Orcust Deck #771528 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Hybrid Orcust/Phantom Knights Xyz-Link
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Xyz and Link beaters (Dark Requiem / Arc Rebellion Xyz Dragon at 3000 ATK, Raider's Knight, Enlilgirsu-type Link pressure) supported by Orcust and Phantom Knights recursion; Phantom Knights Rank-Up-Magic chains that re-summon Xyz monsters from the Extra Deck
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Mulcharmy or Phantom Knights searcher and a Girsu or Phantom Knights hand-revealed starter, then use Orcustrated Babel and Galatea-I to reach a Link board. Unverified: no combo evidence exists to confirm this route.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Dominus Spark, Nibiru) to disrupt the opponent's first summon, then rebuild with Mulcharmy draws and Pot of Sloth. Unverified against real boards.
• Recovery: Recycle Phantom Knights and Orcust monsters from the GY and banish zone via Mulcharmy draws, Orcust Harp Horror, and Orcust Cymbal Skeleton, then Xyz or Link Summon again from the Extra Deck.
• After siding: Not available. The deck has no Side Deck, so a best-of-3 plan cannot be evaluated; D12 is scored low for that reason.

Why it scores here

This list is an Illegal OCG build: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against a Semi-Limited cap of 2, so per the rubric it receives only a capped, theoretical structural read. Its structural profile (about 53) comes from a deep interaction suite (8 hand traps, 17 negation-text cards, 33 removal-text cards) and a reasonably reliable engine core, with the 86 percent archetype-core opening estimate (Inferred) and the Mulcharmy draw engine supporting going-second resilience. The main weakness is the system fit: exact-name Orcust purity is only 9.3 percent, the deck mixes Orcust and Phantom Knights engines with many off-theme staples, and a 60-card Main Deck dilutes both consistency and combo conversion. No combo boards, tournament link, guides, or post-side plan were supplied, so the ceiling and floor cannot be measured and the score was not derived from card popularity or an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary; 1:0.25 blend with 0 side deck. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: illegal_copy_limit_cap (-21). Final formula: Illegal deck: theoretical/structural-only. Structural 53 (Midrange profile) with Tournament Reliability 45; the normal 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TR formula gives about 51, which the Illegal rule caps to 30.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.14 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction suite: 8 hand traps and 17 negation-text cards
• Broad recursion and draw engines (Mulcharmy, Phantom Knights GY effects, Orcust Harp Horror)
• High-ATK Xyz and Link finishers in the Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts for Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Low exact-name Orcust purity (9.3 percent) with a split Orcust/Phantom Knights engine
• Oversized 60-card Main Deck diluting consistency

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Link starters such as S:P Little Knight and Galatea-I gate the Orcust Link route
• Heavy reliance on Phantom Knights Rank-Up-Magic to re-summon Xyz monsters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status and copy-limit violations (Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies vs Semi-Limited 2); Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0 counts; Archetype purity 9.3 percent and type/attribute spreads; Card text and stats for listed cards
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability 0.86 and brick estimate 0.14; Interaction density and resilience reads from text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup fit; Tournament Reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, or brick rates no Side Deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied