Horus Deck #765156 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Horus monsters at 3000 ATK (Imsety, Horus the Black Flame Deity, Lava Golem) and Extra Deck XYZ/Link pressure, enabled by King's Sarcophagus / Walls of the Imperial Tomb graveyard-summon routes; Underworld Goddess (Link 5, 3000 ATK) and Number 68 / Number 90 boss monsters off the Horus engine
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Walls or King's Sarcophagus (or a searcher that reaches them), set up a Sarcophagus-named field, then Special Summon Horus monsters from the GY to build a board protected from opponent card effects
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Droll & Lock Bird, D.D. Crow, Canopic Protector, Nibiru) to break the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through the Sarcophagus GY-summon routes
• Recovery: Walls of the Imperial Tomb searches a Horus monster from Deck each turn; Sarcophagus-named enablers in the GY can be re-summoned via Imsety / Hapi / Qebehsenuef / Duamutef
• After siding: No side deck in Duel Links; the deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Horus line because six cards (3 King's Sarcophagus and 3 Walls of the Imperial Tomb) can serve as the enabler, and 7 searcher-text cards add a ~76% chance of at least one searcher in the opening 5. It converts that line into 3000-ATK Horus monsters and Extra Deck XYZ/Link pressure, while the graveyard-summon routes give it some recovery after an interruption. Its interaction is spread across hand traps (Droll, D.D. Crow, Canopic Protector, Nibiru) and Extra Deck negation (Number 38, Underworld Goddess, Number 90), so the end board is layered rather than single-threaded. The score is held back by the nine off-archetype or bricky cards (Soul Servant, Maju, Powersink Stone, Mulcharmy, and others), exact-name archetype purity of only 20.5%, and the absence of any recorded boards, tournament result or dated meta sample. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage stats were used only to confirm the deck is a recognisable build, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange, with D13 dropped and the remaining weights renormalised (divide by 95) because meta is provisional. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural is meta-neutral (D13 dropped, renormalised): 5510/95 = 58.0; 0.80*58 + 0.20*55 = 57.4 → 57

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.7 · 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

• Six enabler copies (3 King's Sarcophagus, 3 Walls) give redundancy for the Horus GY-summon routes
• Seven searcher-text cards and Walls search a Horus monster from Deck
• Layered interaction: hand traps plus Extra Deck negations (Number 38, Number 90, Underworld Goddess)
• High-ATK closers at 3000 ATK

Weaknesses

• Exact-name archetype purity is only 20.5%; several off-plan bricks
• No recorded boards, tournament results or dated meta sample, so combo and matchup scores are inferred
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Full 9-card Extra Deck with no flex slot

Critical choke points

• If the opponent removes or negates the Sarcophagus/Walls field before the Horus monsters are summoned, most GY-summon routes go dark (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 within Duel Links size rules (main 20–30, extra 0–9); Restricted cards Coach King Giantrainer (Limited, 1 copy run), Bystial Druiswurm and Photon Jumper (Semi-Limited, 1 copy run each) are within legal copies; Copy histogram 9×1, 6×2, 3×3 sums to 30 main cards; Card text and stats for all 39 cards; Archetype usage stats: 22 rows, 5 core cards at 100% inclusion
• Inferred: Starter availability ≈ 0.70 (hypergeometric over the six Sarcophagus/Walls cards); Engine redundancy and recovery read from card text; Interaction breadth read from text and flags; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and D13 (no tournament link); Side-deck 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 absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, starter or brick rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample usage_statistics flags Number 90, Dingirsu, Number 68, Underworld Goddess, S:P Little Knight, Dark Magician of Destruction, and Coach King as in_this_deck=false with copies_in_deck=0, but these cards appear with zone=extra in the cards list; core_present_pct 55% is therefore understated (recount: 18 of 20 core cards present, missing only Super Starslayer TY-PHON and Knightmare Phoenix). Treated as a preprocessor inconsistency, not used in scoring. Guide (id 1490) has an empty snippet and no sections, so no strategic intent could be read from it