Horus Deck #772839 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 33/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Xyz boards built from Orcust Link monsters (Dingirsu, Orcustrion, Galatea-I) and Horus boss monsters (Imsety, Hapi) reached after hand-trap-protected turns; no recorded combo supports a specific win line.; Board pressure from 3000-ATK boss monsters (Imsety, Orcustrion, Borrelsword Dragon, The Zombie Vampire if present) once interaction has cleared the opponent's board.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Orcust recursion and searchers (Walls of the Imperial Tomb, Orcustrated Babel), set up King's Sarcophagus, then Link Summon Galatea-I or Galatea to reach Dingirsu; hold hand traps for the opponent's first activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler and Droll & Lock Bird to answer the opponent's first board, then use Imsety or Hapi from the GY through King's Sarcophagus.
• Recovery: Use Orcustrated Return and Orcust Cymbal Skeleton or Knightmare from the GY to rebuild Orcust material; Galatea-I and Orcustrated Babel return cards from GY to hand.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This deck does not earn a normal contextual score because it is illegal: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are each run three times against a Semi-Limited limit of two. Structurally it is a Midrange Horus/Orcust list with a heavy interaction suite (16 hand-trap-tagged cards and 19 negation-text cards), so its end-board interaction (D7 65) is its strongest point. Engine access is only moderate: the Orcust core group opens at about 41% in a five-card hand (Inferred), and Imsety and Hapi depend on King's Sarcophagus, a two-copy card. No recorded boards exist, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference and we did not average card scores. Popularity was not credited; the archetype usage stats confirm the list is real but not that it is strong. The score is capped low for the copy-limit violations and the missing combo, tournament and side-deck evidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange 80 / Stun 20 (for disclosure only; Stun weight not applied in the structural sum). Structural ≈ 46, Going First ≈ 38, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: illegal legality (copy-limit violations) (-10); banlist exposure (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 44.8, then illegal-deck modifiers -12 = 33

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.27 · 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 interaction suite: 16 hand-trap-tagged cards and 19 negation-text cards.
• Several independent Link and Xyz routes (Galatea x2, Galatea-I x2, Dingirsu x2) give some redundancy.
• Recursion lines (Orcustrated Return, Babel, Galatea-I) help recover resources.

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against a limit of 2.
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptability.
• Engine depends on King's Sarcophagus (2 copies) to unlock Imsety and Hapi from the GY.
• Low pure archetype density (6% exact-name purity), with 63 off-archetype copies.
• No recorded boards, tournament link, or guides to validate the combo or matchup picture.

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus x2 is the gate for the Horus boss route; without it, Imsety and Hapi cannot come back from the GY.
• Orcust Link monsters are the material base for Dingirsu and Orcustrion; the Orcust core group opens only about 41% of the time in a 5-card hand.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck is 52 cards and Extra Deck is 15, both within the OCG size rules.; Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against a legal limit of 2 (Semi-Limited).; Droll & Lock Bird, Foolish Burial, S:P Little Knight and Terraforming are each run once against a Limited limit of 1.; Imsety P(at least one in 5-card hand) = 0.27; archetype core group P(at least one) = 0.41.
• Observed: Archetype usage stats: Imsety in 80% of Horus lists, Hapi in 77%, Droll & Lock Bird in 67%; S:P Little Knight (83%) is absent here.
• Inferred: Interaction density is the deck's strongest dimension (D7 65), read from negation and hand-trap text.; Going-first and going-second power estimates from starter access and hand-trap density.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: there is no dated metagame sample and no tournament link.; Matchup fit (D13) is provisional.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied (combos_evidence.total_combos = 0): floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot records are absent. No guides for the Horus archetype. No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; brick, starter and matchup rates are Inferred. Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample. No Side Deck registered.