Horus Deck #773954 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 28 / Extra 8 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Recurring Horus bodies converted into Rank 8 Xyz pressure — Number 90: Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord, Dingirsu, Sanaphond — backed by Canopic Protector and Powersink Stone.; Lava Golem / Underworld Goddess board-breaking followed by 3000-ATK Horus monsters closing the game.
• Turn 1 (going first): Imsety searches King's Sarcophagus, Sarcophagus sends a Horus from Deck to GY, that Horus revives itself, Xyz Summon into Number 90 or Sanaphond, then set Canopic Protector or Powersink Stone as follow-up interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Lava Golem (tribute two of the opponent's three zones) or Underworld Goddess to strip the board, then Rank 8 into Dingirsu/S:P/TY-PHON for targeted removal and swing with 3000-ATK bodies.
• Recovery: Horus monsters Special Summon themselves from the GY every turn while King's Sarcophagus stays on the field; Imsety recycles itself and Canopic Protector replaces lost bodies on the opponent's turn.
• After siding: No Side Deck was submitted, so no post-side plan exists to evaluate.

Why it scores here

This Horus list is scored as a midrange system, not as a pile of individually strong cards. It reliably opens an engine piece at roughly 79% (Imsety, King's Sarcophagus or Walls of the Imperial Tomb), then converts that into a single Rank 8 backed by Canopic Protector and Powersink Stone; the ceiling adds Number 90's negate and Sanaphond's GY lock, but there are no recorded boards, so floor and median are text inference only. Its real strength is the grind: Horus monsters revive from the GY every turn behind King's Sarcophagus and Canopic Protector floats, which is the same redundancy that carries it through one piece of disruption. Its real cost is construction — Lava Golem is a dead card 46% of the time going first, Dark Magical Curtain hands the opponent a free body, and nine of sixteen main-deck cards are singletons, so opening-hand quality is below the engine's raw consistency. Going second the deck is genuinely better thanks to Lava Golem, Underworld Goddess and S:P, but the empty Side Deck removes any adaptation layer. Meta share, archetype popularity and usage percentages were treated purely as confirmation that the list is real — they earned no points here — and no card score was averaged into the final number.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: Hard-garnet burden (-3); Engine compactness (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.79 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.55 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.08 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Recurring GY engine — Horus monsters revive every turn behind King's Sarcophagus, giving real grind without extra cards.
• Strong going-second package: Lava Golem, Underworld Goddess, S:P and TY-PHON all break or answer established boards.
• Layered interaction across monster negate (Number 90), GY lock (Sanaphond), protection/removal (Dingirsu) and trap-based disruption (Canopic Protector, Powersink Stone).
• Compact engine core leaves roughly half the deck for staples and hand traps.

Weaknesses

• Lava Golem x3 is a dead card going first, hurting opening-hand quality on the deck's primary turn.
• Nine of sixteen main-deck cards are singletons, so draw-to-draw quality is uneven.
• King's Sarcophagus is a single continuous-spell choke point; losing it turns off the entire revival loop.
• No Side Deck, so no adaptation between games in a best-of-three.
• Dark Magical Curtain is off-plan and gifts the opponent a free DARK Spellcaster body.

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus removed or negated — Horus monsters can no longer revive from the GY and the deck falls back to a beatdown plan.
• Imsety's deck search negated leaves the hand with Horus bodies but no Sarcophagus to enable them.
• A single Rank 8 per turn is the realistic output; a well-timed negate on the Xyz line leaves an empty-ish board.
• Reliance on drawing into an engine piece — roughly one in five five-card hands has no starter at all.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Legal: 28 Main / 8 Extra / 0 Side within Duel Links caps (20–30 main, 0–9 extra, 0–9 side).; Photon Jumper is Semi-Limited with legal copies 2 and the deck runs 1 copy — compliant.; Card text for King's Sarcophagus, Imsety, Canopic Protector, Walls of the Imperial Tomb and the Extra Deck bosses as supplied in the evidence pack.; Side Deck count is 0.
• Observed: Archetype usage inclusion: Duamutef 97.8%, Qebehsenuef 93.3%, Imsety 91.1%, King's Sarcophagus 91.1%, Photon Jumper 73.3%, Hapi 71.1%, Horus the Black Flame Deity 71.1%, Lava Golem 60%, Canopic Protector 53.3%.
• Inferred: P(≥1 engine starter in a 5-card hand) ≈0.79 from the seven opener copies.; P(≥1 Lava Golem in a 5-card going-first hand) ≈0.46 — a significant going-first dead-card rate.; Horus GY-revival recursion implies strong multi-turn grind once King's Sarcophagus is established.; Interaction layering (monster negate + GY lock + protection + trap disruption) read from card text rather than measured boards.; Deck is more effective going second because the board-breaker suite is live.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null — no dated metagame sample was supplied.; Matchup fit and format positioning cannot be measured without tournament data.; Post-side performance is unknown and unscoreable with a zero-card Side Deck.
• Data gaps: No combo/board records 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 exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates). Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. Minor internal discrepancy: the listed Main Deck copies sum to 26 while legality reports main_count 28. The archetype core probability (0.995 at 17 copies) is a proxy that includes off-engine staples and was not used as a starter metric.