Orcust Deck #770319 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Xyz boss pressure (Dingirsu, Enlilgirsu, Longirsu, Zombie Vampire, Dark Magician of Destruction) built from Orcust Link and Mekk-Knight bodies; Gandora-G and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon as late-game boards once the GY is loaded with banished cards
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Girsu or Harp Horror with Cymbal Skeleton or Babel to reach a Link-2 Orcust (Galatea-I or Galatea) and extend into a 2500-2600 ATK Link or Xyz
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Lock Bird and Maxx C to stop the opponent's first Special Summon, then recover with GY-banish summons from Harp Horror and Cymbal Skeleton
• Recovery: Banish Orcust monsters from the GY (Harp Horror, Cymbal Skeleton, Knightmare) to re-summon and rebuild the board; Orcustrated Return and Mulcharmy Fuwalos add card flow
• After siding: None: the deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan in the list

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional Orcust engine: the archetype-core group has about a 99.9% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and Harp Horror and Girsu each run 3 copies. Conversion is good but text-only, since no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median come from card text and are marked Inferred. Interaction is broad (3 Ash Blossom, 2 Infinite Impermanence, 3 Dominus Impulse, 2 Dominus Spark, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Crescendo) and carries the Going-Second plan. Points are not earned for popularity: usage statistics show the list runs the archetype-standard core, which confirms it is real, not that it is strong. Scores come from consistency, floor and interaction on the system, not from averaging card scores; the deck is penalized for having no side deck and for a mixed sub-archetype pool (exact-name purity 23.6%).

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: primary Combo with secondary Midrange; Structural computed on the Combo profile only (no re-blend). Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-1); no_side_deck (-2); engine_conflicts (-1); engine_compactness (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*63.04 + 0.20*58 - 2 = 60.03

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype-core starter density (29 copies) gives near-certain opening access
• Broad interaction: 8 hand traps, 2 Dominus negation cards, Crescendo
• Extra Deck bosses with 2500-2800 ATK and Link recursion

Weaknesses

• No side deck: no post-side adaptability
• Mixed sub-archetype support lowers engine coherence (exact-name purity 23.6%)
• Limited copies (Maxx C, Foolish Burial, Crossout) are the main banlist exposure

Critical choke points

• Galatea-I or Galatea Link-2 access when the opponent clears the first board
• Hand-trap dependence for Going-Second turn-1 disruption

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; all copy limits respected (Maxx C 1, Foolish Burial 1, Crossout Designator 1, Droll and Lock Bird 2); Archetype spread and exact-name purity 23.6%; Orcust usage statistics show the archetype-standard core
• Inferred: P(>=1 core starter in hand5) = 0.9993; Consistency and brick estimates from hypergeometric draw odds; Interaction quality read from card text; Boss ATK ceiling and median output from text only
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN usage_statistics marks Galatea-I, Dingirsu, Longirsu, Enlilgirsu, Knightmare Phoenix, Knightmare Mermaid, I:P Masquerena, S:P Little Knight and Dark Magician of Destruction as in_this_deck=false, but the cards list shows them in the Extra zone; core_present_pct = 64 is understated and the missing_core list is wrong Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied