Horus Deck #769748 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±5 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Quintet Magician) reached through searcher-dense Charmer, Fairy Tail and Possessed lines; Horus engine via Imsety, Glory of Horus once King's Sarcophagus is on the field (only 3 exact Horus cards, so this is thin)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search and Normal Summon searchers (Spellbook Magician of Prophecy, Fairy Tail - Matchgiru, Familiar-Possessed - Dharc) to build a Charmer or Fairy Tail Link/Fusion route, holding Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler to protect the first starter
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom x2, Effect Veiler x3, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird) answer the opponent's first board, then the same searcher chains rebuild a board
• Recovery: Searchers (Spellbook of Secrets, Shining Sarcophagus, Fairy Tail Ball) and recursion from the GY (Familiar-Possessed Summons, Possessed Partnerships) rebuild after interruption
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck carries no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The 60-card Main reliably reaches searchers: the searcher-text group reaches at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand about 98.5% of the time (Inferred, from the hypergeometric estimate). Interaction is the deck's real strength: two Ash Blossom, three Effect Veiler, Maxx C and Droll & Lock Bird give seven hand-trap-style answers, which scores D5 and D7 well. The deck has no side plan and no recorded combos, so the combo ceiling and median are only text-based inferences and score in the low-to-mid 40s. The Horus core is thin (3 exact-name Horus cards, purity 4%, with the rest spread across Fairy Tail, Charmer, Spellbook, Possessed and Dark Magician), so popularity and archetype usage do not earn points here. The score was not produced by averaging card scores, and the illegal list caps the final result at 20 with a theoretical-only label.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: Structural 51 gives 0.80*51 + 0.20*40 = 48.8, then the banlist modifier (-12) gives 36.8; the Illegal rule caps the final at 20. Theoretical / structural-only result. Meta Power is null (provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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

• Searcher density: 33 searcher-text cards give near-certain access to a starter in a 5-card opening hand
• Seven hand-trap-style answers (Ash Blossom x2, Effect Veiler x3, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird) give layered interaction
• Strong closing Extra Deck threats (Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Quintet Magician)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three Forbidden cards (Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Cross-Sheep) are run
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan and no adaptability
• Very low archetype purity (4%): the Horus core is only 3 exact cards, so engine coherence depends on several sub-archetypes
• Main Deck at 60 cards with 21 level-0 cards and 25 singletons, which lowers consistency

Critical choke points

• Imsety's Special Summon needs King's Sarcophagus on the field; Sarcophagus is a single copy
• The Charmer / Familiar-Possessed Link and Fusion routes depend on specific Attribute and ATK conditions that cannot be checked without combos

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Three Forbidden cards are run (legal copies 0), so the list is illegal in OCG; Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0; sizes are within the OCG rules; Archetype purity 4% (3 exact Horus cards); core Hapi and S:P Little Knight are absent
• Inferred: Searcher-text access is near-certain for a 5-card opening hand (hypergeometric estimate); Interaction layering scores D7 well (text-based read of hand traps and negation); Combo ceiling and median are text-only estimates (no combos supplied)
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup / format fit (no tournament link, no dated metagame sample)
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck supplied, so post-side adaptability cannot be measured