Orcust Deck #774291 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 63/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox, Mechanic: Link/Fusion/Xyz
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 46 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Orcust Link-chain engine into large Link/Xyz/Fusion boards (Galatea, Longirsu, Enlilgirsu, Dingirsu, D/D/D Caesar, Dark Magician of Destruction); Fiendsmith's Lacrima/Requiem pressure and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon direct damage from destroyed monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Deck-activated starter (Orcust Harp Horror, Girsu, Fiendsmith Engraver, Mulcharmy Fuwalos), use Orcust GY/Deck effects to reach a Link-2 or Link-3 engine (Galatea-I, Galatea, Longirsu), then extend into a 2600+ ATK boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Forbidden Droplet and Crossout Designator to strip the opponent's interaction, then rebuild through Mulcharmy Fuwalos draw and GY-activated Orcust monsters
• Recovery: Re-use GY-activated effects (Orcust Harp Horror, Orcust Cymbal Skeleton, Orcust Knightmare, Fiendsmith Lacrima), recover Orcustrated Babel from GY, and draw through Mulcharmy Fuwalos
• After siding: Not available: the deck runs 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no evidence-backed post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an Orcust starter: P(at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.98 across 23 core copies, and P(at least one searcher-text card) is about 0.90 (Inferred from hypergeometric draws). Its engine is redundant, with three Orcust starters at three copies each and several GY-activated effects, which lets it recover from one disruption. Interaction is layered: Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Forbidden Droplet, Crossout Designator and Orcust Crescendo cover both hand and board, and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon and NT8000 add end-board removal. The score is driven by consistency, median-independent resilience and endboard interaction on the system; it is not based on Orcust's popularity (archetype usage stats only confirm the core is real) and not on averaging the individual card scores. There are no recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and floor are text-only inferences, and the deck has no side deck, which caps its post-side score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo profile used unchanged as primary; Midrange recorded as secondary context only, not blended into the weights. Structural ≈ 68.5, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Engine conflict (-3); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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

• Redundant Orcust starters at 3 copies each with GY-activated effects
• Layered hand traps and negation covering both going-first and going-second turns
• Strong recursion and draw through Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Orcustrated Babel
• High-ATK Link and Xyz end-boards with control and removal text

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Several engines (Orcust, Fiendsmith, Kashtira, Knightmare) compete for the same 46 slots
• Heavy dependence on Limited and Semi-Limited cards (Maxx C, Foolish Burial, Crossout Designator, Droll, Kashtira Unicorn)
• No recorded boards, so combo conversion is unverified

Critical choke points

• Orcust Harp Horror and Girsu as the entry points into the Link engine
• Galatea-I and Galatea as the only Link-2 routes that reach the big Link monsters
• Hand-trap coverage (Ash Blossom, Droll, Maxx C) as the only early interruption

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status in Master Duel: Crossout Designator, Foolish Burial and Maxx C at Limited 1; Droll & Lock Bird and Kashtira Unicorn at Semi-Limited 2; Main 46 and Extra 15 counts within size rules; 0 Side Deck; Card text for all 46 Main and 15 Extra cards from evidence; Usage stat: Orcust core 23 copies across 25 core cards
• Observed: Guides for Orcust/Fiendsmith exist (6 guides), noting the two-body full-combo pattern
• Inferred: P(at least one starter in 5-card opening hand) = 0.976 (hypergeometric); Interaction density and resilience from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates; Combo ceiling from text only (no recorded boards)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13); Tournament reliability
• 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, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null; deck name not available for the writeup