Orcust Deck #773709 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Orcust Link and Xyz board (Galatea, Dingirsu, Enlilgirsu, Longirsu) built from Orcust monsters that recur from the GY, with Girsu and Harp Horror as the main recursive engine.; Gandora-G and World Legacy follow-ups once Shining Sarcophagus or a World Legacy link is online.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Main Deck Orcust or Mekk-Knight starter, search or send to GY with Girsu or Shining Sarcophagus, then Link Summon into Orcust link monsters while holding Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse for interruption.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Skull Meister and Ghost Ogre to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Orcust GY effects.
• Recovery: Recover from GY using Orcust Harp Horror, Orcust Cymbal Skeleton and Orcustrated Babel, which re-enable the Orcust engine after a disrupted turn.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional Orcust starter: the archetype core group has an estimated 0.959 chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and Girsu, Harp Horror and Shining Sarcophagus give it redundant entry points. Its interaction density is high, with 17 negation-text cards and 10 hand traps, so it can answer a first board from hand. Conversion and floor are only moderate, because no recorded boards exist and the list is 23% exact-archetype with 54 off-archetype copies, which dilutes the engine. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score. The deck is over the copy limit on two Semi-Limited cards and has no Side Deck, so the score is structural only and is capped by the illegal-list modifier.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy limit (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 52, then illegal-list modifier -12 = 40 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.04 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense negation and hand-trap layer (17 negation text, 10 hand traps)
• High probability of an Orcust starter in the opening hand (~0.96)
• Recursive Orcust GY effects support recovery after disruption
• Extra Deck covers multiple link and Xyz boss routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two cards run over the Semi-Limited copy limit
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Low exact-archetype purity (23%) dilutes the engine
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are text-only estimates

Critical choke points

• Single Orcust starter density depends on Girsu and Harp Horror being drawn for the recursive engine
• Going-second hands depend on hand-trap count (Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2; Main Deck 55 cards, Extra 15 cards, Side 0 cards; Card text, banlist status and Extra-Deck breakdown from evidence pack
• Observed: Archetype usage: Girsu, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Ash Blossom and Typhoon at 100% inclusion; Harp Horror, Cymbal Skeleton at 50%
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.96 from archetype core group; Hand-trap access about 0.72 for going-second hands; Interaction density and resilience read from card text; Brick and consistency read from off-archetype dilution
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• 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 absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty, so post-side scoring has no data