Shining Sarcophagus Deck #765989 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

30 Main, 9 Extra, incl. Silent Magician Zero x3, Future Silence x3, Dark Magician Girl the Magician's Apprentice x2 - Skill: Light the Way to the Future. Created Oct 15, 2026 by YGO Mod.

Created by: YGO Mod (20517634)

Created On: 10/15/2026

Official AI Deck Power Analysis

MidrangeConfidence: LowEvaluated Oct 16, 2026

51± 8/ 100

Power Score

Structural 54

Reliability 55

Going First 50

Going Second 55

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

Overall score	Value
Structural Deck Power	54
Going First	50
Going Second	55
Meta Power	provisional
Tournament Reliability	55

Primary strategy: Midrange
Secondary strategies: Toolbox
Format: duel-links

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

Win condition: Gandora-G and Dark Magician / Dark Magician Girl beatdown and recursion, backed by Chaos Angel and the Link/Xyz/Synchro Extra Deck pieces that are present; Gaze of Timaeus fusion-style board removal into a Red-Eyes or Dark Magician Fusion when the Fusion Monsters are on hand, though the Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon and Dark Magician of Destruction are not in this list
Turn 1 (going first): Open a Shining Sarcophagus or a searcher (Future Silence, Gadget Trio, Dark Magician Girl), search the Sarcophagus, and build a board with Silent Magician Zero or Dark Magician as the negating body (Inferred)
Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Droll and Lock Bird, Nibiru) and negates (Silent Swordsman Zero, Turn Silence, Silent Magician Zero) to slow the opponent, then convert through Gandora-G (Inferred)
Recovery: Recover through Witch of the Black Forest, Gadget Trio searches and Dark Magical Curtain Special Summons; Gandora-G recursion is text-only (Inferred)
After siding: Not applicable: Duel Links has no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional starter only about one time in three: Shining Sarcophagus has two copies and P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.31, but twelve searcher-text cards lift P(at least one searcher) to about 0.94, so the engine is reachable through a search rather than the opening hand. Conversion is scored from card text, not recorded boards, because the export has no combos and no tournament data; the ceiling is moderate because Gandora-G and Chaos Angel carry the pressure while seven standard archetype Extra Deck cards (Masquerena, Underworld Goddess, Sanaphond, Galaxy-Eyes, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Knightmare Phoenix) are absent. Survival comes from several negate effects (Silent Magician Zero, Silent Swordsman Zero, Turn Silence) and two hand traps, which is a real but untested resilience story. The score was not raised by Shining Sarcophagus popularity (100% of the archetype core list present in usage stats is not matched by this list) and it was not built by averaging the individual card scores; it reflects the system as a whole.

Dimension scores

#	Dimension	Score	Evidence
D1	Engine Accessibility & Consistency	60	P(at least one Shining Sarcophagus in hand of 5) is about 0.31 with 2 copies; searcher-text group P(at least one) about 0.94 across 12 copies (Inferred)
D2	Opening-Hand Quality & Brick Management	55	Eight singleton-heavy main slots and 12 searchers keep hands functional, but only 2 hand traps and 2 Sarcophagus copies leave some dead hands (Inferred)
D3	Combo Conversion & Ceiling	58	No recorded combos; ceiling read from text: Gandora-G, Chaos Angel and Gaze of Timaeus give real pressure but several standard Extra Deck payoffs are absent (Inferred)
D4	Combo Floor & Median Output	45	No combo median or power distribution in the export; median is a provisional guess from the engine structure (Provisional)
D5	Interruption Resilience & Route Redundancy	58	Three negate-capable monsters/spells and two hand traps give multiple independent answers, but the Sarcophagus engine is only 2 copies deep (Inferred)
D6	Resource Economy, Recovery & Grind	55	Searchers and Witch of the Black Forest recycle resources, but no regeneration data or recorded boards exist (Inferred)
D7	End-Board & Interaction Quality	55	Turn Silence x2, Forbidden Droplet and Photon Jumper give layered interaction by text; no end-board observations in the export (Inferred)
D8	Going-Second & Board-Breaking Power	55	Going-second value rests on two hand traps and Gandora-G; no going-second split exists in the data (Inferred)
D9	Offensive Pressure & Closing Power	55	Gandora-G (+300 ATK per banished card) and Chaos Angel (3500 ATK) provide closing power; no end-board or damage data (Inferred)
D10	Main Deck Efficiency & Flexibility	50	Full 30-card main deck with exact-name archetype purity of only 20.5% (8 of 39 copies); many generic and splash cards reduce coherence (Verified)
D11	Extra Deck Efficiency & Coverage	45	Nine Extra Deck slots spread across link, xyz, synchro and fusion, but seven standard archetype Extra Deck cards are missing from the list (Verified)
D12	Side Deck Adaptability	40	Duel Links has no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0), so post-side adaptability cannot be measured (Provisional)
D13	Matchup Coverage & Format Fit	45	No tournament link and no dated meta sample; archetype meta share is absent so the format-fit score is provisional (Provisional)
D14	Pilotability & Error Tolerance	60	Multiple once-per-turn effects and a sizeable Extra Deck require several decision points per turn, though no step-by-step combos are recorded (Inferred)

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: missing archetype Extra Deck core (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

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

Searcher density (12 cards) makes the Sarcophagus engine reachable most games
Multiple negate effects and two hand traps give layered interaction
Legal, full 30/9 build with no copy-limit violations

Weaknesses

Only two Shining Sarcophagus copies, so the engine is fragile when the searches miss
Seven standard archetype Extra Deck cards are absent
Low exact-name archetype purity (20.5%) suggests a splash-heavy list

Critical choke points

Shining Sarcophagus (2 copies) is the engine; without it or a searcher the deck has little board presence

Recommended changes

Priority	Remove	Add	Reason
1	One off-archetype splash card	A second Shining Sarcophagus-adjacent Extra Deck piece from the archetype core (for example Number 90 or Sanaphond)	Restores Extra Deck coverage and engine coherence; the archetype core shows these cards at 100% inclusion

Evidence & confidence

Verified: Legal status, main 30 and extra 9 sizes, and copy limits all pass; Exact-name archetype purity of 20.5% (8 of 39 copies); Seven standard archetype core Extra Deck cards absent from the list
Inferred: Starter and searcher probabilities from the hypergeometric draw table; Negate and hand-trap resilience read from card text; Going-first and going-second plans from text and composition
Provisional: Median combo output and format fit, since no combos or tournament data exist; Side-deck adaptability, since Duel Links has no Side Deck
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; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied guide snippet is empty (section_count 0), so the human strategic intent is unavailable

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