Horus Deck #768862 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 44/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Horus monsters (Imsety, Hapi, Qebehsenuef, Duamutef, Horus the Black Flame Deity) revived from the GY through King's Sarcophagus or Walls of the Imperial Tomb, backed by Extra Deck boss monsters; Winged Dragon of Ra line (Immortal Phoenix, Sphere Mode) and Extra Deck Xyz/Fusion bosses
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Sarcophagus or Walls, search a Horus monster, set up the Sarcophagus field, then revive Horus monsters from the GY into a boss and protect the board with Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle and Effect Veiler
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird) to stop the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Sarcophagus recursion and Horus revival
• Recovery: Recover Sarcophagus and Horus monsters from the GY and rebuild the board through Imsety and Duamutef draws, with Walls as a second searcher
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck plays the same 55 and 15 every game

Why it scores here

The deck's power comes from its system as a whole, not from averaging individual card scores. Its engine is the King's Sarcophagus and Walls of the Imperial Tomb pair, which revive Horus monsters from the GY, but only 3 Sarcophagus and 1 Walls give a 25% chance of a Sarcophagus-type starter in a 5-card opening hand, so the opening is unreliable (D1 48, Inferred). Interaction is the deck's strongest feature: 11 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards and 17 removal-text cards give a dense interaction layer that holds up after the opponent's first move (D7 75, Inferred). Archetype purity is only 10% (7 of 70 copies share the Horus name), with Egyptian God, Mulcharmy and Ghost support splitting the slots, which costs consistency and makes the engine conflict in places. No combo boards, guides or tournament data were supplied, so the floor, median and ceiling rest on text reads and are Inferred. Archetype popularity (Horus core present in 3 of 5 usage-core cards) confirms the list is real, but it earned no points by itself, and Meta Power is provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Stun secondary; the Stun profile is used for the interaction-heavy read only, not reweighted. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-1); zero_side_deck (-2); engine_conflicts (-3); hard_garnet_burden (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-8)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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: 11 hand traps, 13 negation-text and 17 removal-text cards
• Strong Extra Deck bosses at 3000+ ATK
• Recursion from the GY through Sarcophagus, Horus revival and Imsety
• Usage stats confirm the Horus core is run as expected (Imsety 3 copies, Hapi 1 copy)

Weaknesses

• Low starter reliability: only 3 Sarcophagus plus 1 Walls, about 25% to open with a Sarcophagus-type starter
• Low purity (10%) and split support across Egyptian God, Mulcharmy and Ghost lines
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Several Limited/Semi-Limited copies are single points of failure

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus (3 copies) is the engine enabler; without it most Horus monsters cannot be revived
• Walls of the Imperial Tomb is the only other Horus searcher, and it is a single card

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 55 main and 15 extra cards, with no violations and all Limited and Semi-Limited copies within limits; Card text and stats for all cards in the evidence pack; Archetype usage stats: Imsety 82.6%, Hapi 78.3%, Droll 65.2%
• Observed: No measured boards, win rates or matchup data are available for this deck
• Inferred: Starter reliability from hypergeometric odds (0.25 for Sarcophagus in 5); Interaction density and resilience from card-text reads; Going-first and going-second scores from hand-trap probability and card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13) from archetype context only
• 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 — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck registered, so D12 and any post-side plan rest on the absence of data