Orcust Deck #772139 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 51 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Orcust Link and Xyz boards from the Extra Deck (Enlilgirsu, Dingirsu, Galatea, Longirsu-class threats present in the list), started by Orcust Harp Horror, Girsu and Mulcharmy Fuwalos; Super Starslayer TY-PHON, The Zombie Vampire and Dark Magician of Destruction as high-ATK Extra Deck finishers (Inferred, unverified without combo data)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Orcust starter (Harp Horror, Girsu or Mulcharmy), use the Orcust GY-banish effects to reach Link/Xyz summons, and protect the board with Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched, Maxx C and Droll & Lock Bird to answer the first summon, then rebuild through Orcust GY effects (Inferred from card text)
• Recovery: Orcust monsters recur from the GY (Harp Horror, Cymbal Skeleton, Knightmare) and Orcustrated Babel returns from the GY to hand (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal in OCG: Dimensional Barrier is run two copies against a limit of one, three Forbidden cards (Magicians' Souls, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Curious) are present, and the Extra Deck holds 17 cards against a 15-card maximum, so this is a structural-only read capped low and not a normal Final Contextual score. Within that cap, the Orcust core is reasonably accessible: the archetype core group (23 copies) gives about a 0.96 chance of at least one piece in a 5-card opening hand, though any single starter such as Harp Horror (3 copies) is only about 0.27. Interaction is dense (16 hand traps, 16 negation-text cards, 19 removal-text cards) and the Extra Deck has high-ATK finishers, but there is no recorded combo data, no guides and no side deck, so the floor, median and ceiling cannot be measured and the score rests on card text and probabilities. Popularity of the archetype and its usage statistics confirm that the list is real and accessible, but they did not add points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); extra_deck_over_limit (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap: min(0.80*Structural 51 + 0.20*TournamentReliability 40 + modifiers -12 = 37, theoretical cap 30) = 30; Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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 coverage (16 hand traps, 16 negation-text cards)
• Several Extra Deck finishers with 2600+ ATK
• Archetype core is well represented (13 of 13 core cards present in the expected range; 23 archetype-core copies)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Forbidden cards and a copy-limit breach
• Extra Deck over the size limit
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• No combo or guide evidence to verify conversion

Critical choke points

• Dependence on a few specific Orcust starters (Harp Horror, Girsu) that the GY-based recursion relies on
• Extra Deck legality: removing the Forbidden Extra cards also removes Link monsters that the engine may need

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal with four violations (banlist and copy limit); Main Deck 51 cards within the 40-60 range; Extra Deck 17 cards, exceeding the 15-card maximum; Archetype core group 23 copies and P(at least one in 5-card hand) 0.96; Extra Deck stats for Super Starslayer TY-PHON, The Zombie Vampire, Dingirsu and Dark Magician of Destruction
• Inferred: Midrange primary strategy with Combo secondary; Starter and recursion sequencing from card text; Interaction density from negation and removal text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated sample); Format fit and matchup coverage (no tournament data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta share and pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rate No side deck, so post-side adaptability is unmeasured Meta power is provisional without a dated metagame sample