Orcust Deck #774328 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Xyz boss pressure: Galatea, Enlilgirsu, Longirsu, Dingirsu and Diabellstar, built from Orcust and Mekk-Knight starters (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Azamina and Dark Magician of Destruction Fusion boards, with Sinful Spoils and Diabellstar support (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Orcust Harp Horror, Girsu, Mulcharmy Fuwalos or Diabellstar, about 85% for at least one in a 5-card hand per the 12-copy starter group) and extend into a Link or Xyz boss while holding hand traps for the opponent's turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's hand traps (about 88% for at least one) and Dominus Impulse to negate the opponent's Special Summons, then rebuild through GY-activated Orcust effects and Link Summons
• Recovery: Recur through Orcust Harp Horror and Orcust Cymbal Skeleton GY banish effects, Orcustrated Babel from the GY, and Galatea-I searches for World Legacy or Orcust monsters (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: None: the deck runs 0 side cards and the Master Duel format used here has no sideboard step

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan most of the time: the four 3-copy starters (Orcust Harp Horror, Girsu, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Diabellstar) give roughly an 85% chance of at least one in a 5-card hand (hypergeometric, Inferred), and the hand traps keep a plan alive on the opponent's turn. It converts to pressure through Link and Xyz bosses (Galatea, Enlilgirsu, Longirsu, Dingirsu) and Azamina Fusions, though no recorded boards exist, so the conversion ceiling is text-based and carries low confidence. Interaction is the deck's real strength: 11 hand traps, 12 negation-text cards and 16 removal-text cards give it breadth against an established board. The score reflects consistency, interaction and resilience on the system; it does not come from averaging card strength, and popularity earned no points because no tournament or meta-share data was supplied. Exact-name purity is only 23.6%, with Mekk-Knight, Mulcharmy, Azamina, Diabellstar and Sinful Spoils all present, which costs engine coherence and the score is docked for it.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 66.5, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Engine conflicts and low archetype purity (-3); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (-4); Meta Power null/provisional. 0.80*66.5 + 0.20*60 - 4 = 61.2, rounded to 61

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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

• Consistent starter density: four 3-copy monsters, all with GY or hand activations
• Layered interaction: 11 hand traps, Dominus Impulse, Crossout and removal text
• Link and Xyz bosses plus Galatea recursion give good closing and grind
• Extra Deck is fully used (15 slots with 11 Links)

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median are text-only inference
• Low archetype purity (23.6%) and mixed sub-archetypes weaken engine coherence
• Hand-trap-heavy list can produce dead hands going first
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Starter access depends on Orcust or Mekk-Knight monsters being drawn; the 2-copy Cymbal Skeleton and 1-copy Knightmare are thin
• Dependence on Galatea and Harp Horror for link-chain continuity

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side, no violations; Copy limits: Crossout, Foolish Burial, Maxx C and WANTED are Limited at 1; Droll and Lock Bird is Semi-Limited at 2; Hypergeometric draw values match the evidence (3-copy 0.3376 hand 5, 0.3943 hand 6; 11 hand traps at least one in 6 = 0.8762); Archetype usage stats present; 16 of 25 core cards present by the stats' own count
• Inferred: Starter access and consistency; Hand-trap and interaction quality from card text; Going-first and going-second plans; Recovery through GY recursion
• Provisional: Meta power (null without a dated sample); Matchup and format fit (D13); Side deck adaptability (D12, zero side)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference usage_statistics marks several Extra Deck cards (Galatea, I:P Masquerena, Longirsu, Enlilgirsu, Dingirsu, Galatea-I, S:P Little Knight, Knightmare Phoenix, Knightmare Mermaid) as in_this_deck=false although the cards list runs them; missing_core is therefore unreliable and was not used for scoring No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, starter or brick rates) Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample