Horus Deck #773956 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±6 · 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: Establish King's Sarcophagus, recur Horus monsters from the GY into Rank-8 Xyz plays, and out-grind the opponent behind trap and hand-trap interaction; Lava Golem the opponent's board and close with 3000-4000 ATK beaters (Imsety, Horus the Black Flame Deity, Galaxy-Eyes Full Armor Photon Dragon)
• Turn 1 (going first): Set King's Sarcophagus or Walls of the Imperial Tomb, use Imsety/King's Sarcophagus to dump a Horus to the GY, set Powersink Stone and/or Canopic Protector, and build a Rank-8 such as Number 90: Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Lava Golem plus hand traps (Droll, D.D. Crow, Druiswurm) to strip the board, then Special Summon Horus from the GY and push with high-ATK Xyz
• Recovery: King's Sarcophagus sends Horus from Deck to GY repeatedly (up to four times per turn) and Horus names re-summon themselves from the GY; Canopic Protector floats when sent to the GY and Coach King Giantrainer draws
• After siding: No side deck is built, so the post-side plan is undefined; it would rely on removing Lava Golem going first and adding targeted hand traps/board breakers

Why it scores here

This is a coherent Horus midrange/control shell whose consistency comes from the field-card engine: five ways to resolve King's Sarcophagus (3 copies plus 2 Walls of the Imperial Tomb) and Imsety as a dump-and-search starter give roughly a 63% chance of opening the Sarcophagus and a 76% chance of a searcher-text card in the opening five, so the core turns on reliably. Its value is grind and layered interaction rather than a big ceiling — Sarcophagus recursion plus Canopic Protector and Coach King Giantrainer let it rebuild across turns while Number 90, Dingirsu protection, Powersink Stone and a hand-trap suite answer the opponent. The clear weaknesses are the three Lava Golem, which are strong going second but dead going first, and the complete absence of a side deck, which caps its adaptability. No recorded combos exist, so floor/median/ceiling are text-only inferences, and the archetype's sizeable real-world presence earned it no points — the number reflects consistency, resilience and interaction measured on the system, not an average of the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.75 Midrange / 0.25 Control. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 61, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Hard garnet burden (-2); No side deck (-2); Compact engine (1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.63 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.45 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.18 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Reliable Sarcophagus engine with five field-card copies plus Imsety
• Strong grind and GY recursion via Sarcophagus and Canopic Protector
• Well-covered 9-slot Rank-8 Extra toolbox (negation, removal, protection, control, GY lock)
• Real going-second tools in three Lava Golem plus a hand-trap suite
• Coherent, compact main-deck core

Weaknesses

• No side deck — no post-side plan
• Three Lava Golem brick going first
• Engine hinges on the King's Sarcophagus field card; without it, Horus names are dead
• No recorded combos; floor/ceiling unverified
• Limited OTK/closing pressure for a level-8 pile

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus / Walls of the Imperial Tomb resolving and surviving
• Drawing multiple Level-8 Horus names with no Sarcophagus or Imsety
• Lava Golem stranded in hand on the play

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality Legal, 30 Main / 9 Extra / 0 Side, no violations; Coach King Giantrainer Limited, Bystial Druiswurm and Photon Jumper Semi-Limited, all within copy limits; Card texts for all 15 main and 9 extra distinct cards
• Observed: No scored combo boards available (combo data total 0); Usage statistics show the Horus core is the archetype-standard build (Imsety and King's Sarcophagus at 3 copies)
• Inferred: Field-card open probability ~63% and searcher-text group ~76% (hypergeometric); Brick estimate ~18% driven by Lava Golem and unpaired Level-8 names; Grind, resilience and interaction reads derived from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup/format fit — no dated metagame sample or tournament link
• 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 usage statistics in/out flags conflict with the resolved card list (e.g. Number 90 and Dingirsu listed as missing but present in Extra)