Shining Sarcophagus Deck #769749 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Link and Fusion boards (Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon, Teller/Weaver of Fairy Tails, Charmers of the Grand Circle) built from searched Fairy Tail, Charmer and Possessed starters; the Forbidden Extra Deck cards cannot be used in this list.; Dark Magician line (Dark Magician, Dark Magician the Magician of Black Magic, Dark Magician of Destruction is absent) and Quintet Magician as a late-game body.
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Spellbook or Shining Sarcophagus card, Normal Summon a Spellcaster starter (Fairy Tail - Matchgiru, Mulcharmy Fuwalos or Spellbook Magician of Prophecy) to chain searches, then build a Link board. Interaction is held back for the opponent's turn.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Maxx "C" and Droll & Lock Bird to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Special Summon searches. The hand-trap count is the main reason this plan exists.
• Recovery: Recycle through the GY with Charmer and Possessed Special Summon effects, Dark Magical Curtain, and the Fairy Tail Ball search. This depends on the Extra Deck, which is only partly legal here.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This list cannot receive a normal score: three Forbidden cards (Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Cross-Sheep) are run at full copies, so it is capped low and the score is theoretical and structural only. Its strongest structural feature is access: 33 searcher-text cards give a near-certain (about 0.985) chance of at least one searcher in the opening 5, so it can usually open a functional first turn. The problem is coherence: only one copy is exact-name Shining Sarcophagus, and about 74 of 75 archetype-tagged copies belong to other sub-archetypes (Fairy Tail, Spellbook, Charmer, Dark Magician, Possessed), which weakens engine repetition and raises the brick risk. The deck has 7 hand traps and 12 negation-text cards, so it has real interaction, but it has no combo boards in the export, so its floor, median and ceiling are inferred from text only. The score comes from consistency, interaction and the system as a whole, not from averaging card scores, and popularity was not credited.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 43, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); engine conflicts (-5). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: raw 0.80*Structural(42.75) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 42.2, then modifiers -17, capped to 25 (theoretical/structural only; Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.22 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher text (33 cards), so a 5-card opening almost always contains a search
• Seven hand traps and 12 negation-text cards give layered interaction on both turns
• Real Extra Deck coverage across Link, Fusion and XYZ with several strong Link boards (Perfectron, Quintet Magician)

Weaknesses

• Three Forbidden cards are run, so the list is illegal in OCG and cannot receive a normal score
• Very low archetype coherence (1.3% exact-name purity, 74 off-archetype copies)
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• No combo data, so the combo ceiling and floor cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• The Extra Deck depends on Fusion and Link starters that are partly Forbidden or Limited, which removes some of the boards
• Limited Maxx "C", Droll & Lock Bird and Perfectron each restrict a single copy, so the interaction and closing power cannot be replaced by copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 3 Forbidden cards at full copies; Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0; banlist statuses of the Limited and Semi-Limited cards; Card text for searchers, hand traps and removal as listed in the evidence; Archetype purity of 1.3% exact-name, from composition
• Inferred: Opening consistency from the hypergeometric probabilities (searcher ≈ 0.985, core ≈ 0.776); Interaction quality from hand-trap and negation text; Going-first and going-second estimates from card text only
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample, no tournament link)
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or OTK rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck, so no post-side evidence