Horus Deck #765949 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Sarcophagus-enabled revival of Horus monsters from the GY into Level 8 Xyz and Link pressure, led by 3000 ATK bodies (Imsety, Horus, Lava Golem).; Hand-trap interaction (Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru, D.D. Crow) that stops opposing lines and buys time for the engine.
• Turn 1 (going first): Activate King's Sarcophagus or Walls of the Imperial Tomb, use Walls or Witch of the Black Forest to search a Horus monster, then use Sarcophagus to send a Horus from Deck to GY and revive Imsety, Duamutef or Qebehsenuef from the GY. Hold Droll and Canopic Protector as responses.
• Turn 2 (going second): Respond to the opponent's summon or search with Droll & Lock Bird, D.D. Crow or Nibiru. Use Canopic Protector to Special Summon a Horus monster from hand or GY in response, then establish the Sarcophagus loop.
• Recovery: Sarcophagus can repeat the Deck-to-GY Horus send each turn, so a monster in the GY keeps the revival loop running. Walls is a second enabler if Sarcophagus is removed, and Witch searches Duamutef.
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links is single-game and the list has no Side Deck (side_count 0).

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan at roughly 63 percent per opening hand, since 5 enablers (3 King's Sarcophagus, 2 Walls) are present and about 70 percent of hands hold at least one of the 6 Horus monsters. Its ceiling comes from the Sarcophagus loop, which sends Horus from Deck to GY and revives Level 8 engine monsters, feeding Xyz and Link pressure. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: 6 hand traps plus Canopic Protector and Powersink Stone give layered answers, and about 77 percent of going-second 6-card hands hold a hand trap. The score is held down by thin Horus density (exact-name purity 15 percent), Powersink Stone negating the deck's own monster effects, and Lava Golem needing an opposing board to summon. Popularity is not credited: the Horus archetype usage stats confirm the list is real, but they did not add points. Dimension scores were assigned to the system and not averaged from card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange, meta-neutral: D13 dropped and remaining weights renormalized over 95. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Engine conflict: Powersink Stone x3 (-3); Thin archetype density (-2); Conditional dead draw: Lava Golem x3 (-2); Redundant enabler set (2); Recovery via Sarcophagus loop (2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*62 + 0.20*60 = 61.6, then -3 modifiers = 58.6, rounded to 59

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.63 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.44 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.03 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Five enablers (3 King's Sarcophagus, 2 Walls) keep the revival engine redundant.
• Sarcophagus can send a Horus from Deck to GY, so the deck self-feeds the loop.
• Six hand traps plus Canopic Protector give layered response for going-second and mid-turn interaction.
• Extra Deck is fully used (9 of 9) with Level 8 Xyz and Link coverage, including Number 90 and Number 38 negation.
• Nine Level 8 main monsters supply Xyz and Link materials.

Weaknesses

• Only 6 Horus monsters; exact-name purity is 15.4 percent with 33 off-archetype copies.
• Powersink Stone x3 negates the deck's own monster effects as well as the opponent's.
• Lava Golem x3 needs the opponent to control 2 monsters to be Special Summoned.
• Dark Magician of Destruction and Dark Magical Curtain are conditional: DMoD needs a Spell activation and a banished Level 6+ DARK Spellcaster such as Imsety.
• Witch of the Black Forest can only search Duamutef (DEF 0) among Horus-related monsters.
• Fat 30-card main with 15 distinct cards limits flexibility.
• No Side Deck, so no post-game adaptation.

Critical choke points

• Losing all 5 enablers (3 King's Sarcophagus, 2 Walls) to field removal or negation before the GY loop starts.
• No Horus monster in hand or GY: the loop has nothing to revive, and Canopic Protector cannot respond.
• A single Sarcophagus on field is the only way to Special Summon Imsety, Duamutef or Qebehsenuef from the GY.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 30 main, 9 extra, 0 side; Bystial Druiswurm 2 of 2 Semi-Limited copies, legal in BanDuelLink.; Card text: King's Sarcophagus, Walls of the Imperial Tomb, Canopic Protector, Powersink Stone, Droll & Lock Bird, Witch of the Black Forest.; Usage stats: King's Sarcophagus 100 percent inclusion, Duamutef 96 percent, Imsety 92 percent; 8 of 20 core cards present.; Composition: 6 Horus monsters, 5 enablers, 6 hand traps, 9 Level 8 main monsters.
• Inferred: Hypergeometric estimates: enabler at least one ~0.63, Horus monster at least one ~0.70, full brick ~0.03.; Going-second hand-trap probability ~0.77 from the evidence group estimate.; Sarcophagus loop reading (Deck-to-GY Horus send, then revival from GY) and Powersink self-negation reading (semantic).; Dimension scores D1 through D11 and D14, as listed in dimension_evidence.
• Provisional: Meta power, matchup fit (D13) and metagame context: no dated sample or tournament link.; Side adaptability (D12): no Side Deck in Duel Links single-game 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 and brick rates are Inferred. Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample. Guide 1490 (Hướng dẫn chơi Horus) has an empty snippet and no section content, so no strategic intent is available from guides.