Orcust Deck #772943 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz and Link boss monsters (Phantom Knights Break Sword, Raider's Knight, Dark Requiem / Arc Rebellion Xyz Dragon, Rusty Bardiche) built from the Phantom Knights and Orcust engines, with Mekk-Knight and Orcust Harp Horror as the extension; Ghost Belle and Ash Blossom hand traps plus Forbidden Crown / Droplet to strip the opponent's first interaction, then a board of Xyz/Link monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Phantom Knights or Girsu starter, extend through Phantom Knights search monsters and Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws, then Xyz or Link Summon a boss while holding Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence (text-based, Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand to hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru or Dominus Spark against the opponent's first summon and extend into a boss from the Extra Deck (text-based, Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover from the Graveyard through Phantom Knights banish-to-GY effects, Orcust Cymbal Skeleton and Orcust Harp Horror revival, and Launch/Requiem Rank-Up-Magic recursion (text-based, Inferred)
• After siding: Not available: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan to score

Why it scores here

This OCG Orcust list is scored as a connected system, not as an average of its 57 main-deck cards. Its engine is reliable on paper: 20 archetype-core copies give about 0.90 odds of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and the 15-slot Extra Deck offers several Xyz and Link bosses (Inferred). The deck's interaction density is high, with 23 negation-text and 33 removal-text cards, 12 hand traps, and Forbidden Crown/Droplet, which earns the strongest dimension score (D7 70, Inferred from text). Its weaknesses are structural: only 6.9% of its cards are exact Orcust cards, 67 of 72 archetype-tagged copies come from other sub-archetypes, and the list runs 0 side cards. No recorded boards exist, so the floor, median and ceiling rest on card text alone. The deck is illegal as built (3 copies each of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse, against a limit of 2), so it receives a capped theoretical score, and its popularity and usage stats were not counted as power.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); engine_conflicts (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*55 + 0.20*40 - 10 = 42.3; capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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 negation and hand-trap suite (23 negation-text, 12 hand traps) with Forbidden Crown and Droplet for board control
• Strong archetype-core access (~0.90 for at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand)
• Full 15-card Extra Deck with multiple Xyz and Link boss options

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: 3 copies each of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse exceed the OCG limit of 2
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan in a best-of-3 format
• Engine is cross-archetype (6.9% exact-name purity), which weakens combo coherence
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Legal fix of the two over-limit cards removes two negation copies, which reduces hand-trap density
• Dependence on Phantom Knights search and Xyz summons for the boss line, with no recorded backup route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies against an OCG limit of 2; Main 57, Extra 15, Side 0 against OCG size rules; Archetype purity 6.9% exact-name; 67 off-archetype copies
• Observed: Usage stats: Girsu, Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence are core cards in the archetype (inclusion 60-89%)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter, hand-trap and brick estimates; Interaction density and resilience read from card text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• 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/starter rates) Meta power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null; no side deck supplied