Invoked Deck #773982 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 65/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Out-grind and out-value the opponent with the Horus recursion loop (King's Sarcophagus + Imsety + revive-from-GY) supported by Invoked Fusion bosses (Mechaba negate, Augoeides removal) and beat down with 3000 ATK bodies.; OTK/beatdown with Invoked Purgatrio (multi-attack, piercing) or Horus the Black Flame Deity after clearing the board with Forbidden Droplet / Underworld Goddess.
• Turn 1 (going first): Land King's Sarcophagus (or Walls of the Imperial Tomb copying its name), use Imsety to fetch Sarcophagus and draw, dump and revive Horus bodies, set Canopic Protector, and hold Aleister/Magical Meltdown to make a Mechaba negate.
• Turn 2 (going second): Break the board with Forbidden Droplet and Underworld Goddess of the Closed World (using an opponent's monster as material), then push damage with Purgatrio or the 3000 ATK Horus/Imsety bodies; Super Starslayer TY-PHON as an out to big boards.
• Recovery: Horus monsters self-revive from the GY while King's Sarcophagus stays up; Invocation recycles banished Aleister targets; Imsety's send-and-draw keeps the engine stocked across turns.
• After siding: No dedicated side deck was built (0 of 9 allowed slots); adaptation relies solely on the flexible main-deck hand traps and board breakers already present.

Why it scores here

This Horus-Invoked list is scored as a connected system, not as an average of its cards. It reliably opens an engine: the Horus package (King's Sarcophagus, Walls of the Imperial Tomb, Imsety — nine copies) is reachable in roughly 86% of five-card hands and the Invoked package (Magical Meltdown, Aleister, Invocation — eight copies) in roughly 81%, giving two largely independent access routes. It converts a live engine into a durable midrange board — Horus bodies that self-revive from the GY under King's Sarcophagus plus a Mechaba negate and a set Canopic Protector — rather than a large multi-negate combo board, and it grinds well by recycling with Imsety's draw and Invocation's GY recursion. Interaction and going-second tools (Forbidden Droplet, Underworld Goddess, Droll, Veiler) are present but modest in density, and the deck has no side deck, so its post-side and turnaround plans are limited. The score reflects consistency, median grind output and interaction on the system; popularity or the Invoked archetype's familiarity earned no points, and card-level power was never summed. Because no combo boards were recorded, the floor/median/ceiling reads are text-based inference and confidence is only Medium.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 67, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: Compact standard core (2); No side deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.62 · 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

• Two independent engine access routes (Horus ~86%, Invoked ~81% in a 5-card hand) give strong open-hand consistency.
• Excellent grind: Horus monsters self-revive from the GY under King's Sarcophagus, Imsety draws, and Invocation recycles banished Aleister.
• Well-rounded 9-card Extra Deck covering Fusion, Link and Xyz toolboxes including Mechaba negate and Underworld Goddess removal.
• Magical Meltdown protects Fusion Summons from activation negation, hardening the Invoked line.

Weaknesses

• Four one-of Level-8 Horus monsters plus Imsety's two-discard cost create real dead-card and garnet risk.
• End boards are midrange (a Mechaba negate + Horus bodies) rather than a wide multi-negate wall.
• No side deck built, so post-side adaptation is limited to main-deck tools.
• Board-breaker density going second (two Forbidden Droplet) is modest for breaking large established boards.

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus being removed shuts off the Horus revive loop that the whole grind plan depends on.
• Aleister the Invoker being negated on Normal Summon strands the Invoked package without a Fusion play.
• Imsety needing two cards to discard means hands of Horus monsters without Sarcophagus can stall out.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 30, Extra Deck 9, Side Deck 0 — within Duel Links size rules; no copy-limit violations; status Legal with warning.; All listed cards carry Unlimited banlist status with legal copy counts.; Card texts used for role reads: Mechaba negate, Underworld Goddess effect-negate, Forbidden Droplet, King's Sarcophagus dump, Imsety send-and-draw.; Extra Deck contents: Mechaba, Purgatrio, Augoeides, Dark Magician of Destruction, S:P, I:P, Underworld Goddess, Dugares, TY-PHON.
• Observed: usage statistics sample of 25 rows shows the archetype-standard core (100% inclusion) matching this list's main and Extra Deck composition.
• Inferred: Both engines are individually live in ~80%+ of five-card hands (hypergeometric estimate).; Grind loop derived from Horus self-revive plus Invocation GY recursion.; Median board inferred as Mechaba or 1-2 Horus bodies plus a set trap; no power-index data exists.; Full-brick rate estimated near 0.12.
• Provisional: Meta Power and Matchup Coverage — no dated metagame sample or tournament link 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. Passcode 86120751 (3 copies) is unresolved in the export; identified by context as Aleister the Invoker but flagged here. usage statistics in this deck flags are unreliable: several Extra Deck cards listed as 'not in deck' are actually present in the cards array. No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied.