Horus Deck #765971 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 52/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Revive Horus monsters (Imsety, Hapi, Duamutef, Qebehsenuef, Horus the Black Flame Deity) through King's Sarcophagus and convert the board into 3000-ATK pressure (Inferred from card text).; Extra-Deck Xyz/Link pressure: Number 90 Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord (needs a Photon material), Underworld Goddess of the Closed World (negation), Number 38 (negation) (Inferred from card text; the deck list holds these in the Extra Deck).
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Sarcophagus or Walls of the Imperial Tomb, use Walls to search a Horus monster, and build the field so Horus monsters can be revived from the GY (Inferred; no recorded boards).
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the five hand traps (D.D. Crow, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru, Canopic Protector, Bystial Druiswurm) to break the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through Sarcophagus revivals (Inferred).
• Recovery: Recursion via Sarcophagus GY summons and Imsety/Hapi/Duamutef GY revival, plus Walls search to rebuild the engine after a clear (Inferred).
• After siding: None: Duel Links has no side deck in this export (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Horus engine when Sarcophagus or Walls of the Imperial Tomb is present; hypergeometric odds of at least one of the six enablers in an opening hand of five are about 0.70 (Inferred), so the engine is accessible but not guaranteed. Conversion is scored from the card text and the Horus revival loop, not from recorded boards, because the evidence contains no combos. Interaction is the strongest area: five hand traps, a negation-capable Extra Deck (Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord, Number 38, Underworld Goddess) and removal text give broad coverage. The score is held down by low exact-archetype purity (about 20.5%), no post-side plan in Duel Links, and an unmeasured median output. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage stats confirm the list is real, not that it is strong, and the card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: engine conflicts / low exact purity (-3); weak post-side plan (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; D13 dropped and weights re-normalized for Structural)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.7 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.3 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Compact enabler set: Sarcophagus and Walls give six enabler copies, so the engine is accessible in most games.
• Five hand traps and negation text give strong going-second interaction.
• Multiple Extra-Deck boards (Underworld Goddess, Number 38, Galaxy-Eyes) add end-board interaction and pressure.
• Revival loop from the GY gives recursion after a single interruption.

Weaknesses

• Exact-archetype purity is 20.5%, so many slots are off-engine and dilute consistency.
• No recorded combos, so the median and floor are unmeasured.
• No side deck in Duel Links, so there is no post-side adaptation.
• Several Extra-Deck cards need specific material (Photon Jumper for Galaxy-Eyes), which narrows the routes.

Critical choke points

• Sarcophagus and Walls: a single enabler line depends on at least one of six copies in hand.
• Photon Jumper: one copy is the only Photon material for Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 inside the Duel Links size rules; no copy-limit violations.; Coach King Giantrainer (Limited, 1 legal, 1 run), Bystial Druiswurm and Photon Jumper (Semi-Limited, 2 legal, 1 run) are within limits.; Exact-archetype purity 20.5% (8 of 39 Horus-named copies).
• Observed: Archetype usage stats show Sarcophagus, Imsety and Walls among the core cards (usage data, not this deck's results).
• Inferred: P(≥1 enabler in opening 5) ≈ 0.70 from the hypergeometric table.; Revival loop and hand-trap coverage read from card text.; Midrange strategy label from composition and card text.
• Provisional: Tournament reliability and matchup fit: no tournament link and no dated meta sample.; Meta Power is null.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. usage_statistics.in_this_deck marks several Extra-Deck cards as absent (Number 90, Number 68, Underworld Goddess, Dark Magician of Destruction, Dingirsu, Coach King) although the cards array lists them in the Extra Deck; core_present_pct and missing_core are unreliable and were not used. No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent. No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates. Guide evidence is empty (snippet is a blank entity; 0 sections). Deck title is null. Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample.