Horus Deck #773961 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Rank 8 Xyz (Number 90: Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord, Dingirsu) plus Evil Eye Links (Gorgon, Zerrziel) generating layered negates and removal backed by Horus graveyard recursion under King's Sarcophagus.; Underworld Goddess / high-ATK boss beatdown to close the game.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open King's Sarcophagus or Walls of the Imperial Tomb to establish the Horus loop, dump/bring back Level 8 Horus bodies and Xyz into Number 90/Dingirsu; alternatively Normal Summon Serziel, search an Evil Eye card and climb into Gorgon with an Evil Eye equip for a negate.
• Turn 2 (going second): Discard Mulcharmy Fuwalos for draw pressure, drop Bystial Druiswurm to remove/trade on the opponent's Special Summon, use Underworld Goddess to out an established boss, then convert with Rank 8 bodies.
• Recovery: Revive Horus monsters from the GY while King's Sarcophagus is up, recur Catoblepas from grave, and grind with Evil Eye equips and searches.
• After siding: Duel Links is effectively single-game with no side deck, so no post-side adaptation is available.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an engine because search-tagged cards are abundant (archetype-core open probability ~0.76 in five, search-text group ~0.97), so a functional start is common even though it is really two parallel packages. What it converts is modest and unverified: with no recorded boards, the realistic turn is a Rank 8 body plus an Evil Eye negate, not a large multi-negate board. Interaction is respectable and layered (Number 90, Gorgon, Underworld Goddess, Dingirsu protection, Impermanence), but each line depends on a two-card chain that a single well-placed negate can strand. The Main Deck is not compact — six one-ofs across Horus and Evil Eye raise brick/awkward-hand risk — and the Extra Deck wastes a slot on Deus Machinex, which needs Level 10s the deck cannot produce. This score is a system-level judgment of consistency, median output, resilience and cost; it is not an average of card scores, and neither the Horus name nor archetype popularity earned it any points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Two-engine split focus (-3); Off-synergy Extra Deck slot (-2); Search redundancy (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.76 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.12 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High redundancy of search and 3-of starters across both engines gives strong opening access.
• Grindy recursion: Horus monsters return from GY under King's Sarcophagus.
• Layered interaction (Number 90, Gorgon, Underworld Goddess negates) plus removal (Zerrziel, Dingirsu, Bystial).

Weaknesses

• Split focus between Horus and Evil Eye makes the list a pile rather than a compact engine.
• Six conditional one-ofs raise brick and awkward-hand risk.
• Extra Deck contains off-synergy slots (Deus Machinex needs Level 10; Darius is narrow).
• No recorded boards, so floor/median output is unverified.
• No side deck adaptation in Duel Links.

Critical choke points

• Resolving King's Sarcophagus / Walls of the Imperial Tomb to start the Horus line.
• Resolving Serziel's Normal Summon search to start the Evil Eye line.
• A single negation on the first search strands the turn with no follow-up.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Legal: 30 Main / 9 Extra / 0 Side within Duel Links caps.; Bystial Druiswurm at 2 copies is within its Semi-Limited limit.; Card texts and banlist tokens for all listed cards.
• Observed: usage statistics present with archetype inclusion percentages.; combo data records 0 parseable boards (no going-first/second data).
• Inferred: Archetype-core open probability ≈ 0.76 and search-text group ≈ 0.97 in a five-card hand.; Consistency, brick rate, median output and interaction quality derived from card text.; Two-engine incoherence and off-synergy Extra Deck slot reduce cohesion.
• Provisional: Meta Power null: no dated metagame sample.; Matchup coverage and format fit (D13) cannot be measured.
• 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 Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage statistics in this deck flags conflict with the card list (e.g. Dingirsu/Number 90 shown as not in deck though present) — treated the resolved list as source of truth