Shining Sarcophagus Deck #762501 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician-family and Extra Deck boss monsters (Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, Timaeus, Super Starslayer TY-PHON, Underworld Goddess) attacking or sweeping the board after the field is stabilised by hand traps and negations.; Shining Sarcophagus and Gandora-G / Dark Magician the Magician of Black Magic special summon lines that add board presence and removal.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dark Magician or Shining Sarcophagus searcher turn 1, search the next starter, and hold Ash Blossom or Ghost Belle as protection while developing.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru, Droll) to disrupt the opponent's first board, then extend through Dark Magician Girl or Future Silence into Extra Deck bosses.
• Recovery: Recover from hand traps and draw effects through Magician's Rod, Dark Magical Circle, Soul Servant, and Eternal Soul to rebuild a Dark Magician board.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered in this export, so no post-side plan can be assessed; any side-deck plan is unverified.

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in TCG: it runs three copies of Ash Blossom (two legal), three Magicians' Souls, two Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, a Forbidden Called by the Grave, a Forbidden Triple Tactics Talent, and two Droll (one legal), so it cannot receive a normal Final Contextual score and is capped low and labelled structural-only. The structural read is 49: the deck opens functionally through a searcher density of about 86% in a five-card hand (Inferred), and its 13 hand traps and 17 negation-text cards give it strong interaction and good going-second disruption. Its ceiling is limited by the two forbidden Dark Magician-named cards that are the core of the plan, by 27 level-0 spells and traps that dilute the engine, and by the absence of any recorded boards, so median output cannot be measured. Archetype popularity and usage stats were not counted as power, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); no_side_deck (-3). Final formula: Illegal list: theoretical 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers = 47 - 11 = 36, capped to 25 for illegality (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · 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 and starter density (Dark Magician, Future Silence, Magician's Rod, Dark Magical Circle)
• 13 hand traps and 17 negation-text cards give interaction on both turns
• Multiple Extra Deck boss options with 2800–3000 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts and Forbidden cards in the list
• No Side Deck
• Very low Shining Sarcophagus purity; many level-0 spells and tech cards dilute the engine
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician-named cards (Magicians' Souls, Dark Magician Girl, Dark Magician, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight) carry the plan; losing any to a hand trap or board break leaves few independent lines
• Shining Sarcophagus is only 5 copies, so the Sarcophagus engine is fragile

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 6 copy-limit violations and Forbidden cards present; Main 57, Extra 15, Side 0 against TCG size rules; Usage stats: 4 of 25 core cards present
• Inferred: Searcher density gives about 0.86 chance of a searcher in a 5-card opener; Hand-trap density gives about 0.81 chance of a hand trap in a 6-card opener going second; Interaction density from negation and hand-trap text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link; Median output: no recorded boards
• 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 — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no Side Deck in export — post-side plan cannot be assessed