Orcust Deck #773397 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters: Dingirsu, Enlilgirsu, D/D/D Wave High King Caesar and Fiendsmith's Lacrima, reached through Orcust, Mekk-Knight and Fiendsmith link and summon chains; Board pressure from Orcust Link monsters and the Mulcharmy draw engine that punishes opponent summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Orcust Harp Horror or Girsu, use the Orcust GY banish effects and Orcust Cymbal Skeleton to reach a Link or Xyz boss, and keep Ash Blossom or Ghost Ogre up for the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C and Droll & Lock Bird as hand traps to blank the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Fiendsmith Engraver and the Orcust GY effects
• Recovery: Recover from the GY: Orcust Harp Horror, Orcust Cymbal Skeleton and Fiendsmith Engraver can each return to the field, and Orcustrated Babel and Galatea-I can re-search
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no side deck in this format (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The score comes from the deck as a system: the Orcust core (Harp Horror, Girsu, Cymbal Skeleton, Knightmare) appears in every copy-count bucket with high archetype core coverage (P of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand is about 0.99), and 10 hand traps plus 10 searchers keep the opening hand responsive on both going first and going second. Interruption resilience and recovery are real but unverified, since the GY banish and revive effects and the Galatea-I and Babel re-searches give multiple routes after a single disruption. Ceiling and median output are not measurable from the supplied data because no combos are recorded, so those scores are text-based inferences held close to neutral. The deck is an unfocused mash of Orcust, Fiendsmith, Mulcharmy and Mekk-Knight with only 20 percent exact-archetype purity, and several Extra Deck slots (Snake-Eyes Doomed Dragon, D/D/D Caesar, I:P Masquerena, Moon of the Closed Heaven) have weak or missing enablers, which holds the structural score down. Archetype popularity and the usage statistics confirm the list is real and accessible but earned no points on their own, and the score was not built by averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Combo secondary (about 80/20 by weight on the matching profile); weights from the Midrange row. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 65, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Engine conflicts (-3); Banlist exposure (-1); No side deck in format (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*61 + 0.20*58 - 4 = 56

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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 archetype core with hand traps for going second
• Multiple GY recursion routes, which give backup after one disruption
• Several boss extras with 2500 or more ATK

Weaknesses

• Purity is only 20 percent: three or four engines compete for the same slots
• Mulcharmy draw cards and several tech slots are dead on many hands
• Some Extra Deck slots (Snake-Eyes Doomed Dragon, D/D/D Caesar, I:P Masquerena) lack enablers in this list

Critical choke points

• Dependence on Orcust Link monsters for the boss routes (Galatea, Enlilgirsu, Longirsu are not all in the list)
• Single copies of Orcust Knightmare, World Crown and Orcustrated Babel mean one disruption can remove a key link

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal size and copy limits in Master Duel (40/15/0), all Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts within limit; Archetype core inclusion statistics for Orcust Harp Horror, Girsu, Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre; Card text for the Fiendsmith, Orcust and Mulcharmy engines; Snake-Eye and Illusion monsters are absent from the list
• Observed: Usage statistics show the core cards this list runs at the archetype-standard rate
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency about 0.99 for the archetype core group; Hand-trap coverage about 0.84 on going second; Going-first and going-second power estimates; Interruption resilience and recovery routes
• Provisional: Median output and floor, because no combos are recorded; Matchup and format fit, because no dated meta sample exists
• 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 — going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Master Duel has no side deck, so D12 has no post-side evidence