Horus Deck #770393 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Repeated Special Summons of 3000-ATK Horus monsters (Imsety, Horus the Black Flame Deity, Lava Golem) from the GY, enabled by King's Sarcophagus on the field.; Extra Deck Xyz/Link pressure (Number 90, Number 68, Dingirsu, World Gears) once the Horus board is established; the Extra Deck is mostly generic rather than Horus-specific.
• Turn 1 (going first): Set or search King's Sarcophagus (3 copies, P(at least one in a 5-card hand) = 0.43) or Walls of the Imperial Tomb as a searcher, then pivot into a Horus monster that can be Special Summoned from the GY.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's hand traps (Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler, Nibiru; P(at least one hand trap in 6) = 0.77) to stop the opponent's first summon, then rebuild the Horus GY-summon board.
• Recovery: Send Horus monsters to the GY with Sarcophagus and Imsety's effects, then Special Summon them back from the GY; Walls and Imsety supply searches to rebuild the Sarcophagus.
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links is a single-game format with no side deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens on its core: 19 Horus-core copies give a 0.997 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Verified legality, Inferred probability), but the engine itself rests on King's Sarcophagus, which is a single-card gate for GY Special Summons, so the consistency score is held at 62 rather than higher. The deck has several independent Horus starters (Imsety, Hapi, Duamutef, Qebehsenuef), which lifts interruption resilience and the going-second hand-trap plan. No recorded boards were supplied, so the conversion ceiling and median output are text-only inferences and are scored conservatively, with the median (D4) kept below the ceiling. Usage statistics confirm the list is a real, accessible Horus build (about half of the archetype-standard core is present), but popularity did not earn points, and the score does not come from averaging individual card scores. Meta Power is provisional because no dated metagame sample exists.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 57, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Unrecoverable choke point (-2); Off-archetype density (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*56 + 0.20*55 - 3 = 52.8, rounded to 53

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.43 · 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

• The Horus core is dense: 19 copies give a 0.997 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand.
• Several independent GY-summon starters (Imsety, Hapi, Duamutef, Qebehsenuef) add redundancy.
• Six hand traps (Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler, Nibiru, Canopic Protector) give a real going-second interaction plan.
• The main deck is compact (30 cards, within the 20 to 30 range) and the Extra Deck is fully used.

Weaknesses

• The engine depends on King's Sarcophagus, a 3-copy single gate.
• Only 20.5% exact Horus-name purity; 22 generic slots dilute the engine.
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unmeasured.
• Extra Deck is mostly generic (Number 90, Number 68, Dingirsu, World Gears), with few Horus-specific payoffs.

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus on the field is required for GY Special Summons of Imsety, Hapi, Duamutef and Qebehsenuef.
• Going first, the 5-card hand has only a 0.43 chance of containing a Sarcophagus, so the Walls searcher is needed.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 30 main, 9 extra, 0 side; within Duel Links size rules.; Coach King Giantrainer is Limited (1 copy, legal); Kiteroid and Photon Jumper are Semi-Limited (1 copy each, legal).; Card text for the Horus core and hand traps comes from the evidence excerpts.; Core inclusion rate: about half of the archetype-standard core (10 of 19) is present.
• Inferred: Consistency figures (0.43 Sarcophagus, 0.997 core, 0.77 hand trap) are hypergeometric estimates from the main deck.; Going-first and going-second plans and the Horus GY-summon engine reading are semantic reads of card text.; Interaction, offense, and pilotability scores are reasoned from card text, not from recorded boards.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample exists.; Matchup fit (D13) and tournament reliability are provisional; no archetype share or tournament link is present.; Side-deck adaptability (D12) is provisional because Duel Links has no side deck.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; the combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent. No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) exists in YGOVN. Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. The guide (id 1490) has an empty snippet and no section content.