Horus Deck #765972 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 46/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: King's Sarcophagus / Walls enable GY revives of Horus monsters (Imsety, Horus the Black Flame Deity, Duamutef, Hapi, Qebehsenuef) into 3000-ATK boards, closed by Level 8 Xyz finishers; Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon via Hyper Galaxy or Galactikuriboh, with Number 90 / Dragluxion as Galaxy-line finishers
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with King's Sarcophagus or Walls (both enable the GY revive), search or draw a Horus monster, send it to the GY, then revive it and build a Level 8 Xyz from two Level 8 monsters
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Canopic Protector, Galactikuriboh and Photon Jumper as in-response plays against the opponent's first play or attack, then revive Horus monsters from the GY once the enabler survives
• Recovery: Imsety and Duamutef revive from the GY while King's Sarcophagus is face-up; Soul Servant draws from the GY; Walls re-searches a Horus monster
• After siding: None. Duel Links has no side deck, so there is no post-side plan to score

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an enabler: King's Sarcophagus or Walls is in the opening hand about 70% of the time going first and about 77% going second (hypergeometric, Inferred), and that enabler is what lets the Horus GY revives run. It converts that plan into 3000-ATK boards and several Level 8 Xyz finishers, and it keeps some in-response interaction (Canopic Protector, Galactikuriboh, Photon Jumper, Photon Lord and Number 38 negation text). Its weak points are consistency and recovery: the engine needs two cards to line up, only 8 of 30 main cards are exact Horus names (20.5% exact-name purity), and several singletons and conditional bodies (Lava Golem, Tachyon Spiral Galaxy) are often dead in hand. The score comes from the system's consistency, median output and interaction; it does not come from Horus being a popular archetype, and it is not an average of card scores. Duel Links has no side deck, so the post-side axis is scored at the floor.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox primary (singleton-heavy, mixed-theme list); Midrange used as secondary context, not blended numerically. Structural ≈ 54.2, Going First ≈ 54, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-4); conditional bodies and bricks (-2); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.7 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.55 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Two-card enabler access (King's Sarcophagus and Walls, 6 copies) with a Horus searcher
• Recursion through GY revives (Imsety, Duamutef, Hapi, Qebehsenuef) and Soul Servant
• Strong 3000-ATK bodies and Level 8 Xyz coverage
• Several in-response options (Canopic Protector, Galactikuriboh, Photon Jumper, Number 38 negate)

Weaknesses

• Only 20.5% exact-name Horus purity; engine coherence is split across several sub-themes
• Lava Golem (3) and Tachyon Spiral Galaxy (1) are conditional and frequently dead in hand
• TY-PHON Sky Crisis needs two Level 12 monsters, and none are in the deck, so it is effectively unusable
• Dark Magician of Destruction's alternate route needs a Level 6+ DARK Spellcaster (Imsety) and a spell activation that turn
• No combo data, no tournament data and no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus / Walls (6 copies) as the only enabler for Horus revives; about 30% of going-first openers have neither
• Level 8 monster count (12 in Main) for every Level 8 Xyz route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 30 main, 9 extra, 0 side, Legal under duel-links size rules; Restricted cards: Dragluxion Limited (1/1), Photon Jumper Semi-Limited (1/2); Exact-name Horus purity 20.5% (8 of 39 copies); Copy histogram 9 singles, 3 doubles, 5 triples in Main; Usage stats: 17 of 20 core cards are present in Main or Extra; missing Underworld Goddess, Coach King Giantrainer and Knightmare Phoenix
• Observed: Usage-standard core inclusion for King's Sarcophagus (100%) and Qebehsenuef (100%) match the deck's copies
• Inferred: Hypergeometric enabler odds: about 0.70 going first and 0.77 going second; Joint enabler plus Horus in opener about 0.55; Lava Golem brick risk; TY-PHON unusable with no Level 12 monsters; Dark Magician of Destruction conditional route via Imsety banish; Duel Links Xyz routes all draw from the same 12 Level 8 Mains
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample, no tournament link); Going-first versus going-second split (no win-rate telemetry)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Export bug: usage_statistics in_this_deck is false for Extra-Deck cards that are in the Extra list (Dingirsu, Photon Lord, Sanaphond, S:P Little Knight, Dark Magician of Destruction, TY-PHON). Their missing_core status was treated as an export artifact, not a real absence Excerpts are truncated (Walls, Imsety, Dragluxion, Tachyon), so full effect text is unverified Export tags Galactikuriboh and Canopic Protector as not hand-trap; Galactikuriboh's discard-from-hand response is hand-trap-like (Inferred) Duel Links has no side deck, so D12 has no post-side evidence