Horus Deck #771233 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Blind-Second/OTK
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Horus Xyz/Extra-Deck pressure after a Ryzeal or Horus board is established, with Galaxy-Eyes Full Armor Photon Dragon, Draglubion, Tachyon Dragon and Ryzeal Detonator as the closers; Ryzeal Cross and Ryzeal Plugin recursion of Xyz monsters from GY/banish into repeated boards
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with hand traps and tech (Ash, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence) to protect the first Horus or Ryzeal starter, then stack King's Sarcophagus and a Horus Xyz (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 2 to 3 hand traps and Dark Ruler No More or Heavy Slump to disrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through GY-summoned Horus monsters and an Xyz (Inferred)
• Recovery: Walls of the Imperial Tomb and the Horus GY-revive effects (Hapi, Qebehsenuef, Duamutef) rebuild after a single removal or negation (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This OCG list is rated as a structural, theoretical read only, because it is illegal: three cards exceed their copy limits (Ash Blossom at 3 versus 2, Ice Ryzeal and Sword Ryzeal at 2 versus 1), so it is capped at 30 rather than receiving a normal contextual score. Its Structural read (about 44) reflects a hand-trap-heavy Toolbox shell with a strong end-board of 3000 to 4000 ATK Xyz monsters, but the Horus engine is thin: only 9 of 55 main-deck copies are exact Horus names and 61 copies are off-archetype, so starter access is inconsistent (P of at least one Imsety in a 5-card hand is about 0.25). Interaction is the strongest part of the system, with 18 hand traps and 17 negation and 17 removal text hits, and the going-second hand-trap density (about 0.92 of at least one in six cards) supports that side of the board. No combo lines were parseable, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences, and the popularity signal (Horus core cards present at 40 percent) was not used to add points. Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample exists.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 44, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); off_archetype_dilution (-4); no Side Deck (-2). Final formula: Uncapped 0.80*Structural(44) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) + Modifiers(-12) = 30; Illegal cap applied, theoretical/structural-only (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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 hand-trap and negation suite (18 hand traps, 17 negation texts) that protects the board on both turns
• High-power Extra Deck closers (Galaxy-Eyes Full Armor 4000 ATK; Draglubion, Tachyon Dragon and Detonator at 3000 ATK)
• Going-second hand-trap coverage is strong (about 0.92 of at least one in six cards)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts on three cards (Ash Blossom 3 vs 2; Ice Ryzeal and Sword Ryzeal 2 vs 1)
• Low exact-archetype purity (12.9 percent): Horus starters are only 9 copies and the deck is spread across at least 8 archetypes
• No Side Deck (0 cards), so no adaptation plan
• Starter reliability is low (about 0.25 for Imsety in a 5-card hand)

Critical choke points

• Horus starters (Imsety, Hapi, Qebehsenuef, Duamutef) are each under 3 copies, so one bad opening hand can miss the engine
• King's Sarcophagus is the single enabler for every Horus GY-revive line (2 copies)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Copy-limit violations for Ash Blossom, Ice Ryzeal and Sword Ryzeal (legality); 55 main, 15 Extra, 0 side counts vs OCG size rules; Banlist status of Ice Ryzeal, Sword Ryzeal, Ext Ryzeal and Ryzeal Detonator as Limited; Ash Blossom as Semi-Limited; Card text read from excerpts for role tags (hand trap, negation, removal, searcher)
• Inferred: Starter probabilities from hypergeometric draw odds (Imsety P about 0.25 at 5 cards; going-second hand-trap P about 0.92); Going-first and going-second plans and the recovery plan are read from card text; Interaction and resilience scores are read from text and role counts, not from recorded games
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13) and tournament reliability
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null in the export