Silent Magician Deck #763127 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 50 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician-named boss monsters (Dark Magician of Destruction x2, Dark Magician the Magician of Black Magic, Dark Magician Pharaoh's Servant x2, Timaeus) enabled by a Shining Sarcophagus engine; Gandora-G (Special Summoned from hand while Shining Sarcophagus is controlled) and Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon (5000 ATK Link, Limited)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search Shining Sarcophagus or a Sarcophagus-mentioning monster via Future Silence, Gadget Trio or Sarcophagus itself, then convert with Ties That Bind or Gandora-G from hand (text-based, Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C and Droll & Lock Bird to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Sarcophagus searches (Inferred)
• Recovery: Searcher density (18 copies, about 90 percent to have one in an opening 5) should restart the Sarcophagus engine after a single interruption (Inferred)
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot be adjusted between games in this export

Why it scores here

The deck's structure is a Shining Sarcophagus engine supported by 18 searcher-text cards (about 90 percent chance of at least one in an opening 5, Inferred), which gives it a reasonable chance of going live on turns 1 and 2. Its interaction suite is the strongest part of the system: 7 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards and 13 removal-text cards, which earns the high D7 score on the system level (Inferred semantic read). The closing power comes from Dark Magician-named bosses and Timaeus, which lift D9 but cannot be scored as a proven ceiling because no recorded boards exist. The deck is Illegal as built: four Forbidden cards are run in violation of the copy limit, and there is no Side Deck, so the score is capped at 35 and labelled theoretical or structural only. Popularity and archetype usage do not earn points here, and the score is not an average of individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59.2, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); Engine conflict (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame, so Meta is provisional: 0.80*Structural(59.2) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(52) + ContextModifiers(-10) = 47.7, then the Illegal cap applies and the final score is set to 35 (theoretical/structural only, not a normal Final Contextual score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.24 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher suite (18 copies) into the Shining Sarcophagus engine
• Heavy interaction: 7 hand traps, 11 negation-text and 13 removal-text cards
• High-ATK Dark Magician-named bosses and Timaeus in the Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: four Forbidden copies and no Side Deck
• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median are unverified
• Low exact-name archetype purity (1.5 percent) and many generic or tech slots
• Difficult multi-step sequencing for the pilot

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus must be on the field for Ties That Bind, Gandora-G and Archfiend's Advent conditions
• Going-first lines depend on a searcher reaching the hand, with 9.5 percent chance of none in opening 5

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal with four Forbidden copies; Banlist statuses for all restricted cards; Main 50 and Extra 15 within size rules; Card stats and copy counts from the evidence; Usage statistics: 6 of 14 core cards present
• Observed: Usage statistics show archetype core inclusion, with 42.9 percent core presence
• Inferred: Searcher and archetype-core hypergeometric odds; Hand-trap odds going second (61.6 percent); Interaction quality from card text; Going-first and going-second power components; Engine coherence from purity and sub-archetype spread
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13); Side deck adaptability (D12) because no Side Deck exists
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup, brick, starter and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck registered for an OCG best-of-3 deck