Shining Sarcophagus Deck #768655 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Tempo
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Shining Sarcophagus engine (Gadget Trio, Dark Magician Girl, Future Silence, Ties That Bind) builds a board that Special Summons Gandora-G, Dark Magician the Magician of Black Magic and Dark Magician, the Pharaoh's Servant, then links or fuses into Extra Deck closers such as Chaos Angel, Master of Chaos, Dark Magician of Destruction and Underworld Goddess; Hand-trap and negation backed grind: Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre and Droll & Lock Bird protect the engine while Silent Magician Zero and Silent Swordsman Zero add ATK pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Normal Summon Gadget Trio or Dark Magician Girl, search Shining Sarcophagus, Set or activate Future Silence or Ties That Bind to put the Sarcophagus on the field, then Special Summon Gandora-G or Black Magic Dark Magician and begin Link or Fusion Summoning from the Extra Deck
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler and Droll & Lock Bird in hand to disrupt the opponent's starter, then rebuild the Sarcophagus engine on the following turn using the remaining searchers
• Recovery: Ghost Belle and Ghost Ogre recover from the GY as Tuners, Future Silence and Gadget Trio re-search the Sarcophagus, and Dark Magician Girl or Gadget Trio recover the engine after a board wipe
• After siding: Not evidenced: the deck runs an empty Side Deck (0 of 15 slots), so there is no post-side plan in the list

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its engine through several independent searchers: Gadget Trio, Dark Magician Girl and Future Silence each reach Shining Sarcophagus, and the hypergeometric estimate for at least one searcher in a going-first hand is about 0.90, although the Sarcophagus itself is only about 0.34 (Inferred). Its interaction package is broad, with eleven negation-text cards and eight hand traps covering both the starter and the endboard, which is why D7 and D5 score above the median. Conversion is scored from the Extra Deck ceiling (Chaos Angel, Master of Chaos, Dark Magician of Destruction, Underworld Goddess) rather than from any recorded board, because the export has zero combos, so the floor and median are low-confidence. The deck earns no points for its archetype's popularity (the core is 38.9 percent present in the usage sample) and its score is not an average of card scores; the empty Side Deck and absent meta data hold it back.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 64.6, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: empty side deck (-3); single-starter dependence (-2); limited-status exposure (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: Final = 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*64.6 + 0.20*56 - 5 = 57.9, rounded to 58

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Redundant searchers (Gadget Trio, Dark Magician Girl, Future Silence) reach the same engine piece
• Eight hand traps and eleven negation-text cards cover both going-first and going-second disruption
• Strong Extra Deck closers at 2800 to 3500 ATK with broad Link access
• Legal list: all Limited and Semi-Limited cards are at their legal copy limits

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation in a best-of-3 match
• Only 18.2 percent exact-name archetype purity; much of the deck is staple or sub-archetype support
• No recorded combo boards, so ceiling and median output rest on text inference
• Several cards only function while Shining Sarcophagus is already on the field

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus must be live for Gandora-G, Ghost cards and Stronghold to function; only 3 copies exist
• A single opposing hand trap or floodgate aimed at the Sarcophagus can stall the engine on turn 1 (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; all four restricted cards at legal copy limits under the OCG ban list; Card text for the engine, hand traps, negation and Extra Deck closers as read from description excerpts; Archetype core present at 38.9 percent of the usage sample (usage statistic, not power)
• Inferred: Engine accessibility from hypergeometric odds (0.34 starter, 0.90 searcher group); Interaction density and resilience from card-text roles; Going-second hand-trap coverage (0.76); Conversion ceiling from Extra Deck payoffs read from text
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (D13), since no dated meta sample or tournament link exists; Meta Power is null
• 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 Side Deck is empty: no post-side composition to score D12 against Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied