Horus Deck #775120 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 32/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual or Fusion Summon a 3000-ATK boss (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Tearlaments Rulkallos, The Zombie Vampire) through the Light and Darkness Ritual or Tearlaments engine (Inferred); Horus follow-up through King's Sarcophagus and Imsety, with Fiendsmith Extra Deck summons as a side route (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Mind Shuffle, Light and Darkness Ritual, or Tearlaments Scream and commit to one engine; starter access is about 0.34 per 3-copy card in an opening 5 (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, and Kuriboh as hand traps, then rebuild through Tearlaments Havnis or Scheiren from the hand (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through the GY: Imsety, Duamutef, and Tearlaments GY effects can return to the field, but each depends on a different engine (Inferred)
• After siding: None: the deck runs no side deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan (Verified)

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in OCG because it runs two Forbidden cards (Charmer Quartet in Bloom and Curious, the Lightsworn Dominion), so it does not receive a normal Final Contextual score; the 32 is a theoretical, structural-only read. The main deck splits across at least four engines (Light and Darkness Ritual, Horus, Tearlaments, Fiendsmith) with only 7.3% exact Horus-name purity, so the system scores low on consistency and engine cohesion even though searchers are plentiful (P of at least one searcher in an opening 5 is about 0.95). Its strongest parts are the 3000-ATK boss and interaction density: hand traps (Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Kuriboh) and negate or removal text (Tearlaments Sulliek, Rulkallos, Predaplant, Black Chaos) help it on the board. No combo boards were recorded, so the floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inferences. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage stats show only 2 of 6 core cards present, and no score was taken from averaging the card-level scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 46, Going First ≈ 44, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: Illegal list: theoretical/structural only. (0.80*Structural 46 + 0.20*TournamentReliability 35) = 44, then context modifiers total -12 = 32 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Dense searcher text (17 copies) gives access to a starter most turns
• Multiple 3000-ATK bosses for closing games once an engine is live
• Hand traps (Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Kuriboh) and multiple negate or removal effects give layered interaction

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: two Forbidden cards run
• Four engines compete for the same hand and GY resources
• Low exact-archetype purity (7.3%) and 51 off-archetype copies
• No side deck and no post-side plan
• No combo data to confirm any line

Critical choke points

• Each 3-copy starter appears in an opening 5 only about 34% of the time, so the engine can miss on T1
• Any single Ritual, Fusion, or GY-dependent line depends on one or two specific cards

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 2 Forbidden cards run (Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Curious) and 0 legal copies; Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0, all within size rules; Archetype purity 7.3%, 51 off-archetype copies; Usage stats: 2 of 6 core cards present (33.3%); No side deck present
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and searcher probabilities; Engine conflicts and brick risk across four engines; Interaction and hand-trap quality from card text; Ceiling reaches 3000-ATK bosses through Ritual and Fusion routes
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament context)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is 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, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null