Orcust Deck #770372 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±9 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Orcust-field starters and Orcust/Knightmare/World Legacy links convert into 2600-3000 ATK bosses (Dingirsu, The Zombie Vampire, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction) that close the game; Gandora-G and Enlilgirsu take control or destroy boards once Shining Sarcophagus or Orcust links are online
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with an Orcust-field main-deck starter or Future Silence/Shining Sarcophagus to search an Orcust or Shining Sarcophagus card, then link into an Orcust Link Monster and recover Harp Horror from the GY
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand trap (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C, Dominus Impulse) on the opponent's first Special Summon or Spell, then rebuild the board through GY-based summons
• Recovery: Orcustrated Babel, Orcust Crescendo and Orcust Cymbal Skeleton recur from the GY; Magicians' Souls and Pot of Sloth refill the hand
• After siding: No side deck is registered (0 cards); no post-side plan is available, so D12 is scored low and labelled Provisional

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reasonably often: P(at least one of its 10 Orcust-named main-deck cards in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.78 (Inferred), and 11 searcher-text cards push P(at least one searcher in hand) to about 0.82 (Inferred). Its strongest dimension is interaction: 9 hand traps (P(at least one in a 6-card going-second hand) about 0.81) and 14 removal-text cards make it hard to establish a board uncontested, which earns D7 and D8. Conversion and median output are scored from text only because no recorded boards exist, so D3 and D4 carry low confidence and the ceiling is not used as the average. The Extra Deck of 15 singletons spans Orcust, Knightmare, World Legacy, Red-Eyes and Vampire sub-engines with only 20% exact-name purity, which costs consistency and pilotability. Popularity did not earn points: the Orcust usage stats confirm the list is a real, accessible build, and the score comes from the system's consistency, interaction and closing power rather than from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 70 Toolbox / 30 Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-4); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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

• Interaction density: 9 hand traps and 14 removal-text cards cover both going-first and going-second turns
• Closing power: multiple 2600-3000 ATK Extra Deck bosses
• Card economy: Pot of Sloth, Maxx C, Magicians' Souls and Babel recursion
• Legal list with all restricted cards within copy limits

Weaknesses

• Low exact-name purity (20%) means Orcust engines are diluted by several unrelated archetypes
• Only 7 Orcust-field main-deck cards (10 with Girsu) limit how often the core starts
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• High pilot load from GY-only activations and multi-step link paths

Critical choke points

• Orcust-field starter density in the main deck is low, so the opening hand often has no Orcust-field card
• Harp Horror and Cymbal Skeleton need a GY set-up, so early hand interaction is needed to protect the GY
• Gandora-G and Future Silence depend on Shining Sarcophagus being live

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 40 cards, Extra Deck 15, no violations; restricted cards within copy limits; Card text and stats resolved for all 38 distinct cards; Usage stats available for Orcust (32 rows)
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter and searcher probabilities (hypergeometric, Orcust-named cards); Engine accessibility, brick risk, interaction and going-second estimates from card text; Closing power from Extra Deck ATK values
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Side deck adaptability (no side deck)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference (D3 and D4 carry low confidence) No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) usage_statistics in_this_deck flags are false for 9 Extra Deck cards that are in the list (Galatea-I, Dingirsu, Knightmare Phoenix, Knightmare Mermaid, Enlilgirsu, I:P Masquerena, Longirsu, S:P Little Knight, Dark Magician of Destruction); the join appears to ignore the Extra zone, so core_present_pct is understated. Only Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Crossout Designator are truly absent. archetype_core_group copies_in_deck=25 cannot be reproduced from the card list and was not used Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied