Orcust Deck #765472 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Blind-Second, Combo
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link/Fusion/Xyz board from Orcust and Dark Magician engines (Galatea x2, Master of Chaos, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction) with Gandora-G as a banish-powered closer; Mulcharmy draw pressure and Orcust recursion grind in long games
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Dark Magician Girl, Orcust Harp Horror, Girsu, Cymbal Skeleton) plus a searcher, then Link or Xyz into a single board while holding Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence for the first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 11 hand traps and Droll or Ash Blossom to answer the opponent's first summon or set, then rebuild through Orcust GY revival and Galatea-I-less Link routes
• Recovery: Orcust Harp Horror and Cymbal Skeleton revive from the GY, and Orcustrated Babel plus Mulcharmy draws refill the hand
• After siding: No side deck is registered; the list has no post-side plan (Master Duel is typically a single-game format)

Why it scores here

The deck opens a live engine on most hands: a 3-copy Orcust/Dark Magician starter has about a 34% chance of appearing in a 5-card opening hand, and the archetype core group is almost never absent, so the first board is reliable on paper (Inferred). Its interaction density is the strongest part of the list, with 11 hand traps, Infinite Impermanence, Dominus Impulse and Crescendo covering most first responses, which keeps going-second hands functional (about 88% chance of at least one hand trap in six cards, Inferred). The ceiling comes from Gandora-G, Master of Chaos, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon and Dark Magician of Destruction, but there are no recorded boards, so the median output and combo conversion rest on text reads rather than observed lines. The score is held down by weak deck coherence (only 23.6% of cards share the exact Orcust name, with four Mekk-Knight, four Mulcharmy, three Dark Magician and three Dominus copies pulling in different directions), by missing core Extra enablers (Longirsu, Dingirsu, Galatea-I, Enlilgirsu not present), and by the absence of any side deck. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and the score was built from the system's consistency, interaction, and resilience, not by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (disclosed; Midrange profile used for scoring). Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Engine conflict across sub-archetypes (-3); Missing core Extra enablers (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*57.6 + 0.20*52 - 5 ≈ 51

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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 suite (11 hand traps plus negate and removal traps) gives strong first-response coverage
• Searcher and revival text (Dark Magician Girl, Shining Sarcophagus, Orcust Harp Horror, Cymbal Skeleton) keeps hands functional
• Strong Extra Deck closers (Master of Chaos, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction) with Gandora-G as a banish-scaling finisher
• Legal list with restricted cards at legal copy counts

Weaknesses

• Low exact-name Orcust purity (23.6%) with several sub-archetypes competing for slots
• Brick and dead-card risk from 23 non-engine interaction and tech cards
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unmeasured
• Core Link enablers from the archetype stats are absent and TY-PHON has poor Level 12 access
• No side deck and no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Orcust Link or Galatea setup depends on having an Orcust monster on the field for the first Link Summon
• Shining Sarcophagus and Dark Magician Girl are the only routes to Gandora-G's summon condition
• Two Galatea are the only Link-2 Extra routes into the Orcust board without the missing core enablers

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal list: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side under Master Duel size rules; Restricted cards at legal copy counts: Foolish Burial 1 (Limited), Maxx C 1 (Limited), Droll & Lock Bird 2 (Semi-Limited); Archetype core inclusion statistics and missing core cards from usage_statistics; Exact-name Orcust purity 23.6%
• Inferred: Starter and searcher hypergeometric probabilities; Hand-trap coverage and brick risk; Engine conflict and Extra access (TY-PHON Level 12 constraint); Interaction quality read from card text and role tags
• Provisional: Meta power and tournament reliability; Matchup fit and side adaptability (no meta sample, no side deck)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck registered, so post-side performance cannot be assessed