Horus Deck #773978 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±6 · 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: Overwhelm with recurring Level 8 bodies into Xyz bosses (Photon Lord, Dingirsu, Coach King, Sanaphond) and 3000 ATK beaters while disrupting the opponent; Grind opponents out via reusable GY summons and hand-trap interaction, then break boards with Lava Golem/Nibiru and swing for lethal
• Turn 1 (going first): Establish King's Sarcophagus / Walls of the Imperial Tomb, send and revive Horus monsters into Level 8 Xyz, set Canopic Protector and hold hand traps
• Turn 2 (going second): Board-break with Lava Golem x2 / Nibiru / Underworld Goddess (uses an opponent's monster as material), then rebuild the Horus engine and attack for game
• Recovery: Re-Special Summon Horus monsters from the GY each turn while King's Sarcophagus stays on board, rebuilding Xyz turn after turn
• After siding: No side deck in this Duel Links build; adaptation rests on main-deck flex slots and which hand traps are drawn

Why it scores here

This Horus midrange deck reliably opens some part of its engine (P of at least one King's Sarcophagus / Imsety / Walls copy in a five-card hand is roughly 0.82), but the cleanest line actually wants Sarcophagus plus a Horus body, and Imsety's discard-two cost gates the smoothest starts. When it connects, it converts into recurring Level 8 bodies that rebuild every turn and touch the well-built Xyz toolbox (Photon Lord negate, Dingirsu, Sanaphond's GY lock, Coach King draw), backed by a broad hand-trap and Canopic Protector interaction suite and genuine closing power in the 3000 ATK monsters. The score is held back by a real brick tax: Soul Servant, Photon Jumper and Dark Magician of Destruction have no Dark Magician or Photon/Galaxy payoff in the list, so several slots are close to dead, and the whole engine collapses if King's Sarcophagus is removed. There are no recorded boards, so floor/median/ceiling are text-inferred, and no tournament or dated metagame sample exists, so Meta Power stays provisional. The number reflects consistency, recurring engine cohesion, interaction breadth and closing power measured on the system — it is not an average of card scores, and the archetype's real-but-unproven standing earned no points by itself.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: off-theme brick tax (-3); going-second breaking tools (1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.55 · 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

• Compact, redundant Horus engine with recurring GY summons that rebuild the board each turn
• Broad interaction package: Droll, Impermanence, Druiswurm, Nibiru and Fuwalos plus Photon Lord/Underworld Goddess negates and Canopic Protector floating
• Strong closing power from multiple 3000 ATK bosses and OTK-capable board breakers
• Well-rounded Level 8 Xyz extra deck (Dingirsu, Photon Lord, Sanaphond, Coach King) with TY-PHON and link coverage

Weaknesses

• Off-theme Dark Magician/Photon tech cards create dead draws with no payoff in the list
• The engine depends on King's Sarcophagus staying on board; losing it stalls the whole plan
• Discard-heavy Imsety/Sarcophagus lines cost cards and can run dry
• No combo or tournament data to confirm real output; floor/median are text-inferred

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus (Continuous Spell) being destroyed turns off all GY revivals
• Imsety's discard-two cost; poor hands without a body or Sarcophagus
• Low-impact normal summons such as Witch of the Black Forest can be the only playable line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Legal at 30 Main / 9 Extra / 0 Side within Duel Links size rules; Banlist statuses: Coach King Giantrainer Limited (x1), Druiswurm and Photon Jumper Semi-Limited (x1 each); Full 18-card Main Deck and 9-card Extra Deck card list with card text excerpts; Extra Deck composition: Dingirsu, Photon Lord, Sanaphond, Coach King, TY-PHON, S:P Little Knight, Knightmare Phoenix, Underworld Goddess, Dark Magician of Destruction
• Observed: Archetype usage statistics: 10 of 18 core cards present (55.6%); core Horus pieces Imsety/King's Sarcophagus at x3 match typical builds; Per-card open rates: Imsety, King's Sarcophagus, Walls and Droll each ≈0.43 in a 5-card hand
• Inferred: P(≥1 engine piece in 5) ≈ 0.82 but real 2-card requirement lowers practical consistency; Recurring GY-revival loop hinges on King's Sarcophagus surviving; Broad interaction density from hand traps plus Photon Lord/Underworld Goddess negates; Off-theme tech cards function as near-dead draws
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit — no tournament link or dated metagame sample; Meta Power remains provisional
• 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_this_deck' flags conflict with the card list for Extra Deck cards (Dingirsu, Photon Lord, Sanaphond, Coach King, Dark Magician of Destruction, Underworld Goddess, S:P, TY-PHON listed present but flagged copies 0); the verified card list was used instead