Orcust Deck #770111 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Orcust Link and Xyz board pressure (Galatea, Longirsu, Enlilgirsu, Dingirsu) backed by Orcust recursion from the GY; ATK finish from Dark Magician of Destruction and The Zombie Vampire (Inferred from card text); Azamina Fusion pressure, which is unavailable as built because Azamina Ilia Silvia is Forbidden
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Orcust/Mekk-Knight starter or a searcher (Orcustrated Babel, Galatea-I, Girsu), then build a Link or Xyz board while holding Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence for the opponent's first activation (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Evenly Matched) to interrupt the opponent's starter, then convert the surviving board with Orcust Harp Horror or Diabellstar (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through Orcust Cymbal Skeleton and Orcust Knightmare from the GY, plus Orcustrated Babel and Pot of Sloth to refill the hand (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games in a best-of-3 (Verified)

Why it scores here

This deck is Illegal as built: three cards exceed their OCG copy limits and two Extra Deck monsters are Forbidden, so the score is a capped, theoretical structural read and not a normal final score. Its Orcust core is reasonably accessible, with about an 83% chance of at least one archetype core card in a 5-card opening (hypergeometric, Inferred), and 14 hand traps plus 10 searchers give it real interaction and recovery. The score is held back by low archetype purity (18.6% exact-name copies, 57 off-archetype cards), a dense 13-trap, 11-spell, 9-link Extra Deck that splits the engine, and no side deck to adapt. No combo boards, win rates or tournament data exist, so the combo and meta dimensions are text-inferred or provisional. The score comes from consistency, interaction, and resilience measured on the system; it is not an average of card scores, and Orcust's popularity earned no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); off_archetype_dilution (-2); no_combo_or_meta_data (-2). Final formula: Capped (Illegal): 0.80*Structural(49) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 47, then context modifiers -12 → 35; theoretical/structural only; Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · 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 package: 14 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards give several answers to the opponent's first play
• Orcust recursion (Knightmare, Cymbal Skeleton, Babel) and searchers (Babel, Galatea-I, Girsu) give some resource regeneration
• Strong Extra Deck ATK ceiling in Diabellstar, Dark Magician of Destruction, and The Zombie Vampire

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: 3 over-limit copies and 2 Forbidden Extra Deck cards
• Low archetype purity (18.6%); the engines do not share a single payoff line
• Split Extra Deck (9 Link, 4 Fusion, 2 Xyz) with no clear priority
• No side deck for best-of-3

Critical choke points

• Legal correction is mandatory before any production use: the Forbidden Extra cards cannot be played in OCG
• Orcustrated Babel and Galatea-I are the main searcher bridge; if they are missing the engine has few access routes (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 3 over-limit main copies and 2 Forbidden Extra Deck monsters; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; side is 0; Archetype purity 18.6%, 57 off-archetype copies; Core archetype inclusion list (52.6% present)
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency (0.83 core presence, 0.65 searcher); Interaction density and hand-trap timing; Recursion and recovery routes from card text; Going-first and going-second plans
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (D13); Tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck registered, so post-side adaptability cannot be measured no guides attached to the Orcust archetype