Horus Deck #773633 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Revive Horus monsters from the GY through King's Sarcophagus/Walls, then close with 3000-ATK bosses (Horus the Black Flame Deity, Imsety, Lava Golem) and Extra Deck Xyz/Link monsters.; Galaxy-Eyes Full Armor Photon Dragon (4000 ATK) when Number 90 is available as its material; Dark Magician of Destruction via Imsety banish during a Spell activation.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Sarcophagus or Walls and search or revive a Horus monster; keep Droll & Lock Bird or D.D. Crow for the opponent's first search. Lava Golem is not a T1 play without opponent monsters.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird, D.D. Crow, Canopic Protector or Powersink Stone to answer the opponent's board, then rebuild from the GY through Sarcophagus revivals and Horus boss monsters.
• Recovery: Walls and Imsety recover the Sarcophagus engine; GY revivals (Hapi, Duamutef, Qebehsenuef, Horus BFD) rebuild the board after a single answer.
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no side deck in this format.

Why it scores here

Horus reliably opens a live engine in the expected range: the five Sarcophagus-type copies (King's Sarcophagus x3, Walls of the Imperial Tomb x2) give P(>=1 in a 5-card opening) of about 0.63 (Inferred), and the 18-card archetype core gives P(>=1) of about 0.99, so a Horus monster to revive from the GY is usually present. The deck converts that plan into pressure through several 3000-ATK bosses (Horus the Black Flame Deity, Imsety, Lava Golem) and Extra Deck Xyz/Link finishers, and it survives interruption through Canopic Protector, Sarcophagus's protection from non-targeting destruction, and repeated GY revivals. Interaction comes from five hand-trap cards (Droll & Lock Bird, D.D. Crow) and negation text (Powersink Stone, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord, Underworld Goddess), with P(>=1 hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand) of about 0.70 (Inferred). The score does not come from Horus's popularity (usage stats only confirm the list is real) and was not built by averaging card scores; with no recorded boards or tournament data, floor, median and ceiling are semantic reads with limited certainty.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 57, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Single-card Extra dependency (-2); Banlist exposure (Limited card) (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*62 + 0.20*58 - 3 = 58.2, rounded to 58

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.63 · 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

• Compact three-copy engine core: King's Sarcophagus, Walls and Imsety give several ways to reach the same engine.
• Redundant GY revival routes (Hapi, Duamutef, Qebehsenuef, Horus BFD) after a single answer.
• Two hand traps at three and two copies (Droll & Lock Bird, D.D. Crow) give a strong going-second answer package.
• Boss monsters at 3000+ ATK plus Extra Deck finishers give real closing power.

Weaknesses

• Lava Golem (3 copies) is dead when the opponent has no monsters to tribute, which hurts going-first hands.
• No combo boards, tournament data or win-rate telemetry, so the floor and median are unmeasured.
• Super Starslayer TY-PHON needs two Level 12 materials, and the list has no Level 12 monster other than itself, so it is a conditional Extra slot.
• Exact-name archetype purity is only 20.5%, so engine coherence depends on generic and sub-archetype cards.

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus and Walls of the Imperial Tomb (5 copies in total) are the field engine; without them the GY revival lines do not start, although Walls and Imsety can search for them.
• Number 90: Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord is the only Galaxy-Eyes Xyz, so Galaxy-Eyes Full Armor Photon Dragon has one material route.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Duel Links: 30 Main (range 20-30), 9 Extra (range 0-9), 0 Side.; Copy counts and banlist status: Coach King Giantrainer Limited (1 run), Bystial Druiswurm and Photon Jumper Semi-Limited (1 run each).; Archetype core inclusion around 97% for the core list (usage statistics).
• Inferred: P(>=1 Sarcophagus/Walls starter in 5) ≈ 0.63 and P(>=1 hand trap in 6) ≈ 0.70 (hypergeometric).; Going-first Lava Golem brick risk.; Ceiling and interaction quality from card text only.; TY-PHON and Full Armor access depend on the listed levels and archetypes.
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample).; Matchup fit (D13) and tournament reliability.; Side-deck score (Duel Links has no side deck).
• 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 going-first/second, matchups, brick or starter rates. Guide evidence has one guide (id 1490) with an empty snippet and no sections. Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample.