Orcust Deck #773097 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Orcust Link and Xyz boss monsters (Dingirsu, Enlilgirsu, Super Starslayer TY-PHON, Underworld Goddess) closing from a board built by the Orcust GY-revival chain; Mulcharmy draw engine (Fuwalos, Purulia) grinding card advantage when the player controls no cards
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on the Orcust core (Harp Horror, Cymbal Skeleton, Knightmare and Girsu, with Orcustrated Babel for GY-activated Orcust effects) and use Galatea-I or Galatea to reach the Link boss; Pot of Sloth and Orcustrated Return supply draws
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with a high probability of at least one hand trap (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched, Dominus Impulse, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Warning, Solemn Judgment) to stop the opponent's first play, then Mulcharmy draws to recover
• Recovery: Rebuild from the GY using Orcust Harp Horror and Orcust Cymbal Skeleton special summons, Orcustrated Return to draw 2, and Galatea-I to search World Legacy or Orcustrated Babel
• After siding: None: the deck runs no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal as submitted: three cards run three copies where the OCG Semi-Limited limit is two, so it receives a capped, theoretical score and not a normal contextual result. The Orcust core is very reliable to touch (about 0.97 chance of at least one core card in a five-card opening hand, Inferred), and the Extra Deck gives four strong Link and Xyz bosses plus Galatea access. Interaction density is the deck's clearest strength, with roughly thirteen hand traps and several Spell/Trap negates, which lifts going-second play. Floor and median output are not measured: the export has no recorded boards, so combo ceiling and median are text-only inferences. Popularity and archetype usage were not used to add points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score; the Structural result is about 54 before the legality cap, which reduces the final to 30.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: illegal_copy_limit_cap (-22). Final formula: Illegal (Step 2): theoretical, structural-only. Uncapped 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) ≈ 52, capped to 30 because the deck exceeds copy limits on three cards. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.03 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction: about 13 hand traps plus several Spell/Trap negates and removal-text cards
• Four strong Link and Xyz bosses (2600–3000 ATK) with 12 Link and 3 Xyz Extra cards
• Orcust core has very high starter access (≈0.97 in a 5-card hand)
• Draw engines (Mulcharmy, Pot of Sloth, Pot of Prosperity, Orcustrated Return) supply grind

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: three cards exceed OCG copy limits
• Archetype purity is only 22.9%, spread across Dominus, Mulcharmy, Greed, Mekk-Knight and others, which dilutes the engine
• No Side Deck (Side Deck size 0): no post-side adaptability
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Orcust GY-revival and Galatea/Galatea-I chain depends on Orcust monsters being present in the GY or Deck, so early hand-trap stops can cut the line
• Most hand traps compete for the same hand slot, so going second with no hand trap leaves the player exposed

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: three cards at 3 copies exceed the OCG Semi-Limited limit of 2; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side 0; Card text, stats and banlist status from the evidence pack; Archetype core group copies (26) and usage stats for the Orcust archetype
• Observed: No recorded boards are available, so no observed combo frequencies exist
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand probabilities (≈0.97 core, ≈0.82 hand trap going second); Interaction density and hand-trap-driven going-second strength from card text; Dimension scores D1–D11 and D14 from composition and card text; Structural 54 and going-first/second estimates
• Provisional: Meta power and D13 matchup fit: no dated metagame sample; Tournament reliability (45) and matchup variance: no win-rate telemetry
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry for OCG: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Data inconsistency: usage statistics marks Galatea, Enlilgirsu, S:P Little Knight, I:P Masquerena and Longirsu as in this deck=false even though the Extra Deck list includes them; the usage in this deck flags for Extra cards are treated as unreliable deck.title is null, so no deck name is available