Orcust Deck #765123 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Stun
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Orcust link and xyz pressure built from graveyard-engine boards, closed by high-ATK extra-deck monsters such as Enlilgirsu, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Master of Chaos and TY-PHON (Inferred); Board destruction and banishing through Dark Magician of Destruction, Gandora and Master of Chaos when the engine is live (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Girsu or Harp Horror summon or graveyard banish to fetch Orcust monsters, then Link Summon into Galatea for a second body (Inferred from card text and guide snippets)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Dominus Impulse, Maxx C, Ghost Ogre, Droll) to answer the opponent's first summon or link, then convert the surviving board into extra-deck pressure (Inferred)
• Recovery: Rebuild from the graveyard using Harp Horror, Cymbal Skeleton, Orcustrated Babel and Crescendo as recursion and searchers, plus World Legacy Token generation from Girsu (Inferred)
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no side deck (side_count 0 in evidence)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional Orcust engine: Harp Horror, Girsu and Cymbal Skeleton give several graveyard-triggered starters, and the hypergeometric estimate for the 8 Orcust starter copies is about 0.69 in a going-first five-card hand (Inferred). Its graveyard recursion (Harp Horror, Cymbal, Babel, Crescendo) and its 11 hand traps give it a plausible going-second answer layer, but no recorded boards exist, so the floor and median are unmeasured and scored at a neutral 50. The strongest closers (Enlilgirsu, Red-Eyes Dragoon, Master of Chaos, TY-PHON) add real end-board power, while the 42 off-archetype copies (Mulcharmy, Dark Magician, Dominus, Knightmare, Chaos, Timaeus) dilute the engine and cost a modest modifier. Popularity and archetype usage were not credited; the score comes from consistency, recursion, interaction and closing on the system, not from averaging card scores. Meta Power is provisional because no dated metagame sample exists.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); off-archetype dilution and engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*63 + 0.20*60 - 4 = 58.4

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.69 · 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

• Legal 40/15/0 build with no copy-limit violations
• Strong graveyard recursion and redundant Orcust starters (Harp Horror, Girsu, Cymbal Skeleton)
• Dense hand-trap layer (11 copies) for going second
• High-ATK extra-deck closers such as Enlilgirsu, Red-Eyes Dragoon, Master of Chaos and TY-PHON

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median are unmeasured
• Off-archetype padding (42 copies) weakens engine coherence
• Hand-trap density (11) risks dead draws going first
• No side deck and no tournament or meta data

Critical choke points

• Two Galatea copies are the main Link-2 enabler for the Orcust line
• Harp Horror and Girsu copies in hand gate the going-first starter

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status under Master Duel banlist; Maxx C and Foolish Burial at 1 copy (Limited), Droll at 2 copies (Semi-Limited); Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts and copy histogram (6 at 3 copies, 6 at 2, 10 at 1); Extra breakdown: 10 Link, 3 Fusion, 2 Xyz; Card stats for all listed monsters
• Inferred: Starter access of about 0.69 for the 8 Orcust starter copies; Hand-trap and interaction role reads from card text; Going-first and going-second plan descriptions; Recursion and resilience reads from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Side adaptability (no side deck in format)
• 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 are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for this deck usage_statistics in_this_deck flags read false for Extra Deck cards that are present in the cards list, so missing-core claims are unreliable archetype_core_group probability of 0.9993 is a proxy, not a hand-brick measure Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied