Orcust Deck #774340 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-climb into Extra Deck boss monsters (Zombie Vampire 3000 ATK, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon 3000 ATK, Dark Magician of Destruction 2800 ATK, Dingirsu 2600 ATK) supported by Orcust link engine; Hand-trap protected board presence with Orcust recursion from GY
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Harp Horror, Girsu or Dark Magician Girl starter, search via Shining Sarcophagus, Future Silence or Orcustrated Babel, then Link Summon Galatea or Galatea-I toward a larger Link or Xyz boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse or Droll and Lock Bird against the opponent's first Special Summon or search, then rebuild the Orcust engine from the GY
• Recovery: GY-triggered Orcust effects (Harp Horror, Cymbal Skeleton, Knightmare, Galatea-I) and World Legacy World Wand to re-Special Summon a second body
• After siding: No Side Deck is run (side 0), so no post-side plan exists in this export; Master Duel side rules are not evidenced

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional Orcust starter (Harp Horror, Girsu and Dark Magician Girl each have about a 34 percent chance of appearing in a 5-card opening hand, and a searcher-text card is present in about 85 percent of opening hands, all Inferred from hypergeometric odds). It converts that starter into Link and Xyz boards that can reach 2600 to 3000 ATK, but the conversion ceiling and median output are text-inferred only because no recorded boards exist. Eight hand traps and about twelve negation effects give it real interruption resilience and going-second interaction. The score is driven by consistency, median output and interaction on the system as a whole; the popularity of Orcust and the individual card scores were not averaged in. Archetype purity is only 21.8 percent exact-name, so engine coherence across Mekk-Knight, Knightmare, Code Talker and Magician sub-archetypes costs points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 61.3, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: Multi-archetype engine dilution (-2); Hard-garnet burden (-1); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*61.3 + 0.20*56 - 4 = 56.3

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

• Full legal list with all restricted cards at or below legal copies
• Layered interaction: 8 hand traps plus about 12 negation-text cards
• Multiple Extra Deck bosses at 2600 to 3000 ATK
• Searcher density gives high chance of a live starter

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so combo ceiling and median are text-only
• Low exact-name archetype purity (21.8 percent) means engine dilution
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Hand-trap-heavy Main Deck can brick when going first

Critical choke points

• Orcust Harp Horror, Girsu and DMG as the sole starters; loss of these removes the main engine
• Link Summon through Galatea or Galatea-I is the route to bosses; a Link-fed board can be hit by one negate or hand trap

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status and 40/15/0 sizes; Restricted copy counts within legal limits; Archetype purity 21.8 percent exact-name; Extra Deck composition 11 Link, 2 Fusion, 2 Xyz
• Inferred: Starter probabilities 0.34 and searcher group 0.85 (hypergeometric); Interaction density and negate coverage from card text; Combo ceiling and floor from text only
• Provisional: Meta Power; Matchup and format fit; Side deck adaptability
• 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 and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample usage_statistics in_this_deck flags are false for Extra Deck cards that are present in the card list (Galatea, Galatea-I, Longirsu, Dingirsu, Enlilgirsu, Knightmare Phoenix, S:P Little Knight, I:P Masquerena); these were ignored for core-coverage claims no side deck, so D12 is scored without post-side evidence