Orcust Deck #773424 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Xyz boards built from Orcust, Fiendsmith and Mekk-Knight engines, closing with Enlilgirsu, Longirsu, Dingirsu and Fiendsmith's Lacrima; Niche routes only: D/D/D Wave High King Caesar (needs two Level 6 Fiends) and Snake-Eyes Doomed Dragon (no Snake-Eye monsters in the list)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a one-card starter from hand (Girsu, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Sengenjin, Fiendsmith Engraver, Fabled Lurrie, Golem), search or recycle through Sengenjin, Engraver and Babel, then Link into Galatea or Requiem and hold Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom and Droll for the opponent's response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 11 hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C) to stop the first board, then rebuild through Harp Horror, Cymbal Skeleton and Fuwalos
• Recovery: Harp Horror and Cymbal Skeleton special-summon from the GY, Fiendsmith Engraver recurs from the GY, and Orcustrated Babel and Crescendo return from the GY
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; this is a structural gap

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional starter: the computed probability of at least one hand-starter in a going-first 5-card hand is about 0.88 (Inferred). Its Link, Xyz and Fusion routes are supported by a large Extra Deck that can carry the game once the board is live. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: 11 hand traps and 12 negation-text cards give roughly 0.88 odds of at least one hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand (Inferred). Its weaknesses are that three Extra Deck slots (Snake-Eyes Doomed Dragon, Caesar and Knightmare Mermaid) lack their enablers in the Main Deck, that three engines (Orcust, Fiendsmith and Millennium) share a list with only 20% exact-name purity, and that there is no side deck. Score comes from consistency, median output and interaction judged on the whole system, not from Orcust's popularity or an average of card scores. No combos were supplied, so the ceiling and median are text-based inference.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Dead Extra Deck slots (-3); Engine dilution (-2); No side plan (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural 62.3, TR 58, modifiers -6 = 55.5 rounded to 55)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · 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

• Eleven hand traps and 12 negation-text cards give the deck a strong interaction layer
• Multiple independent starters keep the going-first opening reliable
• Link Extra Deck coverage gives closing power and recursion routes
• Archetype core (Orcust 26 copies) is stable and in line with usage data

Weaknesses

• Three Extra Deck slots are dead or near-dead without their enablers
• Multi-engine list with only 20% exact-name purity
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Hard to pilot across several engines

Critical choke points

• Orcust Harp Horror and Girsu as the main starters from hand
• Fiendsmith Engraver (two copies) as the only Level 6 Fiend supporting Caesar

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; all four restricted cards within legal copies; Copy histogram 14/4/6 and type/attribute composition match the list; Usage stats: Orcust core 26 copies, Maxx C, Ash Blossom and Girsu at 100% inclusion
• Inferred: Starter probability about 0.88 going-first and 0.92 going-second; Interaction quality from text (hand traps, negations, removal); Dead-slot analysis for Snake-Eyes Doomed Dragon, Caesar and Knightmare Mermaid; Ceiling and median from text only, since no combos exist
• Provisional: Meta power (null: no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament data); Side-deck score (no side deck registered)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; 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, going-second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck registered, so post-side is unscored