Horus Deck #773637 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Out-resource the opponent with Horus/King's Sarcophagus recursion, rank 8 Xyz interaction, and trap/floodgate pressure.; Use Lava Golem and Kaiju tributes to break established boards, then convert with 3000 ATK Horus bodies and rank 8 Xyz.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open King's Sarcophagus or Imsety to establish Horus GY recursion, summon a rank 8 Xyz such as Photon Lord, Sanaphond, or Dingirsu, and set Canopic Protector or Powersink Stone.
• Turn 2 (going second): Tribute opposing threats with Lava Golem or Radian, then deploy Horus bodies from hand/GY and use rank 8 Xyz plus Horus the Black Flame Deity or S:P Little Knight for removal.
• Recovery: Recur Horus monsters from the GY with King's Sarcophagus or Canopic Protector; grind with Imsety draws and the rank 8 toolbox.
• After siding: No Side Deck is supplied; a real post-side plan would need to replace the unsupported Tachyon/Photon, Wightprincess, Soul Servant, and Dragoon slots with live matchup interaction.

Why it scores here

This Horus list is a midrange/control hybrid that can open a functional engine about 70% of the time with King's Sarcophagus or Imsety, then convert into rank 8 Xyz bodies and trap interaction. Its floor is modest, often one rank 8 plus a set Canopic Protector or Powersink Stone, while the ceiling is higher only when multiple Horus names and King's Sarcophagus line up. Going second is stronger because six Kaiju/Lava Golem slots break established boards, but the deck has almost no hand traps and several unsupported cards that lower consistency and main-deck efficiency: Wightprincess without Wightprince, Soul Servant without Dark Magician, Tachyon Spiral without a valid target, and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon without Dark Magician. The score comes from the system's starter reliability, recursion, interaction, and board-breaking balance, not from averaging individual card scores; the Horus archetype's usage share did not earn points, and no dated metagame sample exists, so Meta Power remains provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.7. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 57, Going Second ≈ 61, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 54. Modifiers: Powersink Stone anti-synergy (-2); Dead Extra Deck slot (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); modifiers -3

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.7 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.43 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.3 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Horus/King's Sarcophagus provides recursive GY summoning and rank 8 Xyz access.
• Six Kaiju/Lava Golem slots give strong established-board removal for going second.
• Rank 8 Extra Deck toolbox includes Photon Lord negate, Sanaphond GY lock, Dingirsu protection, and S:P Little Knight.
• Canopic Protector and Powersink Stone add opponent-turn interaction and monster-effect suppression.

Weaknesses

• Low exact-name Horus purity (20.5%) and many non-Horus slots reduce coherence.
• Several cards are unsupported: Wightprincess without Wightprince, Soul Servant without Dark Magician, Tachyon Spiral without a valid Dragon Galaxy target, and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon without Dark Magician.
• About 30% of opening hands miss both King's Sarcophagus and Imsety, and some of those hands have no proactive engine line.
• King's Sarcophagus is a central choke point; losing it turns off Horus GY self-summoning.
• Powersink Stone can negate your own face-up monster effects and is anti-synergistic with parts of the Horus package.
• No Side Deck and only one hand trap leave limited adaptability and interaction against combo.

Critical choke points

• Resolving and keeping King's Sarcophagus on the field.
• Opening King's Sarcophagus or Imsety; missing both leaves slow trap-only starts.
• Drawing live rank 8 materials after the engine resolves.
• Powersink Stone counter timing, since it can shut off your own face-up effects.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal for Duel Links: 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side; no size or copy-limit violations.; Dragluxion is Limited at 1 copy and Photon Jumper is Semi-Limited at 1 copy, both within legal limits.; Card texts show Horus/King's Sarcophagus recursion and the unsupported Wightprincess, Soul Servant, Tachyon Spiral, and Dragoon lines.
• Observed: Usage statistics include 22 rows; Imsety and King's Sarcophagus each show 91.1% inclusion in the sampled Horus lists.; No scored combo boards were supplied (0 combos).
• Inferred: P(at least one King's Sarcophagus or Imsety in opening 5) is about 0.70.; No-starter opening estimate is about 0.30 before counting unsupported-card hands.; Typical board inferred as one rank 8 Xyz plus a set trap; ceiling can be higher with multiple Horus names.; Powersink Stone is anti-synergistic with face-up Horus effects.; Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon is inaccessible without Dark Magician.
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit are provisional because no dated metagame or tournament sample exists.; Tournament reliability is inferred from consistency and Side Deck absence, not measured match data.
• 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 exists in YGOVN for going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick, starter, or OTK rates. Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. No Side Deck supplied, so post-side adaptability cannot be measured. The guide attachment has an empty snippet and no sections. Usage statistics mark several Extra Deck cards as not in this deck even though the resolved card list includes them; the card list is treated as authoritative.