Horus Deck #774383 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Revive Horus monsters from the GY with King's Sarcophagus (or Walls of the Imperial Tomb in the Field Zone) and close with 3000-ATK boss monsters (Imsety, Horus the Black Flame Deity) plus Lava Golem's standby damage.; Xyz and Link pressure from the Extra Deck (Number 38, Coach King Giantrainer, Knightmare Unicorn, Underworld Goddess) once the field is stable.
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Horus monster with Walls of the Imperial Tomb or set up King's Sarcophagus, then Special Summon Horus monsters from the GY and build a board while holding Canopic Protector against the opponent's responses.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Droll & Lock Bird and Nibiru as hand traps against the opponent's search or summon turn, then rebuild the Sarcophagus engine from the GY with Imsety and Duamutef.
• Recovery: King's Sarcophagus and Imsety recur Horus monsters from the GY, so a single enabler surviving a disruption is enough to rebuild board.
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links decks run no side deck (Side Deck size 0, side size range 0-9 unused), so there is no post-side plan to evaluate.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: six enablers (3 King's Sarcophagus and 3 Walls of the Imperial Tomb) give about a 70% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, which is a real but not dependable starter, and the Horus monsters it revives recur through the GY. Five hand traps (Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru, Canopic Protector and similar) and recursive Horus boss monsters support going second and recovery. Floor and ceiling cannot be measured because the evidence has no recorded boards, so the combo scores rest on card text and are kept below the level a validated combo record would support. The score does not come from Horus being a popular archetype (the usage stats only confirm the list is real), and the card scores were not averaged. The Extra Deck omits several archetype-standard Xyz cards, which lowers the Extra score and the confidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Engine redundancy (2); Conditional boss brick risk (-2); Deviation from archetype Xyz core (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural 55.3, TR 55, modifiers -2 gives 53.2)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.7 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.5 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.3 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Six enablers (3 King's Sarcophagus and 3 Walls) give about a 70% chance of an engine piece in the opening 5.
• Horus monsters recur from the GY through Sarcophagus and Imsety, so one surviving enabler can rebuild the board.
• Five hand-trap or tech cards provide disruption on the opponent's turn.
• Compact main: 14 distinct names with 7 three-of slots and 30 cards exactly.

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be measured.
• Lava Golem x3 is conditional and can be a dead card in hand.
• Extra Deck omits the archetype-standard Xyz core (Number 90, Dingirsu, Number 68), reducing support for the boss plan.
• Only 17.9% exact-name Horus purity; 22 generic cards dilute the engine.

Critical choke points

• Engine start depends on one of 6 enablers (Sarcophagus or Walls) plus a Horus monster; a hand with an enabler but no Horus monster stalls.
• Hand traps are the only going-second interaction; without them the going-second board has little disruption.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in duel-links: 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side; Coach King Giantrainer at 1 copy (Limited, legal count 1).; Card text for all 25 distinct cards from the evidence export.; Archetype usage stats: 9 of 18 core cards present; Number 90, Dingirsu, Number 68 and Dark Magician of Destruction (absent DMoD shows as present) vary by build.
• Inferred: Engine consistency: P(>=1 enabler in 5) = 0.70 and 0.77 going second (hypergeometric).; Brick risk: about 0.30 of 5-card hands lack an enabler.; Interaction density and going-second disruption from hand-trap text.; Offensive closing from Horus 3000-ATK bosses and Lava Golem standby damage.
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link.; D12 side adaptability: no side deck in Duel Links; neutral baseline.
• 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 for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or starter rates guide snippet is empty ( ) with section_count 0: no strategic guide text no Duel Links side deck exists: post-side plan is not applicable Meta Power is provisional: no dated metagame sample