Horus Deck #773977 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, Blind-Second/OTK
• Format: duel-links

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Rank 8 Xyz beatdown (Dingirsu / Number 90 / Number 68 / Coach King) backed by King's Sarcophagus graveyard recursion and a dense hand-trap suite.; Lava Golem + Nibiru board-breaking into an out-of-nowhere push; Underworld Goddess using the opponent's own monster as material.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open King's Sarcophagus or Walls of the Imperial Tomb, dump Imsety to the GY, revive a Horus body and overlay into a Rank 8 (Number 90 for a negate or Dingirsu for protection) while holding Droll / Veiler / Nibiru.
• Turn 2 (going second): Tribute two of the opponent's monsters with Lava Golem, resolve Nibiru or Droll against their extension, then rebuild Sarcophagus and convert leftover bodies into TY-PHON, Underworld Goddess or a Rank 8.
• Recovery: Each turn Sarcophagus sends another Horus from Deck to GY so the GY-revive clause keeps producing bodies; re-overlay into the Rank 8 toolbox or re-establish Canopic Protector for a body plus removal.
• After siding: No Side Deck exists in Duel Links; the ladder plan is the same 30/9 list, so adaptability rests entirely on in-engine flexibility.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens some piece of the Horus engine — Imsety, King's Sarcophagus or Walls of the Imperial Tomb sit at nine combined copies, so roughly 86% of five-card hands contain one — but conversion still needs a partner card, and about 14% of hands contain no engine card at all and simply lose to a normal board. What it converts into is modest rather than spectacular: because Duel Links gives only three monster zones, the realistic median is one Rank 8 Xyz plus Sarcophagus protection and a hand trap, not a wide multi-negate board. Its real edge is the non-engine package — eight hand traps, three Lava Golem and Nibiru — which makes the going-second half genuinely strong and gives the deck a way to fight through established boards rather than fold to them. Resilience is concentrated in one place: the GY-revive loop is excellent while King's Sarcophagus or Walls is on the field and collapses if it is removed, so the deck has an unrecoverable choke point that a competent opponent can target. No combos were supplied and no dated metagame sample exists, so the score reflects consistency, disruption density and the single choke point measured on the system as a whole — it is not an average of the individual card scores, and the archetype's high inclusion rates did not earn any points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.7. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 61, Going Second ≈ 65, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Hard-garnet burden (-2); Unrecoverable choke point (-1); Engine compactness (1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.52 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.14 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Very high disruption density: eight hand traps (Droll ×3, Nibiru ×3, Effect Veiler ×2) plus Bystial Druiswurm, giving P(≥1 in six cards) ≈ 0.87 going second.
• Lava Golem ×3 is a premium board breaker in a three-zone format, tributing two of the opponent's monsters for one card.
• The Horus engine self-recovers from the graveyard every turn while King's Sarcophagus is live, so the deck grinds better than its small body count suggests.
• Compact main deck (15 distinct cards) with a clean split between engine and interaction, leaving room to adjust ratios.
• Extra Deck covers distinct roles — negation (Number 90), protection (Dingirsu), GY lock (Sanaphond), removal (S:P), board-break (Underworld Goddess, TY-PHON).

Weaknesses

• Roughly 14% of five-card hands contain no engine card and cannot produce a board.
• Soul Servant is a dead card: it needs Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl or Palladium targets and none exist in this list.
• Photon Jumper's search effect has no legal Photon or Galaxy Spell/Trap targets in the deck, making it a marginal one-of at best.
• Every recovery route depends on King's Sarcophagus or Walls of the Imperial Tomb; a single banish or destroy on that card ends the grind plan.
• Lava Golem forbids the Normal Summon on the turn it is used and can hand the opponent a 3000 ATK wall if the push fails.
• No combo or tournament evidence exists to confirm the ceiling or matchup spread.

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus / Walls of the Imperial Tomb removal — cuts off all GY revival and Horus effect protection.
• No two-card opener — without an engine piece plus a partner, the turn ends on a bare hand trap.
• Imsety, Glory of Horus as the only true one-card starter; negating its effect leaves only the slower Sarcophagus shell.
• Extra Deck access is gated by having two Level 8 bodies on field, which a single well-timed interruption can prevent.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal: 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side, no size or copy-limit violations under the Duel Links banlist.; Full card text is present for all 24 distinct cards in the list.; Coach King Giantrainer is Limited to 1; Bystial Druiswurm and Photon Jumper are Semi-Limited to 2, and this list respects all three.
• Observed: Usage statistics are available: 22 stat rows and 18 archetype-core cards above 50% inclusion, confirming the list is a real, recognised Horus build.; Hypergeometric draw table was computed from the resolved 30-card Main Deck (3 copies ≈ 0.434 in a 5-card hand, 2 copies ≈ 0.310, 1 copy ≈ 0.167).; Combos evidence is empty — zero parseable boards, so no measured floor, median or ceiling exists.
• Inferred: P(≥1 engine card in the opening five) ≈ 0.86 and full engine-less hands ≈ 14%, computed from nine engine copies in thirty.; Soul Servant and Photon Jumper are functionally blank in this list based on their own card text and the absence of matching targets.; Horus graveyard revival is the deck's only recursion axis, making Sarcophagus/Walls removal an unrecoverable choke point.; Rank 8 Xyz is the main conversion path, constrained to roughly one to two bodies by Duel Links' three monster zones.
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup spread cannot be assessed: no tournament link and no dated metagame sample were supplied.; Format fit against the current Duel Links ladder is assumed from archetype usage, not from any measured matchup record.
• Data gaps: No combos 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, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. Internal inconsistency: usage_statistics flags Dingirsu, Number 90, Number 68, Dark Magician of Destruction, Underworld Goddess, Coach King Giantrainer, S:P Little Knight and TY-PHON as not in the deck, yet all eight appear in the resolved Extra Deck — the cards array was treated as authoritative. Guide evidence for the archetype contains only an empty snippet (0 sections), so no human strategic intent was available.