Horus Deck #772990 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Horus engine: King's Sarcophagus recursion of Imsety, Hapi, Qebehsenuef and Duamutef, converting into Extra-Deck boards such as Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X Dragon and Galaxy-Eyes Full Armor Photon Dragon; Destiny HERO boards (Dogma, Destro-Dogma, Destiny End Dragoon) and Xyz beatsticks from the Kaiju and Cipher lines
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Sarcophagus or a Kaiju monster, set up a hand-trap-protected board, and hold Solemn and Ash Blossom for the opponent's first turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Infinite Impermanence) to break the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through the Horus graveyard recursion
• Recovery: Discard-based recovery via Trade-In and Imsety's hand-to-GY cost, then re-fill the board from the GY through King's Sarcophagus
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

This deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards, and it is capped low because it is illegal: a single Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon in the Extra Deck is Forbidden in OCG. Its engine is split across Horus (9 cards including King's Sarcophagus), Kaiju (9 cards), Destiny HERO, Cipher, Utopia and True Draco, so the starter probability of about 0.25 for the Sarcophagus in a going-first hand reflects weak consistency rather than a dependable opener. The strongest part is the interaction suite (7 hand traps, Solemn Judgment, Solemn Warning, Ash Blossom, Lightning Storm and Forbidden Droplet), which gives a broad end-board and a credible going-second plan. Offensive closing power is real (4000-ATK Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X and Full Armor Photon, 3400-ATK Destiny HERO Dogma and Destro-Dogma), but it does not offset a scattered engine and the absence of a Side Deck. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points: only 3 of the 6 core cards are present, and no combo or tournament evidence exists. (Inferred, Low confidence.)

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 45, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-9); no Side Deck (-3); illegal_cap (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: Final = 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*45 + 0.20*35 - 12 = 31, then capped at 25 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Layered interaction: 7 hand traps plus Solemn and Ash Blossom with negation text on most cards
• Multiple 3000+ ATK Extra-Deck boards with recursion routes
• Horus graveyard recursion gives some resilience after a single interruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon is Forbidden
• Three competing engines (Horus, Kaiju, Destiny HERO) with low cross-synergy and only 8.6% exact-archetype purity
• No side deck
• No combo or tournament evidence to validate any line

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus must be drawn or recovered for the Horus engine; about 25% of opening hands contain one
• The Extra Deck must be castable without Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon before any board line is real

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon is Forbidden and in the Extra Deck, so the list is Illegal; Main 55 and Extra 15 are inside the OCG size rules; Side is 0; Exact archetype purity is 8.6% (6 of 70 archetype-tagged copies); Hand-trap count is 7 and removal/negation text counts are 20 and 15; Probability table values (0.2529 for 3 copies in hand5, 0.3909 for the Horus core)
• Inferred: Consistency estimates for D1/D2 from hypergeometric odds and engine split; Interaction quality (D7) from card text and role flags; Closing power (D9) from Extra-Deck ATK stats plus text; Going-first and going-second plan readings from the card text
• Provisional: Meta-share and matchup fit (D13) because no dated metagame sample or tournament link exists
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no Side Deck registered; post-side adaptability cannot be measured no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; brick and starter rates are Inferred only Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null; the evaluation uses the deck id and archetype only