Horus Deck #773438 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Stun
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Revive Horus monsters from the GY with King's Sarcophagus and Imsety, then pressure with 3000-ATK Horus bodies backed by Extra Deck Xyz/Link threats.; Hand-trap lock (Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) that stalls the opponent while the Sarcophagus engine rebuilds the board.
• Turn 1 (going first): Set up King's Sarcophagus (or Walls of the Imperial Tomb as a second copy) on T1, search a Horus monster, and convert through Imsety, Lava Golem or Horus the Black Flame Deity.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Droll & Lock Bird or Nibiru to disrupt the opponent's first summon chain, then rebuild the board from the GY through Sarcophagus revivals.
• Recovery: Reload from the GY: Imsety, Duamutef, Hapi and Qebehsenuef can each be Special Summoned from the GY while Sarcophagus is face-up, and Walls can re-add a Horus monster.
• After siding: No side deck is run (0 side cards); no post-side plan exists in the evidence.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens into its Horus engine about 43% of the time from a 5-card hand for a single King's Sarcophagus (3 copies), with Walls and Imsety adding searcher redundancy (at least one searcher in hand 5 is about 70%). Its conversion ceiling comes from Sarcophagus-enabled GY revivals into 3000-ATK boards, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median scores are inferred from card text alone and kept modest. Going-second resilience is supported by five hand traps (Droll & Lock Bird x3, Nibiru x2), with at least one in a 6-card hand about 70% of the time. Popularity of the Horus archetype (the 97% inclusion of King's Sarcophagus) did not earn points, and the 14 dimension scores were not averaged from individual card scores. Weak points are archetype purity (7 exact Horus copies, 32 off-archetype), zero side deck, and no measured win data.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: engine conflicts / archetype purity (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*56.12 + 0.20*52 - 2 = 53.3

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.43 · 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

• King's Sarcophagus x3 plus Walls x2 give a redundant revival engine
• Five hand traps (Droll & Lock Bird x3, Nibiru x2) give going-second interaction
• Full Extra Deck of Xyz, Link and Fusion threats with strong 3000-ATK bodies
• Legal list: all restricted cards (Coach King, Druiswurm, Photon Jumper) run within their legal copy limits

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median are text-based inference
• Only 7 exact Horus cards; 32 off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• Four Mulcharmy cards conflict with a board-building plan
• Zero side deck, so no post-side plan
• Usage-stat core matching misses Extra Deck core cards that the card list shows as present

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus must be on the field for most GY revivals; only 3 copies plus 2 Walls
• Lava Golem and Imsety need a monster-control or GY setup before they convert
• Hand traps are dead without a matching opponent action

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Legal under BanDuelLink; 30 main, 9 extra, 0 side within size rules; Restricted cards Coach King (Limited, 1 run), Druiswurm and Photon Jumper (Semi-Limited, 1 run each) are within legal copies; Copy histogram and card text for all distinct cards; Exact Horus purity 17.9% and archetype spread from composition
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter, searcher and hand-trap probabilities; Engine accessibility, brick risk, resilience and going-second scores from card text; Ceiling scores from text, not from boards
• Provisional: Meta and matchup fit (D13) with no dated metagame sample; Side deck and post-side scores (D12), since no side deck is run
• 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 win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates) Usage-stat inconsistency: Extra Deck cards shown in cards[] (Number 68 Sanaphond x2, Number 90 Galaxy-Eyes, Coach King, Dingirsu, S:P Little Knight, Underworld Goddess, Dark Magician of Destruction) are reported in this deck=false in usage statistics.core cards, so core-card presence of 55% understates coverage; the card list was trusted over the usage match Deck title is null Meta Power is Provisional