Orcust Deck #771615 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Tempo
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Orcust Link/Xyz boards (Girsu, Harp Horror, Dingirsu, Borrelsword, Dark Magician of Destruction) pressure through a hand-trap-protected board; the Orcust engine is the intended closer.; Draw-engine chip damage from Mulcharmy Fuwalos/Purulia on empty boards, and Gandora-G via Shining Sarcophagus.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Mulcharmy or Orcust starter, search via Babel/Galatea-I, build a Link board, and hold Solemn/Impulse/Ash for the opponent's first summon or activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Maxx C, Infinite Impermanence) plus Solemn/Dominus Impulse to stop the first board, then land a Link or Xyz from the Extra Deck.
• Recovery: Recurse Orcust monsters from the GY through Orcust Harp Horror, Orcust Cymbal Skeleton and Orcust Crescendo; Mulcharmy draws to refill the hand once the field is empty.
• After siding: Not available: the deck registers no side deck, so there is no post-side plan and no adaptation for best-of-3.

Why it scores here

This OCG Orcust list is scored on the system, not on its individual cards and not on the Orcust name. The core Orcust engine is reliably accessible: 22 copies of the archetype core give about 93% odds of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and Orcust Harp Horror and Girsu are each run 3 times. Interaction is layered: 9 hand traps, Solemn Judgment, Solemn Warning, Dominus Impulse and Ash Blossom together make the end-board hard to stop (Inferred from card text). Its weaknesses are structural. Mulcharmy draw-on-summon wants an empty field, Gozen Match and Rivalry of Warlords are floodgates that wipe the deck's own Link boards, and the list runs only 11 exact-name Orcust cards (15.7% exact-name purity). There is no combo evidence and no tournament data, so the ceiling and floor are text-only inferences. The list is also Illegal: Magicians' Souls and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon are Forbidden, so the score is capped at 30 and labelled theoretical/structural-only. Popularity did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange profile, primary; Toolbox weights not blended in. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); Engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap: min(0.80*Structural(58) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) + Modifiers(-12), 30) = min(44, 30) = 30; theoretical/structural-only (Meta provisional, null)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.07 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core Orcust engine is reliably accessible (about 93% for at least one core in hand 5)
• Layered interaction: 9 hand traps, 3 Solemn, Dominus Impulse, Ghost Ogre and Infinite Impermanence
• Strong Link and Xyz closers (Borrelsword, Dark Magician of Destruction, Dingirsu)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: two Forbidden cards
• Low exact-name purity (15.7%); off-archetype engines (Mulcharmy, Dominus, Shining Sarcophagus) dilute coherence
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Floodgates conflict with the deck's own boards

Critical choke points

• Single hand starter needed for turn 1 in a 55-card deck with 16 singleton slots
• Orcust Link-board continuity breaks if Gozen Match or Rivalry of Warlords is activated

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Magicians' Souls and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon are Forbidden in OCG and each has 1 copy run; Main 55 (within 40-60), Extra 15 (within 0-15), Side 0 (within 0-15); Composition, archetype purity and copy histogram from the evidence pack
• Inferred: Consistency estimate: P(>=1 core Orcust in 5 cards) ~0.93; Hand-trap coverage: P(>=1 hand trap in 6 cards going second) ~0.68; Semantic interaction read of hand traps and Solemn traps from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power null: no dated metagame sample supplied; Matchup and format fit (D13): no tournament link or dated meta data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference (combo data total combos 0) No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick/starter rates are Inferred or unknown usage statistics in this deck flags only count the main deck: Galatea, Galatea-I, S:P Little Knight and Enlilgirsu are present in the extra deck but shown as not in deck Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied