Shining Sarcophagus Deck #765174 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±9 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, Toolbox
• Format: duel-links

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Recurring Dark Magician / Gandora-G boss pressure from the Extra Deck, enabled by Shining Sarcophagus and searched by the archetype searchers; Extra Deck link, xyz and synchro monsters (Chaos Angel, Knightmare Phoenix, S:P Little Knight) that convert a live board into pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a searcher (Future Silence, Dark Magician Girl or Gadget Trio) to fetch Shining Sarcophagus, then play the Sarcophagus and extend into a boss monster while holding Silent Magician Zero or Turn Silence for the opponent's response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird or Nibiru as a hand trap, then negate or disrupt the opponent's first board with Silent Magician Zero, Silent Swordsman Zero or Turn Silence and rebuild through the searchers
• Recovery: Search the Sarcophagus again through Future Silence, Dark Magician Girl or Gadget Trio, since the searchers are the main recovery path
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no side deck in this export (side_count 0)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens into a searcher on turn 1: 12 searcher-text copies give a roughly 0.94 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, so the Shining Sarcophagus can usually be reached. Its functional core is a set of negations (Silent Magician Zero, Silent Swordsman Zero, Turn Silence, Forbidden Droplet) plus two hand traps, which gives moderate interaction breadth. The ceiling is set by high-ATK Extra Deck bosses, but no recorded boards exist, so the conversion and median scores rest on text reads and are Inferred. Archetype purity is only 20.5% (8 of 39 archetype-tagged copies share the exact name), which splits the engine and weakens coherence, and the score is reduced for that. Popularity and usage statistics were not counted as power, and the card scores were not averaged into the result.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Control secondary; weights from the Midrange profile. Structural ≈ 56.6, Going First ≈ 59, Going Second ≈ 57, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: engine dilution / engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; 0.80*56.6 + 0.20*58 = 56.8, minus 2 = 55)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.31 · 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

• Strong searcher density (12 copies) gives reliable access to the engine card
• Two negation effects in the Main Deck and two hand traps give interaction on both turns
• Legal in format with clean size and copy limits (Verified)

Weaknesses

• Low archetype purity (20.5%) spreads the engine across several sub-archetypes
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be measured
• Several negations are conditional on the Shining Sarcophagus being on the field

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus (2 copies): many lines need it on the field, and it has a 0.31 chance in an opening hand
• Silent Magician Zero and Turn Silence as the main negation package

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Legal, 30 main and 9 extra, within Duel Links size rules; Card text and banlist status for every resolved card; Searcher count of 12 and negation/hand-trap counts from role tags; Usage statistics show a standard archetype core
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and searcher probabilities; Conversion, median and interaction-breadth estimates from text; Structural and going-first/second scores
• Provisional: Meta power (null); Matchup and side-deck fit; Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: meta share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchups, brick or starter rates Usage statistics mark the Extra Deck cards (Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Knightmare Phoenix, Galaxy-Eyes, Chaos Angel and others) as in_this_deck false, but the card list includes them in the extra zone; the usage matcher appears to have checked only the Main Deck, so the core-coverage figures are unreliable Guide snippet is empty ( ) with no sections Meta power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample