Orcust Deck #769273 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Orcust Link/Xyz boards: Dingirsu, Enlilgirsu and Longirsu (plus Girsu/Harp Horror recursion) built from a Level 8 and Link base (Inferred); Horus Level 8 beatdown (Imsety 3000 ATK, Hapi 2400 ATK) and Zombie Vampire via Level 8 materials (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search or draw an Orcust starter (Orcust Harp Horror, Girsu, Cymbal Skeleton), Special Summon an Orcust from the Deck, then link or Xyz into a 2500+ ATK boss (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 1 to 2 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, Droll and Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence) to blank the opponent's starter, then rebuild from the GY through Orcust recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Banish Orcust monsters from the GY for Special Summon (Harp Horror, Cymbal Skeleton, Knightmare) and recycle via Orcustrated Return and Orcustrated Babel (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan (Verified)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an Orcust starter often enough: the 15-copy archetype core has about a 0.91 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and the searcher text group about 0.77 (Inferred). Its nine hand traps and recursion through the Orcust GY monsters give it strong interruption resilience and going-second interaction, which is where most of its points come from. The Extra Deck is only partly supported: Dingirsu, Enlilgirsu and Longirsu have Orcust/Level 8 materials, but TY-PHON (needs two Level 12 monsters), Dark Paladin and Dark Magician of Destruction (need Dark Magician or Buster Blader) and Galaxy-Eyes (needs Photon materials) have no matching cards in the Main Deck, which lowers efficiency. Two cards are over their OCG copy limit (Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies, limit 2), so the deck is Illegal and its score is capped at 30 as a theoretical, structural-only read. Scores were built per system dimension and were not averaged from individual card scores; popularity was not counted as power.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59.6, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Banlist / copy-limit exposure (-8); No side deck (-2); Dead Extra Deck slots (-2); Illegal cap (-17). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*59.6 + 0.20*55 - 11 = 47.7; capped at 30 because status is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · 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

• Consistent Orcust core: 15 core copies give about a 0.91 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred)
• Strong interaction suite: 9 hand traps plus Droll and Lock Bird, Orcust Crescendo and Dominus Impulse (Verified card text)
• Recursion from the GY through Orcust monsters and Orcustrated Return/Babel (Inferred)
• High-ATK bosses at Link 3 and 4 and Xyz 8 (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse exceed the OCG copy limit of 2 (Verified)
• Low archetype purity: 25% exact-name Orcust copies, with many off-archetype staples (Verified)
• Several Extra Deck cards have no material support in the Main Deck (Inferred)
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability (Verified)
• No recorded combo or win-rate data, so the ceiling and median are unmeasured (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Starter Orcust monsters: if the opening hand has no Orcust monster, the Link/Xyz engine does not start (Inferred)
• Single Harp Horror/Girsu lines depend on GY banishes; interaction in the GY can cut the recursion (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Copy-limit violation: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies vs. 2 legal (OCG Semi-Limited); Main 41, Extra 15, Side 0 counts; 25% exact-name Orcust purity; 42 off-archetype copies; Card stats and text for all 41 Main and 15 Extra cards; No Dark Magician, Buster Blader, Photon or Level 12 monster in the Main Deck (checked against the card list)
• Inferred: Starter access ≈ 0.91 (core) and 0.77 (searcher) from hypergeometric draws; Going-second hand-trap coverage ≈ 0.80; Recursion and interaction density read from card text; Extra Deck dead slots (TY-PHON, Dark Paladin, Dark Magician of Destruction, Galaxy-Eyes)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format-fit scores (D13)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null, so the deck is identified by its id and archetype only