Shining Sarcophagus Deck #765982 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• Format: duel-links

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck bosses (Underworld Goddess of the Closed World link 5, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction) reached through Shining Sarcophagus searches and Special Summon routes (Inferred); Gandora-G banish-scaling attacker and Silent Magician Zero / Silent Swordsman Zero ATK growth (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): T1 Future Silence or Shining Sarcophagus to search the next Sarcophagus-named card, then Dark Magician Girl or Gadget Trio to add a second Sarcophagus-named card and build a Link 2 or Link 5 route (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-trap first: Droll and Lock Bird or Turn Silence against the opponent's first Special Summon or activation, then Forbidden Droplet to negate effect monsters and rebuild with the Sarcophagus search chain (Inferred)
• Recovery: Searcher density (13 searcher-text cards) plus Gadget Trio and Witch of the Black Forest recover the Sarcophagus and extra-route pieces from the GY and Deck (Inferred)
• After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links is single-game with an empty side deck, so no post-side plan exists in this format

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a live searcher engine: thirteen searcher-text cards and three Shining Sarcophagus copies give about a 96 percent chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand, though a Sarcophagus specifically is only about 43 percent (Inferred from the hypergeometric table). Interaction is layered across Droll and Lock Bird, Turn Silence, Forbidden Droplet and several negate-capable Extra and Main monsters, which is why end-board and going-second scores sit above the consistency score. Conversion is limited on the Extra side: the main deck has only two Level 8 monsters (both Gandora-G), while Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord and Dark Magician of Destruction and Sanaphond require two Level 8 materials or specific Fusion materials, and Super Starslayer TY-PHON needs two Level 12 monsters that the list does not contain (Inferred). Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage stats confirm this is a real and accessible list, but no points were added for that. The score comes from consistency, interaction, and the system's ability to reach its Extra boss routes, not from averaging card scores; there are no recorded boards, so floor and median scores are Provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Stun secondary. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Single-card engine dependency (-2); Level 8 and Level 12 material gap (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-4); 0.80*60.1 + 0.20*58 - 4 = 55.7, rounded to 56

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.43 · 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

• Searcher density (13 searcher-text cards) gives a high chance of finding a Sarcophagus-named card
• Layered interaction: Droll and Lock Bird, Turn Silence, Forbidden Droplet and negate-capable monsters
• Extra Deck bosses reach 2800 to 3000 ATK and includes Link and Xyz options
• Full 30-card main and 9-card Extra, both within the Duel Links size rules

Weaknesses

• Only two Level 8 main monsters (both Gandora-G) against several Extra cards needing Level 8 materials
• No Level 12 monsters for Super Starslayer TY-PHON
• Low archetype purity (20.5 percent) with many off-archetype and situational cards
• Several dead-in-hand cards such as Gaze of Timaeus and Dark Magical Curtain

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus (three copies) gates the searcher engine and several summon routes
• Extra Deck material requirements for Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord and Dark Magician of Destruction

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 30 cards and Extra deck 9 cards are within Duel Links size rules; Photon Jumper is Semi-Limited with 2 legal copies and 1 copy run; Card text excerpts for Sarcophagus, Future Silence, Droll and Lock Bird, Turn Silence, Forbidden Droplet and the Extra Deck bosses; Usage stats show a real archetype list (28 stat rows)
• Observed: Usage statistics confirm the list is accessible; no board-level observations exist
• Inferred: Opening hand draw estimates from the hypergeometric table; Level 8 and Level 12 material gaps; Going-first and going-second plans; Interaction density and layered negation reads from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit without a dated metagame sample; Median and floor output without recorded boards
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Guide snippet is empty, so human strategic intent is unknown