Horus Deck #773638 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 49/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Rank-8 Xyz grind (Number 90: Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord / Dingirsu / Number 68) supported by Evil Eye link removal and Infinite Impermanence; Evil Eye equip-based removal/negation lock (Gorgoneio / Selene into Gorgon / Zerrziel) or a World Gears beatdown swing
• Turn 1 (going first): Open King's Sarcophagus plus Imsety or Walls of the Imperial Tomb to enable the Horus GY engine, convert into a rank-8 Xyz and one Evil Eye link, then set Infinite Impermanence
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Infinite Impermanence, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Bystial Druiswurm, Serziel's destroy effect and Underworld Goddess to force interaction and break the opponent's board before committing to Xyz/Link pressure
• Recovery: Horus monsters Special Summon repeatedly from the GY while King's Sarcophagus is on field; Imsety draws, Catoblepas self-revives, Evil Eye searches rebuild the equip line
• After siding: No side deck in this Duel Links list; adaptation is limited to main-deck swaps for a second game

Why it scores here

This list opens a functional line fairly often because the two separate shell pieces are individually redundant: P(>=1 archetype-core card in the opening 5) is about 0.76 and P(>=1 searcher-text card) about 0.97, so it usually has something to play. But the Horus engine (King's Sarcophagus, Walls of the Imperial Tomb, Imsety) and the Evil Eye engine (Pareidolia, Serziel, Awakening, the equips) never bridge into each other, so each half is diluted across a 30-card deck and the median hand converts into a thinner board than the best-case line suggests. The real evidence ceiling is a rank-8 Xyz (Number 90 negate, Dingirsu protection, Number 68 GY lock) plus one Evil Eye link backed by three Infinite Impermanence; there are no recorded combo boards, so floor, median and ceiling are all text-based inferences, and the score is not the average of the individual card scores. Interaction and recursion are genuinely present, which keeps the score near the middle of the scale, but two non-intersecting engines and a 0.24 full-brick proxy hold it down. No popularity or archetype-share points were credited, and Meta Power stays provisional because no dated metagame sample exists.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 53, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Engine conflict (unbridged halves) (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.76 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.24 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High raw opener density: four core cards at ~0.43 each in the opening 5 and a searcher-text group at ~0.97
• Horus recursion is genuinely repeatable while King's Sarcophagus stays on field, supporting multi-turn grind
• Layered interaction available: Infinite Impermanence, Number 90 negate, Gorgon negate, Zerrziel destruction, Number 68 GY lock
• Extra deck is fully mapped to the two shells rather than padded with unused slots
• Five main-deck cards (Fuwalos, Impermanence, Druiswurm, Serziel, Underworld Goddess) give real going-second counterplay

Weaknesses

• Two engines with zero bridge cards: Horus searches only Horus, Evil Eye searches only Evil Eye
• Only 30 main slots, so each half is diluted relative to a dedicated build (~12.8% exact-archetype purity)
• Single-card Evil Eye pieces (Awakening, Selene, Gorgoneio, Catoblepas, Basilius) are conditional one-ofs that raise dead-hand risk
• No recorded combo data; the true floor/median output is unverified
• No side deck, so post-side adaptation is limited to main-deck swaps
• Meta fit is unassessable — no dated metagame sample supplied

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus: without it the Horus GY-Summon loop and Imsety's recursion collapse
• Imsety is the only Horus body that converts the Sarcophagus line into real advantage at three copies
• Evil Eye of Selene / Gorgoneio: without an equip in the Spell & Trap Zone, Gorgon, Zerrziel and Serziel lose their removal/negate effects
• One interruption (e.g. Impermanence on Serziel or a Negate on a link summon) can end a turn where the two halves did not combine

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 30 main / 9 extra / 0 side is within Duel Links caps; Bystial Druiswurm x2 is legal at Semi-Limited (BanDuelLink); Card text for Walls of the Imperial Tomb, King's Sarcophagus, Imsety, Serziel, Pareidolia, Gorgon, Zerrziel, Number 90, Number 68 and Underworld Goddess; Composition: 15 distinct main cards, archetype spread Evil Eye 14 / generic 10 / Horus 5
• Observed: Usage statistics available for the Horus archetype (22 rows); Imsety at 91.1% inclusion / 3 copies and King's Sarcophagus at 91.1% / 3 copies; Hypergeometric draw table: 3-copy cards are 0.4335 in the opening 5 and 0.5015 in the opening 6
• Inferred: Starter and brick estimates (0.7639 core opener, 0.2361 full-brick proxy) derived from copy counts; Ceiling read of a rank-8 Xyz plus one Evil Eye link as the realistic best board; Horus and Evil Eye engines are unbridged, so opening one half does not advance the other; Going-first and going-second power splits built from interaction density and board-breaker text
• Provisional: Matchup coverage and format fit cannot be established without a dated metagame sample; Meta Power is null / provisional
• 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 no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Inconsistency in usage_statistics: Dingirsu, Number 90, Number 68 and Underworld Goddess are flagged in_this_deck=false with 0 copies while all four appear in the deck's extra list; the cards array was treated as authoritative guides_evidence contains one Horus guide with an empty snippet and no section titles — no usable strategic intent