Horus Deck #774994 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Midrange
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Large Horus or Dark Magician-family monster (Imsety, Glory of Horus at 3000 ATK; Dark Magician of Destruction at 2800 ATK) reached through Fairy Tail, Charmer and Spellbook searches; Link and Fusion beatsticks (Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon, Teller of Fairy Tails, Weaver of Fairy Tails)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search and summon through Fairy Tail, Spellbook and Charmer searchers (Shining Sarcophagus, Familiar-Possessed, Dark Magician) toward a Link or Fusion finisher; no recorded boards to confirm the sequence
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring x2, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler) to answer the opponent's first summon, then a control-by-stealing follow-up through the Charmer flip monsters
• Recovery: Spellbook and Fairy Tail searchers recur cards from the Deck and GY, and Imsety can be Special Summoned from the GY only while King's Sarcophagus is face-up, which is a single copy
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck has no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The list is scored as a structural read only, because it is Illegal: three Forbidden cards (Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Cross-Sheep) are over the copy limit, so it does not receive a normal final score. The deck mixes at least five sub-archetypes (Fairy Tail, Spellbook, Charmer, Possessed, Dark Magician) with only 4% exact-name Horus purity, so its engine coherence is weak. Its searcher density (33 searcher-text cards, about 98% to find at least one in a 5-card hand) and 5 hand traps give it a plausible opening and going-second interruption package. Floor and median output cannot be assessed because no combos were recorded, and the Horus core cards Hapi and The Zombie Vampire are absent. The score comes from consistency, interaction and the Toolbox profile on the system, not from averaging card scores or from the archetype's popularity.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 42, Going First ≈ 35, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); illegal cap (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(42) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 40.6; banlist modifier -8 gives 32.6; capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (structural-only evaluation)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.23 · 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

• Heavy searcher density (33 cards) that makes most hands functional
• Five hand traps plus Droll & Lock Bird and Effect Veiler for interaction on the opponent's turn
• High-ATK closers (Imsety 3000, Dark Magician of Destruction 2800, Perfectron 5000)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: three Forbidden cards over the copy limit
• Five sub-archetypes with 4% exact-name Horus purity give weak engine coherence
• No Side Deck (0 cards), so no post-side plan
• No recorded combos, so floor and median output cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus (1 copy) gates the Imsety GY route
• The Extra Deck's Forbidden cards cannot be played in OCG as built

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: three Forbidden cards over the copy limit; Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0 within size rules; Card stats and text for listed cards; Imsety 3000 ATK, Perfectron 5000 ATK, Dark Magician of Destruction 2800 ATK
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency (about 0.23 for Imsety, 0.99 for a searcher); Interaction density from 5 hand traps and 10 negation-text cards; Going-second value from hand traps and Charmer control
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN No Side Deck: post-side performance cannot be assessed usage statistics marks S:P Little Knight as not in this deck, but the Extra Deck list contains it (1 copy); the stats may count Main Deck only Hapi, Guidance of Horus and The Zombie Vampire (core stats) are absent from the list Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied