Orcust Deck #770365 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link/XYZ boss pressure from Dingirsu, Enlilgirsu and Longirsu, reached through Orcust summon chains (Harp Horror, Cymbal Skeleton, Girsu) feeding Galatea and Mekk-Knight links; Hand-trap-protected board breaking and grind via Mulcharmy draw engines and Maxx C
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Orcust starter (Harp Horror or Cymbal Skeleton from GY banish) into a Girsu or Galatea link line, protected by Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle and Ghost Ogre against the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild the Orcust link line from the GY
• Recovery: Recurse Orcust monsters from GY and banish via Harp Horror, Cymbal Skeleton and Orcustrated Babel, and draw through Mulcharmy and Maxx C
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no side deck in this export (Side Deck size 0), so post-side adaptability is scored neutral and Provisional

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its Orcust engine: the core group of 27 copies has a near-certain opening presence (p approx 0.998, Inferred), and several independent starters (Harp Horror, Cymbal Skeleton, Girsu) keep T1 lines from depending on a single card. Interaction is the system's strongest trait: ten hand traps plus Infinite Impermanence, Crescendo, Dominus Impulse and NT8000 give layered answers that hold up well when going second (p of at least one hand trap in a six-card hand approx 0.85, Inferred). Conversion is credible but unverified, since no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling (Dingirsu, Enlilgirsu, Longirsu boss lines) is scored from card text and not from observed output, and the median is held down accordingly. Popularity did not earn points: the Orcust archetype is widely played, but the score rests on consistency, interaction and resilience measured on this list, and no card scores were averaged. The main-deck engine conflicts (Mulcharmy, Sky Striker and Dominus cover about 40 percent of the 40-card main, with exact-name purity at 27.3 percent) cost a small modifier.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Control secondary (about 80/20 by weight, disclosed as a judgment). Structural ≈ 64.7, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*64.7 + 0.20*62 = 64.2, then -2 modifier = 62

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

• Consistent Orcust core with several independent starters
• Dense, layered hand-trap and negation coverage that works going second
• Full, flexible Extra Deck with multiple link and XYZ boss options

Weaknesses

• Off-archetype copies (Mulcharmy, Sky Striker, Dominus) compete with the Orcust core
• High pilot demand from multi-step link chains and hand-trap timing
• No recorded combos or tournament data to confirm the ceiling

Critical choke points

• Reaching the first Orcust link line depends on one or two starter cards in hand; loss of Harp Horror and Cymbal Skeleton to hand traps slows the whole line
• Single-copy Limited cards (Foolish Burial, Maxx C, Sky Striker Mecha - Hornet Drones, Crossout Designator, Foolish Burial Goods) are key consistency pieces that cannot be duplicated

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side, Master Duel size rules satisfied; Five Limited cards each run at one legal copy; Ten hand traps and thirteen negation-text cards counted from card text; Archetype core: 27 copies with exact-name purity 27.3 percent
• Observed: Usage statistics show the archetype core and most cards in this list appear in a high share of archetype decks
• Inferred: Opening core presence approx 0.998 (proxy from hypergeometric estimate); Going-second hand-trap presence approx 0.85; Interaction quality and resilience from card text and structure; Ceiling and median from card text only, with no recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and side-deck adaptability (no post-side or matchup data)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups, brick or starter rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null in the export