Horus the Black Flame Dragon Deck #774186 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 32/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Midrange
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Synchro/Link/Xyz boards (for example Psychic End Punisher, Arms of Genex Return Zero, Chaofeng) that the deck's hand traps and negations are meant to protect; Horus monsters recurred from the GY via King's Sarcophagus, with Imsety and Duamutef as the main pressure bodies
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Imsety, Triple Tactics Thrust, Speedroid Terrortop, Nibiru) and build a board, holding Ash Blossom or Nibiru for the opponent's first activation (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Evenly Matched) on the opponent's first board, then rebuild through GY-summoned Horus and searchers (Inferred from card text)
• Recovery: Search and recursion from the GY through King's Sarcophagus, Imsety, Duamutef and Golden Bamboo Sword draws (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck (0 side cards), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

Scored as a system under the Toolbox profile, not from card averages. The deck's reliable opening is limited: Imsety, the Horus starter, has only a 0.25 chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and the 41 distinct main-deck cards come from roughly 21 archetype sub-families with 0% exact-name purity, so starters rarely line up with the rest of the list. Its strongest part is interaction: Nibiru, Ash Blossom, Evenly Matched, Dark Ruler No More and the Yang Zing trap give about 57% odds of at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand (Inferred), and the Extra Deck carries several large Synchro and Link boards. Recorded combos are absent, so the ceiling and median are text-only estimates. The list is illegal (Ash Blossom at 3 copies against a limit of 2), so it is capped and scored as theoretical and structural only; the archetype's popularity earns no points, and no side deck means no post-side adaptation.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 46, Going First ≈ 44, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (copy-limit violation) (-6); Engine conflicts (-4); No post-side plan (-2). Final formula: Illegal deck: theoretical/structural-only. 0.80*Structural(46) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(38) = 44.4, then modifiers -12 = 32; Meta provisional (no dated sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered hand-trap and negation suite (Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Evenly Matched, Dark Ruler No More, Yang Zing trap)
• Strong Extra Deck boards across Synchro, Link and Xyz (Chaofeng, Lancea, Psychic End Punisher, Accel Synchro Stardust)
• Searchers and draw effects give card flow (16 searcher-text hits; Golden Bamboo Sword, Pot of Sloth)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom run at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2
• Scattered archetype base: 0% exact-name purity and 71 off-archetype copies
• Narrow starter set: Imsety at 3 copies gives only about 25% of at least one in an opening hand
• No side deck, so no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Imsety or another Horus starter must be drawn to open the Horus engine
• Ash Blossom's copy count must be cut to 2 before the list can be played legally

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, Ash Blossom at 3 copies against a limit of 2; Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0; size rules within TCG limits; Limited cards Radiant Typhoon Chant and S:P Little Knight each run at 1 copy (within limit); Archetype core group: 14 copies; Imsety, Hapi, Duamutef, Ash Blossom, Nibiru and MST at 100% usage
• Inferred: Hand-trap coverage about 57% for one or more going second; Starter reliability about 25% for Imsety in a 5-card opening hand; Interaction and resilience scores from card text; Engine conflicts across sub-archetypes
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Format fit and matchup coverage (no tournament link)
• 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; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck has no side deck, so post-side performance cannot be evaluated