Horus Deck #773440 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: duel-links

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Horus monsters (Horus the Black Flame Deity, Imsety, Duamutef, Hapi, Qebehsenuef) recurred from the GY through King's Sarcophagus into 2500-3000 ATK boards; Knightmare Phoenix, Knightmare Unicorn and the Xyz/Link closers in the Extra Deck
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Walls of the Imperial Tomb or Canopic Protector with King's Sarcophagus; Walls searches a Horus monster; Canopic Protector can Special Summon a Horus in response to an opponent activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (D.D. Crow, Nibiru, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird) to answer the opponent's first summon wave, then revive Horus monsters from the GY through King's Sarcophagus
• Recovery: King's Sarcophagus recycles Horus monsters from Deck to GY, and the Horus GY-summon effects rebuild the board after disruption
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no side deck; adaptation is limited to Extra Deck and hand-trap choices

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an engine: across its 8 enabler copies (Walls of the Imperial Tomb, Canopic Protector, King's Sarcophagus) the chance of at least one in an opening hand of 5 is about 0.82 (Inferred). Its recovery comes from King's Sarcophagus, which lets Horus monsters return from the Graveyard, and from six hand traps that give two independent interruption routes. Closing power comes from several 2500-3000 ATK monsters and Extra Deck Link and Xyz closers, while the Extra Deck is fully used. Popularity was not credited: archetype usage stats only confirm the core is real, and no combo boards were recorded, so the ceiling and median are text-based and the floor is unmeasured. The score comes from the deck's consistency, resilience and endboard on the system as a whole, not from averaging its individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 67, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: conditional threat (Lava Golem) (-1); engine dilution across sub-archetypes (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers (no dated meta, so Meta is provisional; Structural is meta-neutral, with D12 and D13 dropped and weights renormalized over 91): 0.80*61 + 0.20*58 - 4 = 56.4 -> 56

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · 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

• Two independent recovery routes: King's Sarcophagus GY revival plus six hand traps
• Stacked 9-search density (9 copies) lowers the chance of a dead opening hand
• Extra Deck fully used with Link and Xyz closers
• Core Horus cards run at or near their typical counts

Weaknesses

• King's Sarcophagus is run at 2 copies while its typical count is 3 (usage stat, Verified)
• Low exact-name purity (20.5%) suggests an engine spread across sub-archetypes
• No combo boards, so the floor and median are not measured
• Some Extra Deck slots (Dingirsu's Orcust route, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord) lack main-deck enablers

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus (2 copies): several Horus GY-summons require it on the field

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under BanDuelLink: 30 Main within 20-30, 9 Extra within 0-9, Photon Jumper Semi-Limited at 1 of 2; Copy counts and per-card hypergeometric odds from probabilities block; Usage stats: King's Sarcophagus 97.6% inclusion, typical 3 copies, runs 2
• Inferred: Engine accessibility ~0.82 for at least one enabler; Hand-trap interaction density and going-second hand-trap coverage; Structural and final scores built from the Midrange profile
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); D4 floor and median (no board data); D12 and D13 placeholders (no side deck in format; no tournament context)
• 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 Usage-statistics flag inconsistency: Number 90, Number 68, Dingirsu, Dark Magician of Destruction, Underworld Goddess and TY-PHON are marked in_this_deck=false and listed in missing_core, yet all six appear in the Extra Deck list. Core presence in any zone is therefore 17/20 (85%), not the reported 55%. Guide 1490 has an empty snippet and 0 sections, so no strategic intent could be read from guides Duel Links has no side deck, so D12 is not scoreable No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample