Shining Sarcophagus Deck #767971 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 50 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Light and Darkness Ritual / Dark Magician ritual-fusion boards (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Master of Chaos, Dark Magician of Destruction) backed by Link and Synchro pressure; Link pressure (A Bao A Qu, Accesscode Talker, Miasma Necromancer) and Chaos Angel synchro
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Mulcharmy/Dark Magician Girl/Dark Magical Curtain searches and Shining Sarcophagus, then convert into a ritual or fusion board. No recorded line exists, so this is Inferred from card text only.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Solemn Warning to protect the first summon, then use Kuriboh and Dark Magician Girl to reach a ritual or fusion board. Inferred from text.
• Recovery: Recover through Light and Darkness Ritual, Mind Shuffle and Skull Archfiend recursion from GY and banish; Mulcharmy draw effects add card flow. Inferred.
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This list is illegal as submitted: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run three times against a Semi-Limited OCG limit of two, so the score is capped and labelled theoretical/structural only. The deck reliably opens searchers (about 94 percent chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred) and carries 6 hand traps and 7 negations, which lifts interaction and opening-hand scores. Points for conversion are limited because no recorded boards exist, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inferences. Engine coherence is the main drag: exact-name Shining Sarcophagus purity is 1.5 percent and the list mixes Mulcharmy, Dark Magician, Light and Darkness Ritual, Link and Fusion engines that compete for the same hand and GY resources. Popularity was not rewarded, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary; Toolbox noted as secondary, not blended into weights. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); engine_conflicts (-4); no_side_deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal: 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 49.6, plus modifiers (-12) = 37.6, then capped at 35 under the illegal-deck rule (theoretical/structural only). Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.1 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High searcher density: 21 searcher-text cards, P(at least one in a 5-card hand) about 0.94
• Layered interaction: 6 hand traps, 7 negation-text cards, and Solemn Warning/Ghost Ogre/Ash-style protection
• Multiple boss options at 3000+ ATK (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Master of Chaos, Dark Magician of Destruction)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: Ash Blossom is run 3 times against an OCG limit of 2
• Engine incoherence: Mulcharmy, Light and Darkness ritual, Link and Fusion pieces compete for resources; exact-name Shining Sarcophagus purity is 1.5 percent
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom over the copy limit: the list cannot be played legally until it is cut to 2 copies
• Shining Sarcophagus is a single copy, so the named engine is unreliable on its own
• Ritual summons require the Light and Darkness Ritual spell, which only 2 copies provide

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: OCG size: 50 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side (within 40-60, 0-15, 0-15); Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring: 3 copies, Semi-Limited limit 2 (over limit); Droll & Lock Bird and S:P Little Knight are Limited, 1 copy each (legal); Archetype purity: exact-name Shining Sarcophagus 1.5 percent; 64 off-archetype copies
• Observed: Archetype usage stats: Mulcharmy Fuwalos 80 percent inclusion, Dark Magical Curtain 75.6 percent, Dark Magician 62.2 percent (archetype-level, not this list's result)
• Inferred: Opening-hand searcher probability 0.944 and archetype core 0.905 (hypergeometric); Interaction density from hand traps and negation text; Combo ceiling and turn-1/turn-2 plans from card text only
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample supplied; Format fit (D13) and side-deck adaptability (D12) cannot be verified
• 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 absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or unknown Deck has no Side Deck: post-side adaptation cannot be evaluated Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample