Horus Deck #773053 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• 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: Horus and Call of the Haunted Zombie boards converted through Imsety, Pumpking, Army of the Haunted and Undying Legion Xyz pressure (structural read only; no combo data supplied); Galaxy-Eyes / Number 38 / Vampire Xyz and link extenders as backup closers
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Call of the Haunted or a Zombie starter, use Hubrow / Stare / Pumpking to extend, protect with Infinite Impermanence and Evenly Matched (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand of hand traps (Ash, Droll, Ghost Ogre, Nibiru, Dominus) to slow the opponent's first board, then Zombie or Horus follow-up (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recurse Call of the Haunted and Zombie monsters from the GY via Army of the Haunted, Great Mammoth and Glow-Up Bloom (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0)

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal (Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2), so it is capped at 30 and scored as theoretical / structural only. Its strengths are the density of interaction (7 distinct hand traps and several destruction and negation spells, scoring D7 72) and a real Zombie / Call of the Haunted recursion engine that gives it resource recovery (D6 60). The Horus core is confirmed as a real, accessible build by usage statistics (Imsety 80%, Hapi 77%), but that popularity did not earn points on its own. Consistency is limited: a 25% chance of at least one Call of the Haunted starter in the opening 5, 55 Main Deck cards with 27 level-0 spells and traps, and no Side Deck (D12 20) pull D1, D2 and D10 down. No combos were supplied, so the ceiling and median (D3, D4) are text-only inference, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: Structural 52 = Σ(D×Midrange weight)/100; uncapped 0.80*52 + 0.20*38 + modifiers(-7) ≈ 42; Illegal cap applied, final = 30 (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

• Dense hand-trap and negation suite (Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched, Dominus Impulse, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Nibiru, Ash Blossom)
• Zombie / Call of the Haunted recursion gives a second line after an interruption
• Strong Extra Deck finishers (Imsety, Pumpking, Undying Legion) with several link and Xyz extenders

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two cards over their Semi-Limited copy limit
• No Side Deck at all, so no post-side adaptation
• Low exact archetype purity (5.7%) with several engines competing for slots
• No combo data supplied; ceiling and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Call of the Haunted (3 copies) is needed for most Zombie lines; P(>=1 in opening 5) ≈ 0.25
• Sarcophagus (2 copies) gates the Horus Special Summons of Imsety and Hapi; P(>=1 in opening 5) ≈ 0.18

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within the OCG size rules; Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2 (Illegal); Limited cards Droll, Foolish Burial, Harpie's Feather Duster and S:P Little Knight each at 1 copy (legal); Usage stats: Imsety 80%, Hapi 77%, Droll 67%
• Inferred: P(>=1 Call of the Haunted in opening 5) ≈ 0.25; Going-second hand-trap availability ≈ 0.84; Interaction density and recursion-based recovery read from card text; Structural 52 and final 30 derived from the dimension scores
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup (D13); Tournament reliability (38), with no tournament data
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null, and no side deck was supplied (Side Deck size 0)