Horus Deck #773635 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, Blind-Second / OTK
• Format: duel-links

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Rank 8 Xyz beatdown built off the Horus/King's Sarcophagus engine (Number 90, Number 38, Dingirsu); Going-second resource denial via Lava Golem, Nibiru, Droll and Bystial, then close with Rank 8 bodies
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Walls of the Imperial Tomb / King's Sarcophagus to enable the Horus engine, summon Imsety to add the Sarcophagus enabler, then Xyz into Number 90 or Number 38 and set Canopic Protector / Infinite Impermanence
• Turn 2 (going second): Tribute away two monsters with Lava Golem, disrupt with Droll / D.D. Crow / Nibiru, then rebuild the Horus engine and pressure with Rank 8 bodies against 4000 LP
• Recovery: Horus monsters Special Summon themselves from the GY while King's Sarcophagus is on the field; Canopic Protector revives Horus from hand/GY and Imsety draws on opponent-driven removal
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (0 cards), so there is no constructed post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

Horus in Duel Links is a compact Rank 8 midrange engine: opening at least one of Imsety, King's Sarcophagus or Walls of the Imperial Tomb is roughly 86% in a five-card hand, and Walls itself searches on the Main Phase, so the deck usually becomes live by turn two. The payoff is a layered board of Number 90 / Number 38 negates, Dingirsu protection and a set Canopic Protector or Infinite Impermanence rather than a huge combo ceiling. A three-copy Lava Golem package plus Nibiru, Droll and D.D. Crow gives it a genuine going-second dimension that most pure setup decks lack, backing it against established boards. The main drags are consistency-to-brick variance from three Lava Golem copies that are dead going first, several one-of tech singles, and a completely absent Side Deck, so the score is held back on opening-hand quality and post-side adaptability. Note that popularity/usage share was NOT used to earn points, and the score reflects the system (enabler density + interaction layering + turn-order tension), not an average of the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 80/20 Midrange with Control flavor for weight selection. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 65, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: hard-garnet burden (-3); engine choke point (-2); compact core present (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.17 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Compact, real Horus engine that becomes live at ~86% in a five-card hand
• Layered interaction: Number 90 / Number 38 negates, Dingirsu protection, Canopic Protector and Impermanence
• Strong going-second tools in Lava Golem x3 plus Nibiru / Droll / D.D. Crow
• Horus monsters recur themselves from the GY under King's Sarcophagus, giving redundancy past single removal
• Coherent Rank 8 Extra Deck toolbox covering negate, protection, lockdown and removal

Weaknesses

• Three Lava Golem copies are dead going first, hurting opening-hand quality
• Several one-of tech singles (Soul Servant, Photon Jumper, Bystial) are thin payoff slots
• No Side Deck registered, so no constructed post-side adaptability
• Engine depends on resolving King's Sarcophagus / Walls to function
• No combo evidence supplied; median and ceiling are text-only inference

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus / Walls of the Imperial Tomb failing to resolve or being removed early
• Over-investing in Lava Golem going first and losing the tempo play
• Running out of Rank 8 material after the first Xyz if Sarcophagus recursion is cut off

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Legal: 30 Main / 9 Extra / 0 Side within Duel Links caps; Coach King Giantrainer is Limited (1 copy run); Bystial Druiswurm and Photon Jumper are Semi-Limited (1 copy run each); Card texts for all listed cards
• Observed: Nine-card Extra Deck composition and Rank 8 toolbox; Usage stats show Horus core inclusion is real and accessible (Imsety, King's Sarcophagus, Duamutef, Qebehsenuef)
• Inferred: ~86% chance to open an Imsety/Sarcophagus/Walls starter in five cards; Roughly 15-20% full-brick rate from Lava Golem and one-of singles; Median board of one Rank 8 plus one set interaction; Horus GY recursion gives resilience past a single disruption
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit unmeasured without a dated metagame sample
• 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 usage_statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with the resolved card list (cards shown as absent, e.g. Number 90, Dingirsu, Number 68, Dark Magician of Destruction, Underworld Goddess, Coach King, S:P, are actually present) — likely a matching bug, so core_present_pct understates the real build No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied