Orcust Deck #773850 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Midrange
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Orcust Link/Xyz end-board (Enlilgirsu, Longirsu, Galatea, Dingirsu, Zombie Vampire) built from GY banish-revive and Orcust Link material loops (Inferred from card text); Off-archetype pressure from Dark Magician of Destruction, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon and Knightmare or P link monsters (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Hand starter (Girsu, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Dark Magician Girl, Shining Sarcophagus) into Orcust Special Summons from Deck and a Link Summon toward Orcust Link monsters (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Answer the opponent's starter with hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C), then rebuild through Orcust GY effects (Inferred)
• Recovery: GY banish-revive effects (Orcust Harp Horror, Orcust Cymbal Skeleton, Galatea-I) and Orcustrated Babel recursion (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck supplied (side count 0); no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a hand-starter line: about 12 hand-starter copies (Girsu, Mulcharmy, Dark Magician Girl, Shining Sarcophagus) give roughly 85% odds of at least one starter in a 5-card opening hand (hypergeometric, Inferred), and the triple copies add redundancy. Its conversion relies on a link web of 11 Link Monsters plus several Xyz and Fusion options, so the ceiling is high but no recorded boards exist to measure the median. Eight hand traps plus Dominus Impulse, Orcust Crescendo and Crossout Designator give it multi-layer interaction on both turns, which drives the score. The score is not driven by Orcust's popularity, and the card scores were not averaged; the deck is docked for an archetype purity of only 20 percent (engine sprawl across Dark Magician, Mekk-Knight, Knightmare, P, Code Talker and Red-Eyes) and for having no side deck or meta data.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 64.7, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Engine conflicts / sub-archetype sprawl (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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

• Triple-copy hand starters give high opening-hand access (Inferred)
• Eight hand traps plus backrow interaction give layered answers on both turns (Verified text)
• Extra Deck spans 11 Link Monsters, giving many end-board routes (Verified composition)

Weaknesses

• Archetype purity is 20 percent, so the engines overlap and compete for slots (Verified composition)
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation (Verified legality)
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unmeasured (Verified data gap)

Critical choke points

• Hand-starter access: if the starter is stopped, the GY revival loop needs an Orcust monster in the GY (Inferred)
• Limited singletons Maxx C, Crossout Designator and Foolish Burial are each one copy and cannot be replaced if dead (Verified legality)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal list: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; restricted cards within limits (legality); Exact archetype purity 20 percent; archetype spread across 17 names (composition); Hand-trap count 8 and copy histogram 14 singles, 1 double, 8 triples (composition)
• Inferred: P(at least one hand-starter in 5 cards) is about 0.85 (probabilities); Interaction quality rated high from card text (text_role_hints); Conversion ceiling and floor rated from card text only (no boards)
• Provisional: Meta power is null; no dated metagame sample; Format fit rated neutral at 50 with no tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: total_combos 0, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck supplied (side 0), so post-side performance cannot be scored usage_statistics in_this_deck flags are false for Extra Deck cards that the deck does contain (Knightmare Phoenix, Knightmare Mermaid, Enlilgirsu, Galatea-I, S:P Little Knight, Dingirsu, Longirsu, I:P Masquerena, Galatea). The missing_core list therefore overstates the gap, and core_present_pct is unreliable for the Extra Deck Guide snippets (guide 1235) mention a Fiendsmith combo, but this deck has no Fiendsmith cards, so that guide evidence does not directly apply