Orcust Deck #774256 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Xyz pressure from the Orcust Link engine (Galatea, Dingirsu, Longirsu, Enlilgirsu) using DARK Machine recursion from the Deck and GY; Mitsurugi Ritual Dragon-style Reptile ritual boards (Murakumo 3200 ATK, Habakiri 2400 ATK) as a splash finisher when Orcust monsters are not enough
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Orcust monsters and Ash Blossom / Droll & Lock Bird for hand interaction, reach a Link Summon with Galatea or Dingirsu, then use Orcust Harp Horror or Cymbal Skeleton GY effects to restart the engine while holding Orcust Crescendo for a negate
• Turn 2 (going second): Lead with Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, or Ash Blossom to answer the opponent's first summon, then rebuild the Link board through Orcust Harp Horror and Galatea; the deck has no side-deck plan, so hand-trap density is the second-turn answer
• Recovery: Recycle from the GY through Orcust Harp Horror, Orcust Cymbal Skeleton, and Galatea-I (returns Orcustrated Babel or a World Legacy monster), and rebuild the Link line from banished DARK Machines
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot change its configuration between games

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional Orcust engine: the 26-copy Orcust core has a near-certain chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand (proxy 0.997, Inferred), and the three Orcust Harp Horror, Girsu, and Cymbal Skeleton copies give repeatable GY and Deck recursion. It converts that into Link and Xyz boards through a 15-card Extra Deck that spans Galatea, Dingirsu, Enlilgirsu, and Longirsu, so the score comes from the system: Link-chain redundancy, recursion, and six hand traps working together, not from averaging individual card powers. The deck survives one interruption through Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, and Orcust Crescendo, but it has 42 off-archetype copies (Mitsurugi, Dominus, Forbidden, Mulcharmy, and generic cards) that dilute the engine and add brick risk, and the empty side deck leaves no post-side adjustment. Popularity and guide coverage (six Vietnamese guides) confirm the list is real and accessible but did not earn points by themselves, and no combo, win-rate, or tournament data was supplied, so the combo and matchup scores are Inferred from text and probability.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary with Midrange secondary; Combo weight profile used as-is. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 63, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: engine dilution from off-archetype splash (-3); no side deck (-2); core density (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 59.9, TR 55, modifiers -3 => 56

Probability & combo summary

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

Strengths

• 26-copy Orcust core gives near-certain access on turn one (Inferred)
• Six hand traps plus Orcust Crescendo give layered negation (Inferred from text)
• Large Link and Xyz Extra Deck with recursion routes from GY and banish

Weaknesses

• No side deck: no post-side plan (Verified)
• 42 off-archetype copies dilute the engine and add brick risk (Verified composition)
• No recorded combo boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only (Verified data gap)

Critical choke points

• Galatea or Galatea-I as the first Link Summon: the chain depends on at least one Orcust Link monster hitting the field
• Droll & Lock Bird and Ash Blossom as the only hand-trap answers to an opposing first summon
• Mitsurugi ritual pieces (Pre-Preparation, Mitsurugi Ritual, Mirror) are a fragile secondary route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 and Extra 15 are within master-duel size rules; Copy limits are satisfied: 1-copy Limited cards are at 1, Semi-Limited cards are at 2; 26-copy Orcust core and 42 off-archetype copies from archetype_purity; Extra-Deck breakdown 11 Link and 4 Xyz
• Observed: Usage stats: Orcust core inclusion rates (Ash, Girsu, Harp Horror, Mulcharmy at 79% to 100%); Six guides for the archetype exist in the YGOVN corpus
• Inferred: Engine accessibility from the hypergeometric proxy (0.997); Hand-trap and interaction density from text_role_hints; Going-first and going-second scores from the structural profile; Closing power from Link ATK values
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13 at 50); Tournament reliability (no tournament data)
• 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, brick, and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck flags disagree with the cards list for several Extra Deck cards (Knightmare Phoenix, Galatea-I, Longirsu, I:P Masquerena, Knightmare Mermaid, Enlilgirsu) — the cards list was used as the source of truth side_count is 0, so no side-deck data exists for D12