Orcust Deck #764831 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters from the Link/Xyz/Fusion pool (Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon 3000 ATK, Dark Magician of Destruction 2800, Enlilgirsu 2600, Dingirsu 2600, Longirsu 2500, Number 90 2500) reached through Orcust Link routes; Board-control through hand traps and negation (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Dominus Impulse, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C) that protects a slower Extra Deck summon
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 starter from Girsu, Mulcharmy Fuwalos or Dark Magician Girl, or a Future Silence / Shining Sarcophagus search; then Orcust Harp Horror or Girsu recursion from the GY into a Link Summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Dominus Impulse, Droll & Lock Bird and Maxx C to interrupt the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild with Orcust Harp Horror and the Link route
• Recovery: Banish-from-GY recursion (Orcust Harp Horror, Orcust Cymbal Skeleton, Orcust Knightmare), Galatea-I searching a World Legacy monster or Orcustrated Babel, and Mulcharmy draws
• After siding: Not evaluable: Side Deck size is 0, so no post-side plan is registered

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: about 83% of 42-card decks that run 12 searcher-text cards show at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and Orcust Link and recursion routes give several independent starters (Girsu, Harp Horror, Dark Magician Girl, Mulcharmy). Its interaction is the strongest part of the system: nine hand traps and negations (including Ash Blossom, Impermanence, Dominus Impulse and Droll & Lock Bird) give about 79% odds of at least one hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand, which supports its going-second plan. Conversion and floor are not measured, because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling rests on the Extra Deck's Link and Xyz bosses (Enlilgirsu, Dingirsu, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon) and is scored as Inferred. The score is held back by 16 non-monster main-deck cards, about 14 singleton tech slots, and a 21.1% exact-archetype purity that spreads the deck across nine engines. Popularity of the Orcust archetype did not earn points; the score comes from consistency, interaction and boss output judged on the system, not from averaging the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Engine conflicts / archetype purity (-4); Banlist exposure (-1); Engine compactness (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · 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

• Dense interaction: nine hand traps and negations that work going second
• Several independent starters and GY-recursion lines that keep the deck from stalling on one card
• Broad Extra Deck boss pool with 2300-3000 ATK options from Link, Xyz and Fusion

Weaknesses

• No side deck registered, so no post-side adaptation
• 16 non-monster main-deck cards and many singleton tech slots raise brick and consistency risk
• Nine engines share a deck with only 21.1% exact-archetype purity, which makes sequencing harder

Critical choke points

• Orcust Link Summon requires an Orcust monster on the field to enable most lines (Inferred)
• Hand-trap timing: the deck needs an opponent's card or summon before Impermanence, Dominus Impulse or Droll can act (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 42 main, 15 extra, 0 side; copy limits respected (Maxx C 1/1, Foolish Burial 1/1, Crossout Designator 1/1, Droll & Lock Bird 2/2); Card stats and text excerpts for every listed card; Extra Deck breakdown: 11 Link, 2 Xyz, 2 Fusion; Exact-archetype purity 21.1% (12 of 57)
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities (hypergeometric, Main Deck only); Interaction density and going-second hand-trap coverage; Boss output and ceiling from card text; Recursion and resource estimates from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and D13 (no tournament data); Side-deck adaptability (no side deck registered)
• Data gaps: No recorded combos: combo ceiling, median and floor are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Usage-statistics mismatch: in this deck is false for 8 core cards (Longirsu, I:P Masquerena, Knightmare Phoenix, Knightmare Mermaid, Enlilgirsu, S:P Little Knight, Dingirsu, Galatea-I) that appear in the Extra Deck card list, so the reported 68% core coverage appears to ignore the Extra Deck; corrected coverage is about 100% Guides are for the Orcust archetype in general and do not map to this exact list (the Fiendsmith snippet references cards not present in this deck) Side deck is empty, so D12 cannot be measured Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied