Shining Sarcophagus Deck #769926 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 44 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck summons from Dark Magician / Shining Sarcophagus engine (Fusion, Link, Xyz) into large boards, with Egyptian God and Red-Eyes beaters as closers; Egyptian God monsters (Obelisk, Slifer, Winged Dragon of Ra) as a single high-ATK finisher
• Turn 1 (going first): Search and summon through Shining Sarcophagus and Dark Magician Girl, then fuse or link into a large board; relies on Forbidden cards for interaction and extra pressure, which are not legal in this format
• Turn 2 (going second): Droll & Lock Bird and Dark Magical Curtain give a partial answer to the opponent's first turn; the Egyptian God and Dark Magician summons provide the threat, but no legal Side Deck exists to adjust
• Recovery: Searchers (16 copies) and Dark Magician redundancy provide repeated access, but there is no recorded line to confirm recovery after a broken board
• After siding: Not evaluable: the Side Deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in OCG as submitted: three Forbidden Magicians' Souls, two Forbidden Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, and one Forbidden Number 42 are run, the Extra Deck holds 16 cards against a limit of 15, and the Side Deck is empty. Under the rubric, that means the evaluation is structural-only and capped at 20. Within that read, the deck has a reasonable engine core: 16 searchers and 12 archetype-core copies give about an 81% chance of at least one core card in the opening five (Inferred), with Dark Magician redundancy supporting continuation after disruption. Conversion is hard to confirm because no recorded combos exist, and the 3.3% exact-archetype purity means much of the 44-card Main Deck is off-theme. The score was not built by averaging card scores, and archetype popularity did not earn points. The lack of a Side Deck and of any tournament or matchup data pulls both the reliability and format-fit reads down.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 35, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal list: structural-only read. Pre-cap 0.80*47 + 0.20*35 = 44.6, minus 12 banlist-exposure modifier = 32.6, capped at 20 per the Illegal rule (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.22 · 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

• 16 searcher-text cards and a 12-copy archetype core give high access to engine pieces (Inferred)
• Layered negation and Egyptian God-based interaction text (Inferred)
• Large Extra Deck of strong Fusion, Link and Xyz finishers (Verified cards)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: three Forbidden cards run, Extra Deck over limit by one, and an unresolved passcode (Verified)
• No Side Deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation (Verified)
• Only 3.3% exact-archetype purity; many off-theme copies dilute the engine (Verified count, Inferred effect)
• No recorded combos or matchup data; the score rests on inference (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus is only 2 copies; the opening-hand chance of having it is about 22% (Inferred)
• Both Forbidden Red-Eyes and Magicians' Souls engine pieces are illegal in this list, so the intended engine cannot run as built (Verified)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Forbidden copy violations: Magicians' Souls x3, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon x2, Number 42 x1 (legal copies 0); Extra Deck count 16 vs OCG max 15; Side Deck count 0; Main count 44 within 40-60; Droll & Lock Bird and Harpie's Feather Duster are Limited with 1 legal copy and 1 run each (legal); Super Polymerization Semi-Limited with 2 legal copies and 2 run (legal); Exact-archetype purity 3.3% (2 of 60 copies)
• Inferred: At least one Shining Sarcophagus in opening 5 ≈ 0.22; Archetype-core P(≥1 in opening 5) ≈ 0.81; Interaction density from negation and removal text; Structural score 47 from the Combo weight profile
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament or matchup data)
• 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 for going-first, going-second, matchups or brick rates One passcode (74677422) could not be resolved and is counted as Main Side Deck is empty, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional