boards exist and the Gaze of Timaeus plus three Dark Magician Fusions cannot be summoned with zero Dark Magician in the Main Deck. Popularity did not earn points: exact-name archetype purity is only 17.9%, and the deck scatters across Artifact, Eldlich, Chaos, Red-Eyes, Photon and Timaeus support. The score is not an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59.2, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Unfillable Dark Magician dependency (-4); Single revival choke point (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (no dated meta; Structural is meta-neutral with D13 dropped and weights re-normalized over 95): 0.80*59.2 + 0.20*58 - 6 ≈ 53

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.7 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.51 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.04 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Two-card revival engine with 6 Sarcophagus-named sources; Walls searches a Horus monster while also functioning as the revival enabler.
• Layered opponent-turn interaction: Canopic Protector x3, Artifact Lancea x3, Artifact Moralltach, and Eldlich recursion.
• Link-5 Underworld Goddess and Xyz Number 90 / Number 68 give the Extra Deck real closing and negation options.

Weaknesses

• Four dead slots: Gaze of Timaeus and three Dark Magician Fusions need Dark Magician, which the list does not run.
• Photon Jumper's GY search and Number 90's Photon-material protection have no Photon or Galaxy Spell/Trap support in the list.
• TY-PHON needs two Level 12 materials that the Main Deck does not contain, leaving it conditional on the opponent's Extra Deck summons.
• Exact-name purity is 17.9%: the list mixes Horus with Artifact, Eldlich, Chaos, Red-Eyes, Photon, Roid and Timaeus, which weakens engine coherence.
• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median output are text-only estimates.

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus / Walls of the Imperial Tomb are the only revival route for Imsety, Hapi and Qebehsenuef (6 copies combined).
• A Horus monster must be in hand or GY alongside a Sarcophagus-named card for the engine to start.
• The three Dark Magician Fusions and Gaze of Timaeus have no Dark Magician enabler; they are permanent dead slots.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal: 30 Main (20-30), 9 Extra (0-9), 0 Side; Limited and Semi-Limited copies within legal limits.; Exact-name archetype purity 17.9%; 15 distinct Main cards; 7 Horus-named Main copies.; Card text: King's Sarcophagus and Walls each revive or search Horus; Gaze of Timaeus and the three Dark Magician Fusions require Dark Magician.; Hypergeometric draw table for the 30-card Main Deck.
• Observed: No recorded boards (combos_evidence total_combos = 0).
• Inferred: Starter access ≈ 0.70 and key two-card combo ≈ 0.51 in opening 5.; Brick estimate ≈ 0.04 going first.; Interaction breadth and recursion reads from card text.; Going-second advantage from the 6-card draw odds (0.62 vs 0.51).
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup/format fit (D13 = 50) pending a dated metagame sample.; Side-deck adaptability (D12) since no sideboard exists in Duel Links.
• 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. usage_statistics extra-deck matching appears broken: 7 Extra-Deck cards present in this deck are reported as not in_this_deck and listed in missing_core; core_present_pct (42.1) is understated. Guide snippet is empty (' ', 0 sections), so no human strategic intent is available. No win-rate telemetry exists for going-first/second, matchups, brick or OTK rates; all such signals are Inferred. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. Dark Magician card text is not in the evidence; the fusion-enabler conclusion relies on the Fusion excerpts naming it.