Horus Deck #773960 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, Going-Second Board-Breaker
• Format: duel-links

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Rank 8 Xyz pressure backed by Horus GY recursion and trap interaction; Board-breaker beatdown with Lava Golem/Kaiju and 3000 ATK Horus bodies
• Turn 1 (going first): Open King's Sarcophagus or Imsety; establish King's, send/summon Horus names, make Rank 8 interaction (Number 90/Dingirsu/Sanaphond) and set Canopic Protector/Powersink Stone.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Lava Golem/Radian/Wightprincess to clear or shrink the opponent's board, then assemble Horus bodies into Rank 8 or TY-PHON and close with 3000 ATK attackers.
• Recovery: Rebuild through King's Sarcophagus by sending Horus names to GY and summoning them back; Canopic Protector can summon from hand/GY in response to opponent's effects.
• After siding: No side deck submitted; no defined post-side plan in evidence.

Why it scores here

This Horus build is a midrange/control system whose score comes from the King's Sarcophagus + Imsety engine, not from averaging individual card power or from archetype popularity. It opens a primary starter about 70% of the time with six copies of King's Sarcophagus/Imsety, then converts into one or more Rank 8 bodies with Number 90/Dingirsu/Sanaphond-style interaction; Canopic Protector and Horus GY recursion give it a real grind plan. Going second it has meaningful board-breaker density in Lava Golem, Radian, Wightprincess and TY-PHON, but those same cards are poor in the going-first opener. The floor is dragged down by dead main-deck slots (Soul Servant, Tachyon Spiral Galaxy, Photon Jumper), two questionable Extra Deck slots, and a hard choke point on King's Sarcophagus. No recorded combo boards or dated metagame sample exist, so combo ceiling, matchup fit and Meta Power remain conservative/inferred; the deck never earns points merely for being a recognized Horus list.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60.7, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Dead-card burden (-2); Single choke point (-1); No side deck (-1); Board-breaker density (1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.7 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.43 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.3 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• King's Sarcophagus + Imsety form a compact two-card core that can establish the Horus GY engine and access Rank 8 Xyz.
• Horus GY recursion and Canopic Protector give the deck a real rebuild/grind plan when King's Sarcophagus survives.
• Going second, Lava Golem, Radian, Wightprincess and TY-PHON provide meaningful board-breaking and damage-reduction tools.
• The Extra Deck contains strong Rank 8 interaction options: Number 90 negation, Dingirsu protection, Sanaphond GY lock, Dragluxion search and S:P banish.

Weaknesses

• Soul Servant has no Dark Magician target in the Main Deck; Tachyon Spiral Galaxy lacks a reliable Dragon 'Galaxy' target; Photon Jumper mainly searches a dead trap.
• Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon needs Dark Magician, and Number 46 Dragluon needs two Level 8 Dragons; both are questionable Extra Deck slots.
• Six board breakers (Lava Golem/Kaiju) are poor in the going-first opener and reduce Horus engine density; Lava Golem also blocks Normal Summon.
• Powersink Stone is slow and can negate your own face-up Horus monster effects.
• No side deck and no tagged hand traps leave limited evidenced interaction against fast combo decks.

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus being negated or destroyed before Horus GY summons resolve.
• Imsety's discard/search effect being interrupted.
• No backup engine if the Horus line is stopped; many non-engine cards do not advance a plan.
• Dead Extra Deck slots reduce the toolbox available when the main plan is disrupted.
• Lava Golem/Kaiju are dead cards in the going-first opener.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal for Duel Links: 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side, no copy-limit violations.; Dragluxion is Limited at 1 and Photon Jumper is Semi-Limited at 2; the list runs legal copies.; Card text confirms Soul Servant needs Dark Magician support, Tachyon Spiral Galaxy needs a Dragon 'Galaxy' target, and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon needs Dark Magician.; Usage stats show high Horus core inclusion: Imsety 91.1%, King's Sarcophagus 91.1%, Duamutef 97.8%, Qebehsenuef 93.3%.; No combo boards were supplied (0).
• Observed: The deck export contains 0 recorded combo boards and 0 tournament match records.
• Inferred: P(≥1 King's Sarcophagus or Imsety in opening 5) ≈ 0.70.; Full-brick/no-primary-starter rate ≈ 0.30.; Median line likely one Rank 8 plus a set trap; ceiling is multiple Rank 8 interactions.; Lava Golem/Kaiju are dead in the going-first opener and reduce engine density.; King's Sarcophagus is the system choke point.
• Provisional: Meta Power is provisional; no dated metagame sample or matchup record is supplied.
• 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 flags several Extra Deck cards as not in deck despite appearing in the resolved card list; possible preprocessing inconsistency. No side deck submitted.