Horus Deck #767963 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Horus board presence: King's Sarcophagus recursion into Imsety, Glory of Horus (3000 ATK) and Hapi, Guidance of Horus (2400 ATK), backed by Orcust and Link pressure.; Orcust Link and Xyz pressure through Dingirsu, Galatea and Longirsu, if the Orcust lines connect.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Orcust or Mulcharmy starters and build Link monsters; hold Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre as interaction. Starter access is weak (about 0.25 per 3-copy card in a 5-card hand).
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand to present hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird) and Dominus Impulse to stop the opponent's summon, then convert through Horus or Orcust.
• Recovery: Recover through Imsety, Hapi and King's Sarcophagus from the GY, and Galatea-I's GY effect. Foolish Burial and Foolish Burial Goods help find pieces.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be assessed. Score is structural only.

Why it scores here

This list is illegal (3 copies each of Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse against a 2-copy OCG limit), so it is capped and scored as a structural-only read. The 5.6% exact-name archetype purity is low, and the deck spreads across Orcust, Mulcharmy, Mekk-Knight, Dominus, World Legacy, Forbidden and Cyclone cards, which weakens engine cohesion. Its strengths are interaction density (16 negation-text and 23 removal-text cards, 8 hand traps) and Extra Deck coverage across Link and Xyz routes, but none of this is tested against recorded boards. There are no combos, tournament results or side deck, so floor, median and ceiling remain text-only estimates. Score is not an average of card scores, and archetype popularity (usage core 3 of 5) earned no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 48.5, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit cap (-12); Banlist exposure (0); Engine conflict (0). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(48.5) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) = 47.2, minus modifiers (-12), then capped at 25 as a theoretical/structural-only score because the list is illegal. Meta Power is null (provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.39 · 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: 8 hand traps and 16 negation-text cards across several timings
• Extra Deck covers both Link and Xyz routes (11 Link, 4 Xyz)
• Multiple reusable Horus and Orcust GY-recursion effects

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 3 copies each of Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse exceed the OCG limit
• Low archetype purity (5.6% exact name) and 67 off-archetype copies weaken engine cohesion
• 25 level-0 spell/trap slots and tech cards raise brick risk
• No side deck registered; no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus (2 copies) is the sole enabler for the Horus Special Summon from the GY; losing it removes Imsety and Hapi access
• Starter access is about 0.25 per 3-copy card in 5 cards, so a turn-1 engine often needs several cards

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal: 3 copies each of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse vs OCG limit 2; Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within OCG size rules; Archetype exact-name purity 5.6%; Usage core present 3 of 5 (60%)
• Inferred: Starter access P(>=1 in 5) about 0.25 per 3-copy card, 0.385 for the archetype core group; Going-second hand-trap P(>=1 in 6) = 0.622; Interaction density from negation and removal text flags; Engine coherence scores from card text and archetype spread
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; Matchup fit (D13) is provisional without tournament data; Floor and median (D4) are text-only estimates without recorded boards
• 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 side deck registered: post-side plan cannot be assessed no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN: going-first, going-second and matchup rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied